Instagram is ready to compete head on with YouTube. Today at a flashy event in San Francisco, the company is announcing it will begin allowing users to upload videos up to 1 hour in length, up from the previous 1 minute limit.

A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?

Alongside Dachau and Japanese internment camps.

The renowned purveyor of peer-to-peer sharing software such as BitTorrent and μTorrent has been sold to blockchain entrepreneur Justin Sun's Tron, allegedly for a dazzling $140 million price.

Web-savvy crime syndicates are figuring out ways to bilk billions from U.S. businesses using a combination of Internet research, computer malware and emotional manipulation.

Net Neutrality rules that required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content are no longer in effect as of Monday.

Overhaul would bring chilling effects, costs, and legal uncertainty along for the ride.

The wonder of the web is that it is not subject to the whims of chaotic corporate management.

A journalist argues the new climate has led to people without things like unemployment insurance, retirement savings and a feeling of security.

Melbourne man Milorad “Michael” Trkulja has won his high court battle to sue the search engine Google for defamation over images and search results that link him to the Melbourne criminal underworld. Trkulja said he would continue legal action against Google until it removed his name and photos from the internet.

For almost 25 years, Shane Smith’s plan was that, by the time the suckers caught on, he’d never be stuck owning the company he co-founded.

Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside.

On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Nick Bilton sits down with technologist Tom Conrad to discuss the murky ethics of the dark Web.

Why is standing out so dang hard to do? Because we're afraid.

Its algorithm is still punishing LGBT creators

The chaotic message board is the soul of the internet, the deep source of its sights and sounds—for worse and, occasionally, for better.

Yelp reviewers, beware. A Manhattan woman who gave one-star reviews on Yelp and ZocDoc to a Kips Bay gynecologist has spent nearly $20,000 defending herself against a defamation suit.

Facebook really doesn’t want to be a media company. The social network announced this morning it’s removing its often controversial “Trending” section from its site next week, in order to make way for “future news experiences,” it says.

‘This is all I’ve ever wanted. Why am I so unhappy?’

‘A lot of the bullying on social media and the grooming is because those people know you cannot identify them’

Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn’t go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.

A sweeping new data privacy law has gone into effect in Europe, and California may soon follow with its own protections. Backers say the state's move could prompt such standards across the U.S.

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.

An obscure but increasingly important browser privacy feature in Firefox is getting a big promotion. Mozilla developers accepted an update to the Firefox Nightly test version on Wednesday that makes tracking protection easier to discover, easier to use and more nuanced. Tracking protection blocks website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows your online behavior -- something that's useful for targeting ads to specific people but that can invade privacy.

A great bot can be about as useful as an average app. When it comes to rich, sophisticated, multi-layered apps, there's no competition. Today's most successful bot experiences take a hybrid approach, incorporating chat into a broader strategy that encompasses more traditional elements.

Another week, another paywall. This time, it’s Bloomberg, which announced that it would be adding a comprehensive paywall to its news service and television channel (except TicToc, its media partnership with Twitter). A paywall was hardly a surprise, but what was surprising was the price: the standard subscription is $35 a month (up from $0 a month), or $40 a month including access to online and print editions of Businessweek

It’s polarizing our politics, making us ignore inconvenient facts and impeding real activism.

Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information.

StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to take content discovery to the next level.”

“Open internet” does not mean what Ajit Pai says it means.

Artificial intelligence is being used to predict behaviour in ‘frightening new ways’ despite condemnation from MPs and campaigners

Have you ever wondered whether it's possible to do anything on the web without JavaScript? How many sites use progressive enhancement in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out.

Imagine streaming your favorite shows without commercials.

Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.

Google waited until late at night on a Wednesday to announce its new music-streaming service YouTube Music. That seems odd in itself, but now that the service is actually live something even weirder is happening: only certain people can sign up. Considering this new YouTube Music service has been in the works for at least a year, and also considering that YouTube already has a service remarkably similar to YouTube Music (YouTube Red), it’s a real head-scratcher as to why the launch of this brand new product is such a mess.