Did The Internet Kill Thomas Cook ?
Thomas Cook (the man) is seen by many as the inventor of modern tourism, with his first paid railroad excursion in 1845. Like today’s low-cost airlines, Cook and the company named for him brought travel to...
Can a new space race connect the world to the internet?
A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX's Starlink broadband network, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Photo: AP) It's...
How the internet first freed and then trapped Uighur Muslims in China
The Uighurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group of around 12 million in North West China, are required by the police to carry their smartphones and IDs listing their ethnicity. As they pass through one of the...
Finding security in the future of the internet
What does our future hold in terms of how our information is collected? How can we know our information is safe? It's a question people at SRI International are trying to answer. SRI is a research non-profit...
Windows 10 Cortana ‘fix’ breaks the internet – and people aren’t happy
Windows 10 has run into more trouble at the hands of the KB4515384 update, which is, by all accounts, breaking far more than it fixes, with the latest victim reportedly being networking functionality. As...
Better, faster internet is coming and here’s how to get it
When it comes to internet connectivity, most people tend to gloss over how fast their gateway actually is. As long as it connects, they tend to say, it's good enough for them. Or, for many people, as long as...
Alexa Answers allows strangers on the internet to answer your Alexa questions
In the future, the answers that Alexa reads out could be coming from you, someone you know, or some stranger on the internet. That's because starting September 12, Amazon opened up its crowdsourcing...
Everyone’s Called it ‘Rumour’, but the Internet Still Wants to Know ‘Is MS Dhoni Retiring?’
The question on the Internet's mind today is: 'Is MS Dhoni retiring?' This happened as rumours of the former skipper, Mahendra Singh Dhoni holding a press conference started doing the rounds on social media on...
Internet Responds To The Apple Event With Broke AF Memes
The highly anticipated Apple Special Event took place on September 10, 2019. And the tech giant announced the iPhone 11 Pro which is equipped with an all-new triple-camera system to "completely transform how...