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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Vladmir Putin is extricating Russia from the world-wide-web
Tonight, if you live in Russia, it's time to party like it's not yet 1989. Soviet KGB agent President Vladmir Putin is ...
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This YUGE font generator lets you write like Trump
Someone's made a font generator that lets you write whatever you want in US President Donald Trump's unorthodox hadwriting. ...
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Bill v Bowie: How (not) to sell a tech idea
The year is 1995. Bill Gates explains to a skeptic David Letterman on his late-night show why the Internet is “the new ...
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Russia to pre-install its own apps on all phones, PCs, and TVs sold in the country
Russia has officially passed a law banning the sale of electronic equiment that are not pre-installed with Russian software. ...
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Google finally takes a stance on political ads with microtargeting restrictions
Google has announced a crack down on political ads that limits advertisers from targeting ads based on voters' political ...
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Iran shut down citizens' internet access following protests over fuel pricing
Over the weekend, Iranians had slowing internet until finally the country’s internet access was almost completely shut ...
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Here’s why the internet will always have enough space for all our devices
It seems that every five years, news emerges that the digital sky is falling in. Back in 2010 and 2015, rumors spread that ...
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We reviewed the hate tweets that 'dark mode' fans sent us
We wrote an unpopular opinion article about dark mode that was, well, unpopular. So we reviewed some of the hate tweets we ...
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Study: Social media to blame for declining internet freedom this decade — it's down to US to fix
A new study published by Freedom House has blamed social media as a whole for the reason of declining internet freedom in ...
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey backs cryptocurrency startup after turning down Facebook’s Libra
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently said his company would never get involved with Facebook's Libra, has backed ...
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Facebook defends Libra comparing it to some of the 'most meaningful innovations' of our time — lol
Facebook’s Libra lead has defended the technology giant’s ‘cryptocurrency’ project at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.
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CHEAP: Toughen up your data with a 1TB SanDisk External SSD for $179
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Imagine this, you're on a trek, ...
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CHEAP: Yes please, I will take $200 off the 512GB Samsung Galaxy S10
The 512GB Samsung Galaxy S10 is a great phone. It can do almost anything you'd want a mobile to achieve, and it's currently ...
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CHEAP: 12 months of Xbox Live Gold membership for $50? Press F to pay respects
Look, playing online is part of the video game experience, and that's just got a lot easier with this sick reduction on a ...
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Facebook now blocks Pirate Bay links — but you can still bypass the ban
Welp, Facebook no longer lets you share links from The Pirate Bay with your friends — but you can still share proxy ...
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91% of Russians would rather pirate than pay for content, survey shows
A new survey reveals that only 9 percent of Russians prefer to stick to exclusively legal content, while the rest are cool ...
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Some Tesla owners reportedly got locked out of their cars because the app was down
Connected things are wonderful until they fail on you. Numerous Tesla owners allegedly experienced this today as they got ...
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Dark web dealer made to forfeit millions in cryptocurrency gets 70 months in the slammer
A drug dealer ordered to forfeit millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for distributing ...
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Kink in porn site exposes the personal data of over 1M users
A kink in adult site Luscious, which focuses on pornographic images and animations, allowed hackers to access the personal ...
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The Trump administration drafted an executive order to censor the internet
CNN has obtained a draft of an executive order that could potentially censor huge portions of the internet. In an attempt ...
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Kazakhstan begins intercepting citizens' web traffic to 'protect them from cyber threats' (Update: It's canceled)
The Kazakhstan government has started to intercept all HTTPS traffic from all devices within its borders effective July 17, ...
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The 'feral hog' meme encapsulates the best side of the internet
The feral hog meme came out of nowhere, but means a bit more than many of the short-lived jokes beloved by the Very Online ...
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How to find something to watch on Netflix, without endless scrolling
Sure, Netflix is super popular. But it's not always easy to find something worth watching. Here are some top tips to help ...
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The future of the internet is… streetlights?
Despite its apparent omnipresence, the internet is only available to around half of the world’s population. Whatever estimate ...
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We've surrounded the Earth with surveillance satellites, but who is that good for?
It was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they ...
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BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project
Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian ...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘new rules’ for the internet happen to benefit Facebook
Facebook has outlined how it intends to clean up its content, making much of the fact that it has expunged 3.3 billion fake ...
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Here's how to set up your computer to work productively from home
Here are a few tips and tricks to help you set up your computer to work productively from home.
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Google wants to make the 25-year-old robots.txt protocol an internet standard
Google has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — into an internet standard ...
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The Wayback Machine can now highlight changes in copy on websites
The Wayback Machine has a new feature called "Changes" that lets you compare two different archives of a URL, giving a side-by-side ...
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EU lawmakers need to look beyond the ‘top layer’ when regulating the internet
Brussels policy makers could be forgiven for wanting to move quickly to regulate ‘the internet.’ Assailed by an avalanche ...
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WATCH: Craig Wright briefly forgets he 'invented' Bitcoin
Craig Wright remembers something he read in the Bitcoin white paper. He probably remembers it from when he wrote it, of course. ...
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Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest
Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Liberia have restricted Internet access in the country ...
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China and India account for most internet users: 2019 internet trends report
Mary Meeker published her 333-slide Internet Trends report Tuesday ahead of a presentation at Recode's Code Conference in ...
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The Splinternet is here and your company needs to be ready
We are entering a new era, a battleground of sorts between nations, that some government and industry watchers have termed ...
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SpaceX successfully launches 60 of its Starlink internet satellites
After a few delays, SpaceX finally launched the first 60 satellites under its ambitious Starlink project today. rocket Falcon ...
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Meet Karen Wickre, the editor who helped Twitter and Google find their voice
We often think of tech companies as faceless platforms; social networks where we imprint our personalities, empty documents ...
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This AI-powered bot is learning how to tweet like Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin
Meet Vitalik Boterin, a new form of artificial intelligence that mimics Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with alarming ...
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Why Snapchat’s new gender swap feature is problematic for many trans people
You’ve probably seen it all over your social media timelines and stories this week — friends using Snapchat’s new gender-bending ...
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Skype didn't deliver on P2P's promise, but Estonia has
Skype was one of the bright lights of the P2P internet era, but failed to live up to its promise. It did make a difference ...
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Buzzfeed's VP of AI: Surveillance is more than collecting data
Companies all over the world gather a lot of data customers without thinking of the impact it might have on people in the ...
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What's behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?
Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the ...
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The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
When I was twelve years old, I became obsessed with a screen saver. The screen saver pictured above, to be precise; you ...
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EU proposal requires platforms to delete ‘terrorist content’ in 1 hour or face fines
The EU's proposed terrorism regulation could lead unwanted censorships and will be tough for smaller platforms, risking further ...
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Danish hustler jailed for laundering $500,000 worth of dirty Bitcoin
Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you might think. A Danish man has been handed a prison sentence after using the digital currency ...
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Tech companies still care more about AI and IoT than blockchain
Blockchain might be the hot buzzword of the moment, but according to new research, it's being bested by the Internet-of-Things ...
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Here’s why Cuba has painfully slow Internet – and what Google’s doing to fix it
It's all about the cables.
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Here's how much 'Bitcoin Twitter' loves presidential candidate Andrew Yang
Cryptocurrency fans have a favorite presidential candidate. They believe his plan to gift $1,000 to US citizens every month ...
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'Flat Earthers' are embarking on a bizarre journey to Antarctica to prove that YouTube makes you stupid
A group of Flat Earthers are prepared to set sail on a bizarre journey to the Antarctic to prove, once and for all, that ...
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Why you should care about public computers disappearing from libraries
We lose public computers at our own peril.
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Tech companies need to do more to fight child abuse content
YouTube has, yet again, failed to protect children online. Recent investigations by Wired and video blogger Matt Watson have ...
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Wallpapers cleverly hiding Samsung Galaxy S10's camera cutout are my favorite thing online
Redditors are creating clever wallpapers to hide Samsung Galaxy S10's camera cutout and posting it on a subreddit. They're ...
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People are slapping their babies with cheese because internet
Very often on the internet, you see videos where you want to laugh, but know you shouldn't. Or you suddenly do laugh, and ...
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Digital trends 2019: Every single stat you need to know about the internet
We Are Social and Hootsuite’s latest collection of Global Digital reports reveals that internet users are growing by an ...
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We need to reclaim an open internet — tech founders should lead the charge
Back in 1989, when British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee laid the foundation for what would become the internet, he ...
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Sorry, I’m too busy planning our smart home to help pack
A smart outlet review from a guy who is shopping for smart gadgets on the internet instead of helping his family pack for ...
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Shutting down the internet doesn't work, but governments keep doing it anyway
As the internet continues to gain considerable power and agency around the world, many governments have moved to regulate ...
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Something magical happens if you google Rihanna and your birthday
Seriously. Do it. Go to Google.com, type in “Rihanna (your DOB),” you’ll get… a picture of Rihanna taken on the ...
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A nostalgic look back at digital music piracy in the 2000s
A couple of decades ago - well before a $10 monthly fee would unlock access to virtually every song ever recorded through ...
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Why storing your Bitcoin private keys on Google Drive is a terrible idea
The Coinbase Wallet has a new feature that encourages users to back up their cryptocurrency private keys to Google Drive ...
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Meet the man archiving the internet
Back in 1996 when the internet was primitive, a couple of San Francisco-based engineers were looking to solve the problem ...
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The fastest growing internet market isn't the one you think
For a country that few people know exists, Western Sahara has had a uniquely tumultuous history. Its modern history starts, ...
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Study shows we're spending an insane amount of time online
On average, each of us spends 100 days of each year online.
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Only half of humanity is online, how do we connect the rest?
Internet connectivity is coming to be regarded worldwide as no less than essential infrastructure, and yet it's estimated ...
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Why does Google show mysterious art when searching two random 4-letter words!
If you type in two strings of random 4-letter words (like "fjdu apld"), Google Images shows some mysterious art. We tried ...
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The internet has made sports betting easier, so Uganda is banning it
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda has issued a directive that states new gambling licenses will no longer be issued ...
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Zimbabwe blocked internet access, so Anonymous DDoS'd the government’s websites
For several days, starting on Monday 14 January 2019, Zimbabweans have been without Internet access. This is as a result ...
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Ryuk ransomware earns hackers $3.7M in Bitcoin over 5 months
A squad of cybersecurity firms have tracked a ransomware threat known as Ryuk, which has collected over 705 BTC in just ...
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The strange zen of the data diet
Too much of a good thing can be bad.
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Here's why the DRC cut off their internet in the run-up to the elections
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cut off internet access in the run-up to elections during December ...
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There's more to Bitcoin maximalism than meets the eye
What exactly is Bitcoin maximalism? In this article, Hard Fork takes a look at what Bitcoin maximalism is, and what it means ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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. And it is generally thought that the new social media era has helped cases of activism to succeed. But our research has revealed some major threats which ...
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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 this week, Jones ran afoul of YouTube guidelines, getting himself a slap on the wrist and finding four of his more egregious videos deleted. We wondered why ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
