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Oct 2, 2014

Is Your City Ready to Join the Internet of Things? (Op-Ed)

Michael Dixon, is general manager for IBM's global smarter cities business where he leads IBM's vision, strategy and operations for helping cities apply analytics, mobile, cloud and social technologies. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The so-called Internet of Things has passed from future-world...

Oct 9, 2014

The Internet in 2025: Blazing Speeds Could Enable Futuristic Tech

What if the Internet were 100 times faster than it is today? How would this super-high-speed connectivity affect the economy, health care and education? The Pew Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., recently posed these questions to experts in a range of Internet-related fields. Predictions about what the...

Oct 25, 2014

Is Online Anonymity Even Possible? (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on& The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a post-Snowden world, anonymity is what people want online. Smartphone apps offering anonymous messaging are popping up everywhere – Secret, Whisper and now Yik Yak. The latest additions...

Nov 4, 2014

Digital Archive Lets Web Surfers Travel Back in Time

There's a tool that turns your Web browser into a time machine, and librarians at Stanford University have figured out how to use it. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web this year, Stanford created a digital archive of its bygone Web pages, some of which...

Dec 30, 2014

Workers' Tech Needs Are More Old-School Than You Think

Forget fancy new tablets or cloud computing; the technologies that today's workers really need are more basic than that. The Internet and email are the tech tools that employees say they need to get through their workdays, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. For the survey, researchers asked...

Jan 13, 2015

Why People Love the Phygital World (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Everyday objects with network connections that can collect and share data or be remotely controlled – the Internet of Things (IoT) – promise to transform the way we interact...

Feb 24, 2015

Saving Data From the Digital Dark Age (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. “The internet is forever.” So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material – such as stolen photographs – permanently from the web. Yet paradoxically the vast and...

May 11, 2015

How You'll Control Your Home and Car in 2025

Diogo Monica is an IEEE member and security lead at Docker, a company that offers an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship and run distributed applications. Monica contributed this article to Tom's Guide's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In its forecast on the Internet of Things (IoT),...

Jul 30, 2015

America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet

Email, Facebook, cat videos — these are just a few of the things that 15 percent of American adults are missing out on every day because they don't use the Internet. However, that 15 percent is a huge reduction from the percentage of Americans who did not use the Internet...

Aug 5, 2015

An Encrypted Internet Is a Basic Human Right (Op-Ed)

Nico Sell is co-founder and co-chairman of Wickr Inc. This Op-Ed is part of a series provided by the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, class of 2015. Sell contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. George Washington could have become a king, but instead devoted his...

Oct 27, 2015

Google Can Help You Find the Perfect Halloween Costume

Not sure what to be for Halloween? Google may be able to help. A new Google Trends tool shows you what costumes are popular right now in your area and around the country, so you can be sure to wear something more original than, say, a Stormtrooper costume to this...

Nov 3, 2015

Are the Internet's Undersea Cables at Risk for Sabotage?

This article was originally published at The Conversation.The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Recently a New York Times article on Russian submarine activity near undersea communications cables dredged up Cold War politics and generated widespread recognition of the submerged systems we all depend...

Feb 18, 2016

The Human Brain's Memory Could Store the Entire Internet

The human brain may be able to hold as much information in its memory as is contained on the entire Internet, new research suggests. Researchers discovered that, unlike a classical computer that codes information as 0s and 1s, a brain cell uses 26 different ways to code its bits. They...

Mar 18, 2016

How Big Is the Internet, Really?

The Internet is a busy place. Every second, approximately 6,000 tweets are tweeted; more than 40,000 Google queries are searched; and more than 2 million emails are sent, according to Internet Live Stats, a website of the international Real Time Statistics Project. But these statistics only hint at the size...

Jun 16, 2016

ISIS Plays 'Evolutionary Game' to Avoid Online Shutdown

Researchers have created a computer model to figure out the savvy ways that the terrorist group called ISIS has managed to grow its members online. The results could help to thwart future attacks. The researchers identified three behavioral patterns of online ISIS supporters that allowed the groups to adapt and...