It takes little more than logging on to see the flaws in todayâs internetâmainly, how easy it is to steal or intercept data. One future solution for these problems could be an upgrade that relies on the latest advances in the science of subatomic particles: a quantum internet.
The World Wide Web is officially old enough for us judge what itâs produced. Thatâs right, itâs time for the world to start building a canon of the most significant websites of all time, and the Gizmodo staff has opinions.
Even in a world of face unlocking and fingerprint scanning, we still havenât escaped the password just yet. Theyâre still a necessity and theyâre still annoying to remember. There are now numerous browser features, third-party tools, and even hardware dongles designed to help keep your login credentials safe andâŚ
As anyone who has spent any amount of time on Twitter can tell you, the internet can bring out the worst in us. So it shouldnât come as a surprise that scientists in Europe are now hoping to catalogue exactly how the online hellscape affects mental health and well-being.
Get ready for the next generation of wifi technology: Wi-fi 6 (for so it is named) is going to be appearing on devices from next year. But will you have to throw out your old router and get a new one? And is this going to make your Netflix run faster? Hereâs everything you need to know about the new standard.
Verizon is launching what itâs calling âthe worldâs first commercial 5G broadband internet serviceâ later this fall, with customers in parts of Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento eligible to sign up for an October 1st launch date. However, thereâs a big caveat: Itâs technically not real 5G, and earlyâŚ
Few devices are as essential to the smooth running of a modern-day digital household than a wireless router, so itâs strange that this black box is so little understood. Here weâll outline one of the key features of many modern routers, dual band 2.4GHz and 5GHz support, so you know exactly what it is and how to takeâŚ
Have you been looking for a browser extension to cleverly replace curse words and search the web with the help of an omnipotent being? Well, holy forking shirtballs, has Google got the answer for you!
The DNS (Domain Name System) server settings on your laptop, phone, or router are your gateway to the webâconverting easy-to-remember domain names into actual internet IP addresses, just like your contacts app converts names into actual phone numbers. You can change which DNS server your devices use though, andâŚ
In 2016, Charter, the U.S.âs second largest cable provider bought out Time Warner Cable and rebranded the company as Spectrum. However, in order for the deal to get approved, the company promised New York State officials that it would increase broadband speeds to 100 Mbps by the end of 2018 while also extending cableâŚ
On Tuesday, Google announced yet another massive subsea cable project, this time a private line stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to connect a data center in the US directly to another in Europe.
If the internet went down, America would devolve into chaos. A new study suggests thatâs an increasingly likely possibility as rising sea levels submerge critical infrastructure buried along densely-populated coastlines.
The council tasked with ensuring consistency in criminal sentences in England and Wales has provided instruction on how courts should handle revenge porn cases: harshly.
If youâre a Comcast customer, you might have already realized your internet is borked today. That wave of sadness and despair youâre presumably experiencing seems to be the result of a few cut fiber cables, according to a tweet from Comcast. If it makes you feel any better, the company says itâs trying to fix it.
Leah Juliett was 14 when nude photos of her were circulated throughout her school without her consent. She had sent the photos privately to a boy, who then shared them with fellow students.
In April, the day before taxes were due, the IRSâ online filing system failed, just as procrastinators were settling into the annual TurboTax panic. How did this happen, especially before the most important tax day of the year? And why does this keep happening to government websites?
The New York State Public Service Commission is doing something that just about every consumer wishes they could do to their internet service provider: telling them to actually provide the service promised or get bent. The agency ordered Charter to pay a multi-million dollar fine and complete required expansion of itsâŚ
Most social media users know that bot accounts are among us, whether as fake voters with loud opinions or obsessive re-tweeters of a single corporationâs content. When it comes to telling many âfakeâ accounts from real ones, howeverâor just knowing how many non-individuals are active onlineâeven savvy users are mostlyâŚ
âLossâ is one of the modern internetâs most pervasive, and most strange, memes. Now, itâs, uh, a little different.
Thereâs a very simple new website making the rounds that all the kids are talking about. Itâs called âDid Thanos Kill Me?â
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