Twenty years ago today, something happened that changed the digital world forever: CERN published a statement that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available to use, by anybody, on a royalty free basis. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"Two weeks without the internet? You must have been shitting yourself and crying constantly. I bet you found yourself unable to form a coherent sentenc..." More »
The humble router is your gateway to the internet. Everything you do on your home broadband connection goes through it, and if it's playing up it breaks your internet. In fact, if yours is anything like mine, it cocks up much more than it should. Maybe that's because they've barely changed in the last 25 years. Read More >>
Featured comment by locust76:
"There's really no such thing as "basic QoS." It's a very complicated subject. Sure, you could define a few standard rules here and there for well-know..." More »
There's nothing to spice up your Monday like getting a feel for how insignificant of a speck you are in the grand scheme of the universe. Here Is Today does just that, but in such a pretty, minimalist way that you won't even mind. Read More >>
There are some things you should really see/inspect/measure before you buy, but in the age of item reviews and free return shipping, laziness often dictates that we just take a best guess and see how things play out. Read More >>
Featured comment by somecrazycameraguy:
"I once bought a £700 camera lens from a website which some people said was fraudulent. No details were stolen, got the lens the next week, new and un..." More »
For better or worse, Apple has been peddling digital wares for ten years through its iTunes store. What started as a 69 pence, iPod-centric music seller has evolved into the billion pound behemoth we know today. Read More >>
Britain's favourite hypocritical outrage and celebrity-arse photograph portal has launched a public-facing stats page, giving normal people an easy way to shake their heads in dismay at the opinions of its mad, racist, angry nutcase readers. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sam Gibbs:
"I'm not sure how I feel about this. Up until recently I was a diehard Instapaper user, have been since 2009. But the experience on Android isn't as go..." More »
There's this musical in London, called The Book of Mormon. You might've heard of it. It's not very nice to Mormons. Anyway, in an effort to hit back against the heathens, the #RealMormons have launched a #Twitter campaign (complete with a load of incredibly earnest ads on tubes and buses), all to show how great #Mormons are and how down with da kidz religion is. You don't need to be a social media expert to see where this is going. Read More >>
Samsung has been caught allowing agency staff to leave negative reviews of HTC products online, with the global shame outbreak forcing the tech giant to (sort of) apologise to its mobile rival. Read More >>
China's not happy with all the risqué content Apple's apparently trying to push to its citizens. The state-run The People's Daily, named and shamed Apple in a porno-shock investigation, labelling it as one of the biggest providers of the sordid material behind the Great Firewall of China. Oh the irony. Read More >>
The Daily Mail is up in arms over the gov.uk site winning the Design of the Year award, because, among other things, it 'doesn't have enough pictures'. So we've donned our Daily Mail-editor hats, and re-imagined what sort of visual wares the Mail would use to illustrate all the little bits of everyone's favourite government portal. Read More >>
Do you have a Bachelors degree, good teamwork skills, and a desire to work in Beijing? If yes, then Chief Pornography Identification Officer might be the job for you! You had better know your porn because you will be expected to research and study pornographic videos and images all day long, while managing and rating your team's porn resources. No easy task. Read More >>
A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched an astonishingly quick new broadband option, letting local users register for an unbelievable two gigabytes per second home fibre service. But don't be too jealous, they'll probably only get 1.7Gbps in the evenings. Read More >>
Virgin isn't exactly a student of laissez-fairebroadband, instead choosing to actively 'traffic-manage' its customers. It's just rolled out a new system of traffic management, and whilst it leads to some theoretically marginal improvements for consumers, it's the most complicated sonofabitch you're ever gonna see. But more than that, it's a demonstration of how out-of-touch some ISPs really are. Read More >>
Featured comment by matt.sokolinski:
"And how is that contract term fair to the user?? If I dont like the change, I cant do anything about it because I'll get early termination fee and god..." More »
According to stats generated by Google, the internet's generally working better for everyone in 2013, as improvement in back-end, server and browser tech managed to speed everything up. So close that Speedtest tab and stop whining. Read More >>
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