internet

Sea Change - Rest of the World Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it. One sunny Thursday morning in September 2021, three men gathered at the Multimedia University of Kenya, in Nairobi, for a small ceremony. The usually pristine...

The internet is tricking our brains - NBC Researchers are finding that the intersection of Google, smartphones and our memories is starting to mess with how we judge our own abilities. Every now and then, Adrian Ward likes to test himself against the internet’s most-used search engine...

Traveling Without Moving: How The Internet Creates Perpetual Consumers - Forbes We’ve all done it. You go online to look at a pattern, a photo, and next thing you know you are buying a half dozen cheese plates even though you aren’t French and you don’t eat cheese. We were told in the 1990s...

Why Surveillance Is the Climate Change of the Internet - The Atlantic The Atlantic podcast Crazy/Genius returns to explain how privacy became the most important idea on the internet—and why it’s still so confusing. f you have a hard time understanding the meaning of privacy and the scale of...

We are leaving older adults out of the digital world - Tech Crunch May is national Older Americans Month, and this year’s theme is Connect, Create, Contribute. One area in particular threatens to prevent older adults from making those connections: the digital divide. Nationally, one-third of...

Why there's so little left of the early internet - BBC It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. In 2005, student Alex Tew had a million-dollar brainwave. The 20-year-old was...

There’s a right way and a wrong way to ask the internet for travel tips - Quartzy The surest sign that summer travel season is upon us? The proliferation of Facebook posts from friends who are crowd-sourcing recommendations for their upcoming trip to Lisbon, Reykjavik, or...