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Just how important is the internet in your life? If you consider it a fundamental human resource on a level with water, shelter and food, congratulations: You’re not alone. A new Cisco survey has revealed that, across the world, the importance of the internet has grown to genuinely stunning proportions.
I first learned about Napster in my freshman geometry class from a varsity football guy who warmed the bench. Up to that point, I was still lurking in AOL chatrooms to download tracks from moderators and their Comic Sans bots—which, if you think about it—was a really weird and impractical way to get free mp3s.
Bad news for those who use social media as a way to escape politics: Twitter is planning to sell political advertising in the run-up to next year’s U.S. election, and five Presidential campaigns are already on board.
Great news for Amazon Kindle owners. E-book downloads are now available from over 11,000 libraries around the country. Borrowed books sport many of the same features that come along with books purchased from Amazon—synching, notes, highlights—but the books must be found via your local library’s website, not through Amazon’s e-book store.
It’s called ‘Internet Essentials’ and if you have at least one child receiving free school lunches, you may qualify to sign up for what’s essentially cable service provider Comcast’s $9.95-a-month Internet plan. That’s a savings of about $20 a month, since it’s the same plan, feature-wise, as the one everyone else pays $30 a month [...]
Three things, they say, are certain in life: death, taxes, and Facebook redesigns. The social network, notorious for tinkering with its home page, has just introduced changes to the Facebook news feed with an emphasis on “top stories” instead of recent posts.
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest weighs close to 300 [...]
If you’ve ever been tempted to start reading comic books via digital distribution, this may have seemed like the perfect month to do so; in addition to DC Comics relaunching its superhero line with simultaneous print and digital releases throughout September, Marvel Comics has also relaunched its “Ultimate” line this month, including a simultaneous print/digital [...]
It’s often easy to forget that behind the other side of the computer screen sits a real person with thoughts and feelings. According to a recent Associated Press-MTV poll, most young people between the ages of 14 and 24 think it’s okay to use slurs and derogatory terms as long as it’s done online.
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
As we all know by now, the Internet is a series of tubes. Some of those tubes are actually called submarine communications cables, which, as the name suggests, are giant cables laid on the seabed, carrying telecommunications signals between continents, countries and small islands in between. There are apparently 121 of these systems in place right [...]
