I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise. My parents were mathematicians. My mother helped co... Read more
An international team of researchers from Western Sydney University, Harvard University, Kings College, Oxford University and University of Manchester have found the Internet can produce bot... Read more
Groundbreaking new technology allows super-fast internet by harnessing twisted light beams to carry more data and process it faster. Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of lig... Read more
China’s proposal is like a credit score that could encompass your entire life, from work performance to Internet activity. China’s proposals for a “social credit system... Read more
With an ever increasing number of everyday objects from our homes, workplaces and even from our wardrobes, getting connected to the Internet, known as the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), r... Read more
Mathematicians investigating one of science’s great questions – How to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small – have discovered that when the understanding of complex... Read more
For the powerful quantum computers that will be developed in the future, cracking online bank account details and credit cards number will be a cinch. But a team of cryptographers which incl... Read more
The new method has the potential to reduce the costs of long-distance optical fibre communications as signals wouldn’t need to be electronically boosted on their journey, which is important... Read more
Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party But these days she finds herself cursing the nation’s smoth... Read more
Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday confirmed some of the worst fears about Internet-connected devices, saying the technology presented serious data security and privacy risks, and urged com... Read more
Research conducted at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, may lead to greatly improved security of information transfer over the internet. In a paper published in the online journa... Read more
The messaging app Snapchat showed that saving everything wasn’t the only way to navigate the digital world. This month’s news provides yet another occasion for a friendly public-service remi... Read more
Bitcoin is the new money: minted and exchanged on the Internet. Faster and cheaper than a bank, the service is attracting attention from all over the world. But a big question remains: are t... Read more
Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues have created an artificial intelligence software that uses photos to locate documents on the Internet with far greater accuracy than ever before. T... Read more
