
No, it’s not just you: Half of the internet is down, including Google, Amazon, and Reddit
What better way to start off the week than by not being able to use virtually any online service or access half of the internet’s …
What better way to start off the week than by not being able to use virtually any online service or access half of the internet’s …
Residents in Buffalo may have felt a reason to gripe in recent days, when separate analyses — from technology firm Ookla as well as The …
You might think your internet service is fine as it is — when it works, of course, which might be rarely if you have certain …
New research out of Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst was picked up today in a Bloomberg piece that reports how carriers are …
Living with slow home internet is a punishment that courts would likely rule cruel and unusual, assuming the victims ever get a consistent enough signal …
Checking whether your new home has coverage from a good internet provider is one of the cardinal rules of buying a house these days. But …
As we’ve documented ad nauseam before, cable companies are struggling with falling profits due largely to cord cutting. With over a million customers jumping ship …
Despite the fact that Facebook is the largest social network in the world, it often operates as a nearly opaque box. There’s no oversight of …
Pay TV has had a rough few years, with subscriber numbers hitting record lows, new competition springing up all over the place, and mobile devices …
The general assumption is that unless your internet comes from Google Fiber or a local provider, you’re overpaying for a mediocre service. There’s certainly some …
While the United States and Canada are two very different countries with a raft of different problems, they do share one common enemy: internet service …
2017 has been a rollercoaster year, but you might want to sit down to absorb this particularly unexpected piece of news: Comcast is raising the …
There are two main components to getting an entire nation online: the last mile, and the backbone. The often-talked-about “last mile” is the final piece …
Thanks to the FCC’s rollback of net neutrality provisions this morning, you’re even more in thrall to your local cable monopoly than you were yesterday. …
Every year, JD Power surveys tens of thousands of US customers about nearly every product and service you can think of. It’s the most repeatable, …
Internet service providers across the US appear to be struggling with connectivity on Monday afternoon. DownDetector, a crowdsourced website that collects reports of service outages, …
As it turns out, 2017 does have some silver linings. Gangnam Style, which has dominated the YouTube video leaderboards for the last five years, is out. …
A strange outage has struck a number of extremely popular websites this morning, bringing The New York Times, CNN, Reddit, Pinterest, Etsy, and Amazon to …
Yes, Congress did “sell you out” earlier this week, by passing a bill that will let internet service providers (ISPs) collect your browsing data and use it …
If it seems like your internet browsing is hitting more walls than possible today, you’ll be happy to know that it’s not your computer. A …
One of the more exciting things about following the tech world is that its nearly impossible to predict where things are headed. Sure, we know …
Scientifically speaking, 2016 has been a trash fire inside a dumpster fire of a limp-wristed excuse for a year. But we’ve still got another month …
The internet can be a pretty gross place when you really sit back and take it all in. There’s lots of hate floating around out …
Earlier today, President-elect Donald Trump appointed two advisers to his transition team to oversee telecommunications policy. You could be forgiven for missing the news in …
Among the many, many bad things to come out of this election cycle, one that seems to be lingering with a particularly bad odor is …
For the first time in history, more users last month accessed the web from mobile devices like smartphones and tablets than they did from desktops …
AT&T’s long-rumored DirecTV service is going to launch next month, the company has revealed. AT&T chief Randall Stephenson announced the news as part of a discussion …
Hillary Clinton led in Google searches during Monday’s fiery first presidential debate, although Donald Trump was the most discussed candidate on Twitter. Clinton accounted for …
It’s hard to reconcile the modern world we live in — where information is readily accessible and flows freely — with the reality of what …
I see you reaching for your calendar, but it’s true: this is not April 1st, and the story is not a joke. A large internet …