Despite a major pop in internet traffic thanks to the pandemic, ISPs, CDNs, and cloud providers all proved up to the traffic challenge.

Thanks to the coronavirus, we reply on the internet more than ever. By and large, it's held up well, but some underserved areas are suffering more than ever. What is and can be done for internet access beyond the cities?

A teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father, Errol Musk, had a casual attitude towards the family’s considerable wealth, including the stones that came from the Zambian emerald mine in which Errol owned a half share.

Everyone says their latest web browser is the fastest one ever. They can't all be right. I took them to the test bench. Here's what I found.

It will "usher in a new era of communications," the Department of Energy says.

Background: There is uncertainty about the impact of internet use on mental health in older adults. Moreover, there is very little known specifically about the impact of particular purposes of internet use.

If you're finding it hard to get a job as a Disabled person, here are some freelance remote job platforms that offer such opportunities.

Four new technologies—low-band 5G; Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite Internet; DOCSIS 3.1, and G.fast—will soon provide faster speeds than ever before. @Enterprisenxt

On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly.

It was just another Friday, until the internet stopped working for tens of millions of people.

Tech companies have long gotten in the way of their own employees' fight for justice, and the evergreen search for profit could be to blame.

If you have good social skills and like to make a lot of friends then here are some fun ways to earn money by offering friendship online.

Outlook, like Windows 10, has been plagued by one update problem after another. Come on Microsoft, can't you do better!?

However, it will still be up to patent holders to decide how the technology is licensed. The cost could potentially run into hundreds and millions of dollars. This steep costing poses the obvious problem of inflating the cost of the end product/service, making it more difficult to break even as a company. For projects like Mozilla Firefox, this is simply out of the equation because of ideological, economical, and practical reasons.

What if you saw the Internet's most-read stories all at once. This infographic shows what the internet thinks about based on the most popular media.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to offer high-speed internet to Canadians living in remote areas by beaming it to them via satellites.

Thanks to its latest launch, SpaceX now has over 500 Starlink internet satellites in orbit. With this advance, the company is now inviting people to apply to become Starlink beta testers.

The internet eased lockdown life for millions. But millions more still can’t get online, and that’s fundamentally unfair, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Good documentary on the birth of the Apache web server and all the other open-source programs, which then sprang from their efforts.

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