As low-orbit satellite internet providers, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink, begin testing their services, security analysts recognize the potential disruption these systems could cause to authoritarian regimes as people start accessing an open and uncensored internet. In countries like Russia, China, and North Korea, where information dominance and control are essential to the regime’s survival, low-orbit internet satellites could pose a significant challenge.

Elon Musk said Friday that Starlink users should be able to move their satellite internet hardware between addresses by the end of the year.

After 16 years, one of the internet’s first – and most surreal – Q&A platforms is to be shut down

Recently published research finds that “online haters” or people who post hateful comments on online forums and social media demonstrate high levels of personality disorder traits associated with psychopathy.

The world’s most popular internet message board is thinking about going public. Reddit, the social network and online bulletin, said on Thursday that it had appointed its first chief financial officer, Drew Vollero, in a move toward tidying up the company’s books before an eventual public offering of its stock.

The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well

SpaceX wants to bring fast satellite broadband internet to the world -- and in particular, to internet users in far-flung, rural locations, where download speeds are low and prices are high.

In her new novel Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler paints a bleak portrait of a social media–addled world saturated with loneliness and alienation. It’s incredibly accurate. But there must be a way out of the nightmarish social landscape she depicts.

Use the Snap Camera app to apply a wide variety of fun filters to your Zoom meetings.

HBO's 'Fake Famous' features an experiment where three Instagram users try to boost their social media followings using tricks sometimes employed by top influencers.

The real coordinated inauthentic behavior on social media made itself abundantly clear in the aftermath of the assault on Congress. The culprit isn’t a troll farm or Russian influence. This time, the coordinated inauthentic behavior is coming from California.

What does the social web's growth mean for the open web?

Internet domain company GoDaddy used a holiday bonus notification to test employees on email phishing scams, after workers had already been told they would not receive a bonus this year. The email to all staff, obtained by NBC affiliate KPNX in Arizona, was sent on Dec. 14 and read: "Happy Holiday GoDaddy! 2020 has been a record year for GoDaddy, thanks to you!"

The internet should be treated like water, power, and phone lines: an essential utility

The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to sensors in cities and towns across the United States.

When did “the Internet” become “the internet”? Why did that happen, and how has it changed us?

In recent times, there is no shortage of Bitcoin proponents as the world’s number cryptocurrency is in the limelight once again as it eyes fresh highs above $20,000. However, one of the earliest, when it comes to advocating the flagship cryptocurrency, is the Winklevoss twins, who have once again praised bitcoin, predicting that its market cap will flip Gold’s.

The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

If you’re reading this, chances are you have some sort of a relationship with Google. Most of us rely on the search engine to look for information instead of storing it on our own brains (which experts say is making us stupid), heading to it for searching, surfing and sometimes even contributing to the endless databases.

Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.