Internet

Facebook Launches Lab to Bring Internet Everywhere

Facebook is giving more details about its effort to connect remote parts of the world to the Internet – and it involves drones, lasers and satellites. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said…

Brazil’s Congress Approves Internet Legislation

The lower house of Brazil’s Congress has approved legislation meant to ensure the privacy of Internet users and to guarantee what is called “Internet neutrality,” that all content be treated…

Obama Reassures Internet CEOs on Tech Privacy

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought to assure leading Internet and tech executives that his administration is committed to protecting people’s privacy, a week before a self-imposed deadline for a…

SXSW: Snowden Talks of Internet Security

AUSTIN Declaring that the U.S. government is “setting fire to the future of the Internet” by spying on Americans and being unaccountable for that, former National Security Agency contractor Edward…

Missing Malaysian Jet: You Can Help!

Satellite Imagery Provider Invites Public’s Help Missing Airplane: Malaysia Airlines MH370 Click Here to Help Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam…

Do You Have the Right to Remain Anonymous?

A revolution is at hand, and the consequences could fundamentally change the identity of the Internet — or, more precisely, your identity within it. Websites and social networks are increasingly…

Internet’s Impact on Language

So far, the Internet hasn’t been as revolutionary to the way we write and talk every day as it has been to the ways we communicate. David Crystal, linguist and…

Google Glass: Don’t be a ‘Glasshole’

When a tech consultant showed off her Google Glass the other night at the Haight Street bar Molotov’s, the result was explosive — and reflected a growing debate over whether…

Google is Working on 10-Gigabit Internet Connections, Executive Says

Google wants to create Internet connections of 10 gigabits per second, 10 times faster than what it already delivers to customers of its Fiber service in the Kansas City area….

Judge Bans Wisconsin Man from the Internet for Using Neighbor’s Likeness…

A Wisconsin man has been banned from the Internet and will serve 30 months of probation for using his neighbor’s likeness in Craigslist personal ads without her knowledge or consent….

Obama Secures $750M in Pledges to Get Kids Online

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has secured commitments from U.S. companies worth about $750 million to get more students connected to high-speed Internet. AT&T, Sprint, Apple and Microsoft are among…

U.S. Census Bureau Tracks Americans’ Computer Use Through 3 Decades

America’s — and Americans’ — relationship with computers and the Internet has radically changed in the last 30 years, U.S. Census Bureau figures show. In 1997, 18 percent of U.S….