Stung by revelations of ubiquitous surveillance and compromised software, the internet’s engineers and programmers ponder how to fight back SECURITY guards (at least the good ones) are paid... Read more
A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be shared more efficiently. One colleague a... Read more
At its Ideas Summit in New York, Google has announced that it is working on developing a browser extension that will act as an easy-to-use way to bypass country-specific Internet censorship... Read more
Will form the foundation for the future Internet infrastructure With optical fibre networks gradually approaching their theoretical capacity limits, new types of fibres such as multicore fib... Read more
Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of... Read more
A transmission capacity of 1.6 terabits per second As rapidly increasing demand for bandwidth strains the Internet’s capacity, a team of engineers has devised a new fiber optic technol... Read more
The digital age has already changed the way we shop, work and play. But what effect is it having on us as a species? It’s becoming harder to concentrate. In The Shallows: What the Inte... Read more
The coming threats to the global Internet could take many forms The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Intern... Read more