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Roughly 99 per cent of international internet traffic runs through about 550 undersea cables — and a handful of private companies including Google, Meta and Amazon now own or lease a growing share of them

Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon own, co-own or buy capacity on a growing share of the 600-plus submarine cable systems carrying over 99 per cent of data between countries, a private map hidden below the wireless internet

Wi-Fi doesn't actually slow down when a café gets crowded — the signal is fine, but every device has to wait its turn to speak on the same frequency, and the polite queuing is what you feel as lag

Wi-Fi doesn’t actually slow down when a café gets crowded — the signal is fine, but every device has to wait its turn to speak on the same frequency, and the polite queuing is what you feel as lag

In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the size of the internet — within hours it had crashed roughly 6,000 of the 60,000 machines then online, and computer security became a field

In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the size of the internet — within hours it had crashed roughly 6,000 of the 60,000 machines then online, and computer security became a field

In July 2026, Psy’s Gangnam Style passed six billion YouTube views, fourteen years after its horse-riding dance became the platform’s first billion-view video and long after engineers had replaced a counter designed to stop at 2,147,483,647

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Productivity

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WinX DVD Ripper: Quickly Rip and Digitize DVDs

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I Just Replaced Adobe Illustrator With This Browser Based Alternative

Turn Website Into Desktop App

Use Pake to Turn Websites Into Desktop Apps — No Bloat, No Browser Dependency

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VideoProc Converter AI: Easy 1-Stop AI Video, Image, Audio Tool

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Stop Using Capcut! This Secret Open-Source Browser App Is a Video-Editing Beast

Social Media

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How to Use WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp Desktop in 2026

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Discord Botched Age Verification – Here’s How They’re Fixing It

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How to Download Videos from X (Formerly Twitter)

How To Fix Snapchat’s Most Annoying Audio Glitches

Snapchat Audio Driving You Crazy? Here’s the Rapid Fix

Hide Telegram Chats Featured

How to Hide Telegram Chats Without Permanently Deleting Them

Gaming

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When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was considered adaptable for missile guidance, briefly forcing anyone exporting more than one console to seek government approval

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell 155 million units and reshape gaming?

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell over 100 million units and reshape gaming?

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Sony’s PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly imported over 4,000 of the gaming consoles — sparking an intense military investigation over fears that the systems would be chained together to build a crude, low-cost supercomputer capable of guiding long-range missiles

The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn’t actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes the game’s internal counter to glitch out at Level 256, violently corrupting the right half of the screen into a chaotic mess of random symbols and rendering the final stage completely unplayable.

Gadgets

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When you tilt a smartphone, gravity shifts microscopic silicon fingers inside its accelerometer by only a few nanometres, changing the capacitance between them and producing the electrical imbalance the phone reads as a new direction for down

The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than clocks on the ground — without Einstein's relativity correcting for it, GPS would drift by roughly 10 kilometres every 24 hours

The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than clocks on the ground — without Einstein’s relativity correcting for it, GPS would drift by roughly 10 kilometres every 24 hours

Apple has quietly become the largest watchmaker in the world by unit sales, shipping more than twice as many watches as the entire Swiss industry combined — but the Swiss industry, which dismissed the Apple Watch in 2015, has discovered something more interesting: they’ve held onto the high end, and Rolex alone is now closing in on Apple Watch by revenue

Why You Need A Travel Router For Public Wi Fi (and How To Set It Up)

Why a Travel Router is the Best Investment for Your Next Trip

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9 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Tablets and Put Them to Good Use

MTE Explains: What Is the US Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights?

The US government is intending to introduce new laws to protect the privacy of individuals on the Internet. Here is what you need to know about this proposal.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 2, 2015

Easily Add Custom Icons to Your Theme Menu in WordPress

Ever wanted to add custom menu icons to your WordPress theme and improve the aesthetics of your website? You can easily do so with the Menu Icons plugin.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 26, 2015

How the Internet of Things and Smart Homes Make Hacking More Interesting

While everyone is excited about the conveniences of Internet of Things, few have looked how the security landscape will become as a consequence.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 23, 2015

How to Disable Third-Party Cookies in Chrome and Firefox

To prevent third-party cookies from tracking your online activity, you can disable third-party cookies in Firefox and Chrome. Here’s how you can do it.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 23, 2015

Is It Even Possible to Have Two Internets?

Most people are used to “the Internet,” but what if one day we would have to use “internets” to describe what we’re connecting to? Is that even possible?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 20, 2015

Add Convenient Download Options to Firefox

With this simple tweak, you can add two new options – “Open” and “Run” to Firefox’s Download Manager. Let’s check it out.

By Paul Ferson – Feb 18, 2015

How to Copy Link Address Without Right-Clicking in Chrome

Fancy a faster way to copy a link in the browser? Copy Link Address allows you to simply hover over a link and press “Ctrl + C” to copy the address.

By Kim Barloso – Feb 14, 2015

How HTTP 2.0 Will Change The Face of The Internet

With the new HTTP/2, let’s find out what this new protocol version does, how it can improve the loading speed of webpages and how you can benefit from it.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 13, 2015

Bttn: Control Internet-Enabled Devices and Web Services With a Single Button - Review & Giveaway

Bttn: Control Internet-Enabled Devices and Web Services with a Single Button

What if you could press a single button and have it do anything you wanted? Now you can with the Bttn. Come read more about it and win one of your own!

By Charnita Fance – Feb 13, 2015

Add Windows Calculator to Excel Quick Access Toolbar

If you are using the built-in Calculator and Microsoft Excel regularly, why not add the calculator to Excel for quick access? Here’s how you can do it.

By Sridhar Belide – Feb 13, 2015

How to Close and Snooze Tabs in Chrome to Reduce the Clutter

It’s common to have multiple tabs open in a web browser. Here is how you can close and snooze tabs in Chrome to free up space in your web browser.

By Himanshu Arora – Feb 12, 2015

Manage Saved Passwords

How to Manage Saved Passwords in Various Web Browsers

Most modern browsers come with a password manager for us to save our passwords. This article will take you through the steps to manage your saved passwords in various browsers.

By Sridhar Belide – Feb 12, 2015

5 Chrome Apps to Maximize Your Productivity

There are many productivity apps that can help us become more efficient. The following apps make use of Google services and are particularly handy as Chrome apps. Check them out.

By Ivana Isadora Devcic – Feb 11, 2015

Just How Secure Is Your Bank Account?

You probably have an online banking account. What if someone decided to hack into your account and steal from it? How secure do you think your bank account is?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 9, 2015

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5 Stellar Features of the New Microsoft Outlook App

Microsoft recently updated the Outlook app for iOS and Android. Can the major revamp entice you to switch from your stock email client? Let’s check it out.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Feb 5, 2015

Test Your Website in Various Mobile Devices Without Physically Owning the Devices

Google Chrome comes with a nifty tool that allows you to test how your website render in various mobile device. Here is how you can use the device mode in Chrome.

By Damien Oh – Feb 4, 2015

Why Websites Go Down, And What They Do About It

Have you ever wondered what large companies do to ensure that their websites stay up, and why websites sometimes go belly-up for a few hours? It’s time to speak about both of these things!

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 2, 2015

How to Convert Images to Text (OCR) With Google Drive

Rather than using an expensive OCR software, you can now use Google Drive to convert image to text. Here’s how you can do so.

By Damien Oh – Feb 2, 2015

How to Add Emails to Google Tasks Within Gmail

If you use Gmail in Google Chrome, here’s a handy extension that allows you to see your Google Tasks along with your Gmail inbox.

By Kim Barloso – Jan 28, 2015

8 Common Browser Error Messages That You Should Know

While surfing the web, you probably have come across error codes like 404, 502, etc. Here are some of the most common browser errors that you should know.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jan 27, 2015

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