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Feb 1, 2011

Could Satellites Bypass an Internet Shutdown?

Online censorship and Internet kill-switches could meet their match if satellite-enabled services and ground peer-to-peer networks become more widespread in the future. That's the view of Kosta Grammatis, CEO and founder of ahumanright.org, who sees Internet access as a basic necessity. An independent satellite operator could have kept Egyptian protesters...

Feb 2, 2011

Internet Service Restored in Egypt After 5-Day Blackout

Amidst ongoing political protests, the Egyptian government restored Internet service to the country Wednesday after a five-day blackout. “Egyptian Internet providers returned to the Internet at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29 a.m. Cairo time),” said a blog post by the Web-monitoring firm Renesys. (That’s 4:29 a.m. EST.) The Egyptian Stock Exchange, Commercial...

May 10, 2011

Navy Uses Massive Multiplayer Online Game to Develop Anti-Pirate Strategy

To fight piracy off the coast of Africa, the U.S. Navy has deployed advanced warships, robotic drones and even elite special forces. The Navy has now added a new weapon to that fight: a World of Warcraft-like multiplayer game called MMOWGLI. The game brings experts from around the government into...

May 20, 2011

High-Speed Internet Is Fast Track to Rx Drug Abuse

The expansion of high-speed Internet connections to rural towns and inner city America has helped introduce more people than ever to the commerce and knowledge of the Information Age. However, a new study says that the widespread increase in access to high-speed Internet connections could also be directly connected to...

Sep 6, 2011

Communicating on the Web (Infographic)

Here's how the 2 billion people on the Internet are communicating. (Image credit: Ross Toro, ) ...

Nov 7, 2011

Time Warner Confirms Nationwide Internet Outage

Time Warner Cable experienced a massive Internet outage across most of its service markets on Monday morning, the company has confirmed. Time Warner Internet subscribers from New York and Los Angeles to Dallas and Kansas City, Mo., were unable to connect to the Internet for less than a minute this...

Jan 20, 2012

Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?

The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Internet freedom — but it won't be the last battle of its kind. Although, ethereal as it is, the Internet seems destined to survive in some form or...

Feb 11, 2012

Future of Long-Distance Love Is Cool But Creepy

It's 2025 and your boyfriend has been temporarily posted to Tokyo, while you're still stuck in the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. How will you keep in touch? Well, maybe hug shirts and larger-than-life videoconferencing will help you out. As communication technology has improved over time, it's helped long-distance couples stay in...

Feb 29, 2012

Expert Poll: Internet Makes Us Smarter & Stupider

Will constant access to the Internet make today's young people brilliant multitaskers or shallow, screen-bound hermits? A new opinion poll finds that technology experts believe the answer is all of the above. According to a new survey of 1,021 technology experts and critics, hyperconnectivity is a mixed bag. Fifty-five percent...

Mar 16, 2012

Insurgents Destroyed US Helicopters Found in Online Photos

When new U.S. Army attack helicopters landed at an Iraqi base in 2007, soldiers uploaded smartphone photos of the helicopters to the Internet. The soldiers didn’t realize that those pictures contained GPS geotags, which according to an Army officer allowed insurgents to pinpoint and destroy four Apache helicopters in a...

May 16, 2012

Internet Usage Pattern Can Indicate Depression

Depressed internet users browse the web more randomly, switching between several applications, new research on university students suggests. The researchers analyzed Internet usage among college students and found that students who show signs of depression tend to browse differently than others. They identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that...

Jun 25, 2012

10 Sneaky Ways Teens Hide Online Activity

A recent survey commissioned by software security firm McAfee found that 71 percent of teenagers admit to hiding online activities from their parents. In many cases, parents were unaware of what their kids were up to online, or that kids could get into real-life trouble on the internet at all....

Jun 25, 2012

Parents In the Dark About Teens' Online Activities, Survey Finds

More than 70 percent of teens hide some of their online behavior from their parents, according to a new study that finds plenty of young people are using the Internet in ways that might surprise mom and dad. For example, while only 12 percent of parents said they thought their...

Jul 30, 2012

Clickable Internet Map Shows 350,000 Websites

In the map of a place, addresses that are physically close to each other in life get placed physically near each other in the map. But in a map of the internet, how would you define closeness? Russian programmer Ruslan Enikeev decided to use the same measure that Google uses...

Aug 1, 2012

Co-ops Bring Internet to Rural U.S. Towns

Which U.S. city offers all its residents an internet connection 100 times faster than cable and 500 times faster than DSL? The answer is Chattanooga, a city of about 170,000 in southeastern Tennessee. Because companies charge remote towns more for internet access than they do big cities, some American cities...