Re-experience '90s internet with this new 56K dial-up modem
Now if only you could find an analog public line in 2024
What Ever Happened to Netscape?
It was a magical time, PC sales were just booming and if you were lucky, yours would come with a modem for dial-up Internet access. You would hear the scrambling sound of your phone line connecting you to the world. Launching Netscape and staring at the throbber animation while a single web page loaded.
Intelsat's Boeing-made satellite breaks up in space, disrupting communication services
It wasn't even insured
The Zero Click Internet
The internet is undergoing the biggest change since its inception. It's huge. And there is no going back. The web is changing into the Zero Click Internet, and it will change everything.
NASA laser-based data transmission demonstrates serviceable internet 290 million miles from Earth
Scrolling Instagram should be a piece of cake for future Mars colonists
HaLow protocol establishes new Wi-Fi range record of 9.9 miles
More than five times the previous 1.8-mile record
Russia is willing to spend some $660 million to bolster internet censorship
The system mainly targets VPN services that Russians use to access the internet
White House declares BGP security issues a national priority – BGP handles routing for the entire internet
The "glue" protocol that sticks internet's networks together
A Dangerous Network: The Border Gateway Protocol has been the primary routing technology for the internet for at least three decades. Like other fundamental internet protocols developed in the 1980s, BGP was not originally designed with security in mind – and it shows.
UK scientists achieve unprecedented 402 Tbps data transmission over optical fiber
They broke their own 319 Tbps record set in March
What just happened? A few months ago, scientists at Aston University in the UK broke a world record for data transmission speed. They have now surpassed their previous work, achieving a new benchmark. The team accomplished this feat by constructing the first optical transmission system that uses six wavelength bands. The development could revolutionize internet connectivity, enabling faster data transfers at cheaper price points – provided that ISPs pass on the savings to customers.
NASA streams 4K video from aircraft to space (and back) at blistering speeds using laser tech
900 Mbps is faster than what the average US household enjoys
Which country has the highest percentage of their population online?
Hint: there is one country that has a 99.9% Internet penetration.
Google achieves 50 Gbps fiber speeds on a live network
The search giant argues you'll need these blistering speeds sooner or later
What just happened? In a recent field test conducted jointly with Nokia, Google's experimental fiber broadband arm GFiber Labs achieved a mind-boggling 41.89 gigabits per second download speed on a live Google Fiber network in Kansas City.
TP-Link launches $600 Archer GE800, its first Wi-Fi 7 gaming router
The Wi-Fi 7 router to go for if visible antennas are not your thing
Blistering 402 Tb/s fiber optic speeds achieved by unlocking unused wavelengths
Amid 6G promises, scientists find a way to wring incredible speeds out of boring old fiber
What just happened? Scientists in Japan have just blown the doors off what we thought was possible with conventional fiber optic cables. A team led by the country's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has set a new world record by transmitting data at a blistering 402 terabits per second through an existing fiber optic line. That's fast enough to download over 50,000 HD movies in a single second.
Critical vulnerability in file transfer software Moveit could result in a new security disaster
The flaw can be easily abused, and mass exploitation is extremely likely
T-Mobile's Home Internet Backup keeps ISP customers connected during outages
An alternative for your phone's hotspot during service blips
FCC ends high-speed internet subsidies as funds expire
Millions of low-income Americans could see rising internet costs
Vanishing act: A quarter of all web pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 are gone
Father Time is undefeated
FCC reinstates Net Neutrality in the US to ensure a level playing field for all internet users
Net neutrality was repealed in 2017
Google to spend $1 billion to lay two new cables on the Pacific seabed
Improving connectivity and bringing new business opportunities to the Pacific region
Fiber optic researchers showcase speeds 4.5 million times faster than average home broadband
The breakthrough could provide an affordable path to upgrade existing fiber networks
The big picture: The ability to move massive amounts of data as quickly as possible continues to become more critical to our everyday lives. Earlier this month, researchers published the results of an experiment that could help increase transmission speeds exponentially using existing fiber optic infrastructure.
SpaceX launches first satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities
SpaceX partnered with T-Mobile in the US
Internet usage study shows we spent over 1.3 trillion hours online in 2023
This year, Taylor Swift streamed 69.4 million songs per minute, and ChatGPT answered 3.6 billion queries
A new internet standard called L4S aims to lower latency, bring more speed to the web
Low latency, low loss, and scalable throughput
World record set for fiber optic speed transfer at 22.9 petabits per second
A major step toward future ultra-large-capacity optical communication networks