The internet can seem ubiquitous and invisible at once, but it relies on an elaborate infrastructure that’s sometimes buried just below our feet. Author and artist Ingrid Burrington has created a ...

Behind every meme and message is creaking, decades-old infrastructure. Internet experts can think of scenarios that could ...

With a federal subsidy that has provided less expensive or free broadband internet to more than 23 million American households due to run out of money by the end of May, a new University of ...

A DECADE AGO someone realised that the locks keeping swathes of the internet secure were not working. OpenSSL, a tool used to encrypt anything from social-media passwords to e-commerce purchases, had ...

Stepping into the next phase of internet infrastructure requires recognizing that not all traffic should be treated equally ...

The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, of course, but we don’t mean the infrastructure of the internet. We mean the internet ...

Falling water levels in Panama’s Gatún Lake. A cyberattack on a payment platform. An earthquake disrupting silicon-chip production in Taiwan. Elon Musk deciding which countries have access to the ...

A lot of homes are being built, but a lack of understanding of internet infrastructure and a need to cut costs means they kind of suck for internet. A lot of homes are being built, but a lack of ...

CLIVE, Iowa, July 25 (UPI) --State, county and city leaders across the United States are prioritizing projects to improve roads, repair bridges, remove lead water lines and deliver high-speed Internet ...

In 1973 Bob Metcalfe, a researcher for Xerox at Palo Alto Research Centre, helped think up a way for the company’s computers to send information to each other via co-axial cables. He called this ...

Detroit — Slow internet speeds, which can hinder everything from access to education to health care, continue to be an issue in several Metro Detroit communities, with nine falling below proposed ...