A group of researchers are aiming to change the fundamental architecture of the internet: computers connecting to servers. The project is called Pursuit, and the goal is a completely new architecture that’s faster, more secu...
Back in August, Mark Zuckerberg announced an intention to provide Internet access to two thirds of the world that lacks online access. It’s a bold plan, but Bill Gates is not too keen on the idea after he criticized the plan on Fr...
Yesterday at Minecon, Mojang, who developed the incredibly popular Minecraft, and Twich, announced that players will be able to now stream Minecraft while they play. Minecraft will join a plethora of other games, such as League of...
If you thought that the social network giant that is Facebook knew too much about you already, then you probably won’t be happy about this latest development of Facebook looking to gather even more information about you. Des...
Amazon has created a new site called AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile operates and looks exactly the same way as Amazon except when you buy an item from AmazonSmile, 0.5% of it goes to the charity of your choice. “We’re offeri...
The classic BitTorrent site isoHunt was shut down earlier this month, with its owner Gary Fung having to pay $110 million dollars to copyright owners. However, it is now back under similar name of isoHunt.to, and it has been resto...
Sprint, 3rd largest mobile service provider in the USA, on Wednesday demonstrated the capability to hit 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) over-the-air speed at its lab near Silicon Valley, Calif. This is 17 times faster than the present...
Twitter has updated the way tweets look on the web and on its iOS and Android apps to be more visual and hopefully, more engaging. Essentially, the update means that tweets will now include previews for images and videos from Vine...
How many times have you been asked on the internet to prove that you are a human, prompted to retype letters or numbers, only to be unable to decipher them? This is a common practice on the internet and the technology used to make...
After the Edward Snowden leaks that brought to light what the NSA is up to, many countries are now quite apprehensive towards the United States. Things have gotten so bad that a German telecom, Deutsche Telekom, is rallying other ...
The website for U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), an institution now at the center of a huge international scandal for its espionage activities, was inaccessible Friday night, according to an agency spokesman. NSA is trying to ...
Virtual Private Networks, or VPN, is supposed to give you that added sense of security when you are online. When your route your internet browsing through a VPN server you encrypt the connection making it harder for hackers to obt...
By now everyone with a brain should know that piracy is a dangerous game. It’s fun when a person is able to download the latest movies and never having to pay to see it at the cinemas. However, all hell breaks loose when the autho...
Google may soon change the way ads look to make them more graphic and more visible. The online giant testing the use of large banner ads in search results for selected brands, despite a promise in 2005 that Google would never disp...
In a perfect world you could go about your internet- surfing business and daily routines openly and honestly and not have to worry about being unjustly monitored. But it isn’t a perfect world, and as recent revelations of NS...
