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Study: The Internet Has Finally Become TV

In the next five years, more than 50 percent of the world’s population will have internet access, and 80 percent of internet traffic will be devoted to video, says a new study by Cisco. But it’s not just billions more dinky YouTube videos that will suck up all that bandwidth. It’s our shifting TV habits.…

Television Alissa Walker May 27

The Latest Big Cable Consolidation Will Screw Consumers and Startups

America woke up to some frustrating news today. Charter, the fourth-largest cable company in America, wants to buy Time Warner Cable, the second-largest, as well as Bright House, the tenth-largest. If the deal goes through it’s going to affect come 23 million internet customers directly. Not in a good way. Major cable mergers like this…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 26

Charter Plans to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion

Charter Communications has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for a cool $55 billion, and while the merger won’t be as massive as the Comcast-TWC deal that was recently shot down, the further consolidation of cable giants isn’t good news for consumers. Following competition from the French telecoms firm Altice last week, Charter—currently the fourth-biggest…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 26

How Verizon Buying AOL Subverts an Open Internet

Telecommunication companies were up in arms in February after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made net neutrality the law of the land by classifying broadband internet as a utility, seeming to ensure there would be no pay-to-play fast lanes. Not so fast. As Verizon’s planned acquisition of AOL reminds us, there’s another way to cash…

Tech News Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay and Hong Guo - The Conversation May 21

All the Reasons People Are So Pissed About Facebook’s Internet.org

The idea sounds flat-out utopian: Free internet! For everyone! Starting in the least-connected countries! Of course, there’s a catch: Facebook’s Internet.org is helping people get online, but their online experience is then controlled by Facebook. Debate over how much Facebook’s marquee corporate responsibility crusade is tempered by plans to become a global on-ramp for all…

Social Media Kate Knibbs May 19

Neuroscientists Are Still Confused About #TheDress

The dress is back — this time with peer-reviewed science. Months after the blue-and-black (OR IS IT white-and-gold?) dress provoked a bajillion arguments, scientists come armed with new studies. But they still can’t solve the fundamental mystery behind the dress. That would not be the dress’s real color. (Internet sleuths were on that from day…

Tech News Sarah Zhang May 14

We’re Running Out of Internet

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re finally going to run out of internet. Back in 2011, we warned that this web reckoning was upon us, and now we have a more substantial timeframe. According to The Wall Street Journal, we’ll be fresh out of IP addresses in the next few months. Back in…

Tech News Darren Orf May 13

Facebook Now Puts Full Articles From Big Publishers in Your News Feed

Facebook has just launched a new service called Instant Articles, which allows media organizations to create interactive pieces which are hosted on Facebook’s servers and embedded in your news feed. The new service was apparently born out of a desire for speed. Facebook claims that news articles take an average of eight seconds to load…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe May 13

Here’s How Much Energy We Waste On Cat GIFs and Twitterbooks

Are you sitting comfortably? Good, because you’re about to get a good old-fashioned dose of guilt. The folks at SciShow have put together a video examining how much energy we waste on running the internet, and yup, the number is embarrassingly large. As the video explains, loading videos of people falling off rooftops (and, y’know,…

Tech News Chris Mills May 12

Why More Technology Giants Are Paying To Lay Their Own Undersea Cables

Remember when Gizmodo’s Annalee Newitz declared this the Infrastructure Age? Well, here’s more proof: Microsoft is investing in its own undersea internet cables. Image: An undersea cable installation linking an island in the Baltic. Jens Köhler/ullstein bild via Getty Images A Cable of One’s Own In an announcement on its blog yesterday, the company explained…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 12

Could a Medieval Law Help Govern the Internet?

Algorithms increasingly work together to help automate our digital lives—but not every result is perfect, positive or even predicted by their creators. Now, researchers are wondering if the revival of Medieval law could help work out who pays up when things go wrong. New Scientist reportsthat Kate Crawford from Microsoft Research wants revive something known…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 11

You Can Now Order Takeout Directly From Google Search Results

Because ordering food already seemed too difficult, Google has decided to add a new tool to its search system which allows you to order takeout from restaurants straight from a page of results. When you search for nearby food joints, you should be able to select an option to “place an order.” That should whisk…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 8

Icelandic Has the Best Words for Technology

When the University of Iceland got its first computer in 1964, Icelandic did not have a word for “computer.” So the guardians of the language invented one: tölva—a fusion of tala (number) and völva (prophetess) that adds up to the wonderfully poetic “prophetess of numbers.” Iceland is an isolated island of just 300,000 people, and…

Tech News Sarah Zhang May 7

Every Major Airline’s Wifi Service, Explained and Ranked

You know that Louis C.K. joke about wifi on airplanes? He says, “It’s fast, and I’m watching YouTube clips. It’s amazing—I’m on an airplane! And then it breaks down.… And the guy next to me goes, ‘This is bullshit.’” It’s so true. Wifi on airplanes is absurdly cool, but only if it’s even available on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 4

Comcast Treats City to Fiber After Suing It For Installing Fiber

Insulting news, residents of Chattanooga! Comcast will soon offer its 2 Gigabit-per-second fiber internet service to some 200,000 customers in the area. Why insulting? Because just a few years ago Comcast sued Chattanooga’s utility board for building a fiber network, forcing residents to use its own super slow internet instead. Comcast eventually lost the lawsuit…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 1

Watch YouTube’s Favorite Videos to Celebrate Its 10th Birthday

On April 23rd 2005, the first ever video was uploaded to YouTube. Just a few days later in May, the video site opened to the public with its beta launch. That means YouTube turns 10 this month and it’s celebrating the only way it knows: with its favorite videos. That first ever video was Me…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 1

Rand Paul Wants to Kill Net Neutrality All By Himself

There are plenty of hare-brained plans to destroy net neutrality rules, but the latest is, like, hair-brained minus the brain part. You won’t be surprised to hear that the man behind it is attention addict and presidential hopeful Rand Paul. We need to have a chat about facts, Rand. Long story short: Rand Paul wants…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 30

The Most Important Wikipedia Pages, From the First Open Wiki Ranking

If you’ve ever wondered what the most important Wikipedia page was—about any topic—wonder no longer: a team of researchers has developed the first open Wikipedia ranking. Here’s what’s most important right now. The Laboratory for Web Algorithmics at the Università degli studi di Milano has developed The Open Wikipedia Ranking. It uses a series of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 28

Printing Out the Internet Would Take About 136 Billion Pages of Paper

Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? How much paper would it take to print the internet? A group of students at the University of Leicester recently estimated an answer to the latter question—in relationship to how many trees it would take to print it. It’s the kind of question you’d expect to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 27

Why Senator Ron Wyden Has It Wrong About the Open Internet

Sen. Ron Wyden took to Wired yesterday to argue that the Fast Track bill he co-sponsored to rush approval for trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will help protect the free and open Internet. Sen. Wyden has long been a staunch defender of the Internet and users’ rights, and more recently, he has…

Tech News Maira Sutton Apr 24

Study: The Internet Has Finally Become TV

The Latest Big Cable Consolidation Will Screw Consumers and Startups

Charter Plans to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion

How Verizon Buying AOL Subverts an Open Internet

All the Reasons People Are So Pissed About Facebook’s Internet.org

Neuroscientists Are Still Confused About #TheDress

We’re Running Out of Internet

Facebook Now Puts Full Articles From Big Publishers in Your News Feed

Here’s How Much Energy We Waste On Cat GIFs and Twitterbooks

Why More Technology Giants Are Paying To Lay Their Own Undersea Cables

Could a Medieval Law Help Govern the Internet?

You Can Now Order Takeout Directly From Google Search Results

Icelandic Has the Best Words for Technology

Every Major Airline’s Wifi Service, Explained and Ranked

Comcast Treats City to Fiber After Suing It For Installing Fiber

Watch YouTube’s Favorite Videos to Celebrate Its 10th Birthday

Rand Paul Wants to Kill Net Neutrality All By Himself

The Most Important Wikipedia Pages, From the First Open Wiki Ranking

Printing Out the Internet Would Take About 136 Billion Pages of Paper

Why Senator Ron Wyden Has It Wrong About the Open Internet

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