How do Wi-Fi and hotspots work?
You have high-frequency radio waves to thank for your wireless internet access.
If you're reading this article on your smartphone or laptop, it’s more than likely you’re connected to a wireless rou...
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Archiving the World Wide Web
Ever since the internet’s “big-bang” moment, archivists have struggled to keep up with its burgeo...
Twenty-eight years ago this month, I got onto the World Wide Web. First among my friends – and among the first few th...
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History
Ray Tomlinson sends a message
The brain behind using name@host for email use.
Nearly 50 years ago – sometime during the northern summer or autumn of 1971 – Ray Tomlinson sent the first network em...
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Can entanglement make communication safer?
Researchers improve quantum networks without nodes.
Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a secure internet after unveiling a prototype of what they believ...
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World internet speed record shattered
And from a single optical chip.
More so now than ever before, we're relying on the internet to keep us working, studying and entertained from the saf...
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Do you know where your online data is?
Our online data is taken freely and willingly.
With our personal data constantly gathered and analysed, it’s the grim reality that the internet knows you better tha...
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Psychotherapy may help with gaming addiction
study takes a new approach to dealing with a modern disease.
A European study has found a type of psychotherapy developed for people with substance abuse is remarkably effective ...
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Online, being polite is appreciated
Keeping things civil in Q&A forums brings its own reward.
People want you to be civil when answering their questions online, but third-party observers aren’t so fussed.That’...
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The dark web weapons trade
Sales favour handguns rather than exotic firearms.
The dark web is being used to buy conventional firearms rather than weapons of war, and at legal-market prices, new U...
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95% of children’s free apps contain advertising
Study raises concerns over marketers’ persuasive influence on children under five. Nick Carne rep...
Advertising is worryingly ubiquitous in apps marketed to and played by children aged five and even younger, according...
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Russian trolls, bots, stoke US vaxxer conflict
Actors use pro and anti vax messages to sow political discord.
Russian online users known as trolls are taking to social media to sow public conflict about vaccination, according t...
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Extremism and curdled milk are more similar than you might imagine
Physicists find that internet hate groups can be described using a theory that predicts the forma...
The same theory that explains milk going off can be used to model the rise of extremism and hate on the internet, phy...