Dec 24
Italy will force Italian companies to buy web adverts from locally-registered companies as opposed to foreign firms potentially trying to avoid domestic taxes, in a new ruling already under fire … Continue reading
Dec 23
Reddit’s come a long way since it first appeared online in 2006—but how has it changed over time? This visualization shows how the relative sizes of its subreddits have changed.
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Dec 20
Toolbars are the bane of many who browse the web, particularly when they’re unwanted and stealthily applied to one’s browser. Once in place, toolbars can slow things down, not to … Continue reading
Dec 20
Department of Justice report details case against Kim Dotcom, former Megaupload leaders
Posted in: Today's ChiliKim Dotcom, the man behind Mega, the successor of the now-defunct Megaupload, has been the subject of a long-lived investigation, the details of which were revealed today in a 191-page … Continue reading
Dec 18
Are you ready for the Internet of Things? It’s coming. Soon enough everything in your home will be plugged in to the net. Your refrigerator will know when you’re out of milk, and order more via Amazon! There’s no stopping this advance in human civilization — but here are nine items that we absolutely never want to have online.
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Dec 18
The last mile issue has plagued ISPs since the advent of the Internet. While projects like Google Fiber can deliver massive bandwidth to your door, they require the installation of an entirely new network infrastructure. Not so with the new G.fast standard. It delivers fiber optic speeds over existing telephone lines.
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Dec 17
Sometimes it feels like the internet’s just the same thing over and over. Google agrees: According to the search giant, 25-30 percent of everything online actually is a duplicate of something else somewhere else online.
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Dec 17
Reddit may the front page of the internet, but it’s also home to all manner of weird and wonderful niche interest groups. This visualization reveals how they all relate to each other.
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Dec 17
It can get a little bit annoying when people ramble on about how Facebook and Google are taking over the world. They’re just websites! But when those websites start to buy up other things, say, the very cables that connect the people of the world—well that’s actually pretty alarming.
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Dec 17
Google has revealed its annual “Zeitgeist” wrap-up of the top searches of the year, bringing 2013 to a close with a run-down of the global trending searches that includes Nelson Mandela, the iPhone 5s, and the PlayStation 4. Continuing a summary tradition started back in 2001, Google Zeitgeist 2013 is also the broadest so-far, the […]
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