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Before joining CNET, all I cared about was my Wi-Fi. But when I joined the broadband team, I realized I’d thrown the term Wi-Fi around, but didn’t really understand it. What is it, and is it better than those ugly cables known as Ethernet? The answer is subjective, depending on your specific internet needs. …
The internet and social media face growing scrutiny over their potential negative effects on human behaviour, politics and society. This scrutiny makes it crucial to empirically determine the direct consequences of internet usage. However, not all studies convincingly overcome the methodological challenge of determining causation. Media coverage of these studies can also be misleading. Fabio Sabatini reviewed …
Hawaii’s Brian Schatz leads “a growing cohort of senators” pushing for social media age restrictions. U.S. senators on both sides of the aisle are uniting in a bitterly divided Congress to enhance online safety for children, and Hawaii’s Sen. Brian Schatz is leading the way. Schatz, a senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee, joined …
Kiara Advani is currently in the French Riviera town to attend the prestigious 77th Cannes Film Festival. The Bollywood star graced the Women In Cinema Gala organized by the Red Sea Film Festival in collaboration with Vanity Fair Europe. Since the global event began on May 14, fashion enthusiasts have eagerly awaited Kiara’s Cannes debut …
Image source, Getty Images Article information Author, Chris Vallance & Philippa Wain Role, Technology reporters 13 May 2024 Internet access and use is consistently associated with positive wellbeing, a new study of data from 168 countries by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) suggests. In many parts of the world, including the EU and UK, concerns …
The Federal Communications Commission is taking another step into the world of cybersecurity, teeing up a rule aimed at bolstering the security posture of a crucial worldwide data routing framework. The agency next month will vote on a proposal that would require the nine largest U.S. broadband providers to regularly file confidential documents to the …
New Delhi, May 19 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday arrived in Indonesia where he aims to launch his satellite-based internet service Starlink. Musk, who is visiting Indonesia for the first time, is scheduled to launch Starlink alongside the country’s President Joko Widodo. “I had the opportunity to pick up Elon at the …
The YouTube channel The Serial Port has found perhaps the last working copy of Archie, the first search engine on the web, created in 1989 by Alan Amtedge while studying at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It allowed searching FTP servers in what was then a very small network of universities, researchers, government and military …
DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Elon Musk arrived in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Sunday to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation. The billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social platform X arrived by private jet on the idyllic “island of the gods,” which is renowned for …
No company is quite so inseparable from the World Wide Web as Google, which made searching the internet an eponymous verb. The web made Google rich, too, but this week Google relegated it to a submenu. In a design of its next-generation home page that the company showed at its annual I/O developer conference this …