The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
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Who are the biggest consumers of online porn?
We teamed up with SimilarWeb to explore who are the biggest consumers of online porn by country. The results may surprise ...
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Why this funky 80s graphic generator is taking over Twitter
Oh Twitter, wonderful place on the internet. Sometimes you can be a cesspool of darkness, and sometimes you can be pretty ...
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Always get free airport Wi-Fi with these simple tricks
Airport Wi-Fi can be a tricky situation. It might be paid, hidden behind a password or hard to find. This is how you get ...
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7 ways to protect your privacy on the internet
Here are seven ways you can protect your personal information and privacy online
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The ways people described computers in the 1990s are hilarious
In the 1990s, the internet was a hard-to-explain concept to people. Even though it's commonplace now, the idea of electronic ...
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10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business
It’s time to stop flooding the internet with skipped vowels and incorrect spellings just to get a short domain name that ...
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7 most common data visualization mistakes
In dataviz, as in any other field, there are rules, best practices, guidelines and then there is common sense. And contrary ...
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This adblocker-blocker helps you get around sites that ban you for hiding ads ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Blocking the adblockers is becoming more common, but now there's a way to fight back.
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This sex-positive dating app connects people through their fantasies
As with, well, everything really, the internet has changed the dating game. Just think how ubiquitous the phrase “swipe ...
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Reddit rolls out subreddit chatrooms – what could possibly go wrong?
Social media giant Reddit has begun rolling out a new chatroom feature across its site with an aim to increase user engagement. ...
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Justin Sun now owns BitTorrent, the first of his Infinity stones
Justin Sun's acquisition of BitTorrent has been finalized, effectively bringing 100 million new users to the Tron (TRX) decentralized ...
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Etherscan rushes to plug vulnerabilities following strange hacking attempts overnight
The most widely used Ethereum blockchain explorer, Etherscan, quickly patched vulnerabilities overnight after a set of strange ...
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YouTube offers an imperfect solution to Facebook's Alex Jones problem
Facebook gives Alex Jones a voice, YouTube understands the damage he might do with it. Its solution to the Jones problem ...
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Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It's about damn time. Just ...
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What online activists need to know about going viral
Inspiring stories of social activism, such as the Civil Rights movement and the fight against climate change, abound in history. ...
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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR
GDPR -- no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about it, you might wonder why you should read this one. It’s simple, really, you shouldn’t unless you are one of the 92 percent of marketers who according ...
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Open thread: Should Twitter users automatically delete old tweets?
After multiple baseball players were forced to apologize this month for old tweets containing racist and homophobic slurs, ...
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Uganda is trying to ban internet porn
It appears that Ugandan authorities are tightening their grip on how the Internet is accessed and used in the east Afrikan ...
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Parents are shelling out $20/hour for Fortnite tutors and the internet is losing its goddamn mind
In what surely constitutes a sign of the coming apocalypse, parents are shelling out up to $20 an hour for coaches to help ...
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I tested this kid-friendly phone to see if it could protect me from pervs
Being a kid in today's world is tough. When I had a rough time at school, it generally stayed there. Yeah, there were chatrooms, ...
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200,000 routers in Brazil were secretly hijacked to mine cryptocurrency
Brazil has been hit by an elaborate cryptocurrency mining attack that infected hundreds of thousands of routers across the ...
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Millions of webstores can now accept cryptocurrency through Coinbase
The new plugin enables WooCommerce webstores to accept cryptocurrencies through a user-controlled Coinbase wallet without ...
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GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it
It's been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise ...
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Bug in cryptocurrency platform Augur meant users could be duped into losing money
A massive vulnerability has been discovered in the decentralized betting platform Augur, which allowed all data shown in ...
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Blockchain bug hunters feature prominently at this year's Pwnie Awards
Three researchers are up for Pwnie Awards this year after exposing critical bugs in popular blockchain projects IOTA and ...
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Decentralized Wikipedia rival ditches Ethereum to launch on the EOS blockchain
Everipedia is the decentralized internet's new encyclopaedia, now live on EOS - despite developers admitting its blockchain ...
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Censorship in China
China’s internet has always been heavily censored by its government. The Great Firewall is part of the People’s Republic ...
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Over 50k people have blocked Twitter's biggest advertisers over the Alex Jones debacle (and you can too)
Alex Jones can't win these days. As the unofficial mascot of conspiracy theorists everywhere, Jones -- the man who answers ...
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Securing web sites with HTTPS made them less accessible
In the middle of last month — July 2018, I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia ...
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Censorship machines removed my article warning people about censorship machines
A few days ago, about a dozen articles and campaign sites criticizing EU plans for copyright censorship machines silently ...
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SurfSafe offers a browser-based solution to fake news
In the aftermath of a school shooting that claimed the lives of 14 students and three staff members, students like Emma González, ...
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Apple's move to shake up the newspaper industry offers little upside
Apple is making a play at the publishing business. In March, the company acquired Texture, a subscription-based magazine ...
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EU’s decision on Copyright Reform tomorrow could be a turning point for the web
The EU Parliament is having a final vote on Copyright Reform on September 12. The decision will greatly affect the final ...
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How Cuban innovators are bringing the country out of digital isolation
Fifty years is a long time, and especially so under imposed isolation. Cuba’s economic freeze from the international community ...
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Bans aren’t the answer to problematic social media accounts
Popular social channels have banned alt-right conspiracy theorist and hate speech-advocates but this isn't the answer to ...
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This Peruvian app is the Waze of preventing street crime
A Peruivan app is helping tackle its street crime issue. Reach, markets itself as a Waze for street crime alerts users through ...
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Facebook is using your personal data, here’s why it’s fine
When the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, it did more than just shake up Facebook, it stirred the conversation about ...
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The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it
The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times ...
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The dangers of mispredicting a volcanic eruption
Many news outlets incorrectly suggested that Katla, an Icelandic volcano, is ready to erupt at any time. Science has confirmed ...
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This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo's first year
The #MeToo movement is one year old and Me Too Rising, a Google product, visualizes the movement's global effect from October ...
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This Day in Deals: Discounted laptops in honor of a brilliant computer scientist
This Day In Deals is our new section where we share a historical fact and the day’s best deal – and try to connect them. ...
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Fake e-cigarette liquid is putting vapers at risk — scanning technology could prevent it
The technology created to prevent the distribution of fake e-cigarette liquid works by firing near-infrared light at a sample. ...
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How to perfect your digital copywriting
Does anyone actually know what it means to be a copywriter in the digital age? Each and every day, a wave of ecommerce shoppers, ...
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Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet broke my damned heart
Disney's just-released sequel to Wreck-It Ralph doesn't use the digital metaphor it constructs to say anything worth hearing. ...
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Your startup can’t beat Goliaths with tech — you’ll need empathy and vision
If you’ve decided to disrupt – to look at old and unfriendly ways of doing things – then you picked a fight with the ...
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South Korea will trial a blockchain-based voting system
South Korea is pushing ahead with a trial of a blockchain-based voting system. If successful the system may be rolled out ...
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I communicate with my parents via email... is that weird?
Parents are weird — you love them, but also want them as physically far from you as possible. Until you miss them, or want ...
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The internet is toxic because humans are toxic
No matter how well we code, no matter how convincingly we simulate and augment reality, there's no software that can make ...
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Why your phone's notifications are the way they are
The notification bell that was once used to keep us in the loop is now mostly used to bring us back into the loop instead. ...
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November in Africa: Spotify expands and drones protect wildlife
Too often in these monthly wraps we look at the negative side of tech in Africa, usually what governments are doing to milk the sector for all it is worth. Last month, however, we saw the potential for tech on the continent, and how if it is employed in the right way it can have ...
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Tumblr's porn ban slams the door on women and other marginalized communities
After graphic images of child sex abuse appeared on Tumblr in November, the app was quickly removed from Apple's App store ...
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Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content
After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet ...
