The Verge’s Internet Culture section is the home for daily coverage of how our online lives influence and are influenced by pop culture and the world around us. The ways in which we communicate, ...
The internet represents a fundamental shift in how Americans connect with one another, gather information and conduct their day-to-day lives. For more than 20 years, Pew Research Center has documented ...
The Internet we want is open, trustworthy, and safe. For everyone. But challenges remain: high costs, fragile infrastructure, shutdowns, and privacy threats. Our Action Plan is a roadmap for progress, ...
Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse. Listen to Andrew read this story Each morning, the queues began forming before dawn. Groups of women – always women – stood in the autumn ...
The Internet Archive has come back online, in slightly degraded mode, after repelling an October 9 DDoS attack and then succumbing to a raid on users' data. For several days after the attack, the ...
A supporter of former prime minister Imran Khan throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with security forces in Karachi The battle between Imran Khan's supporters and the powerful Pakistani ...
Testing our Internet Speed is a popular pastime, especially when we want to show off to the world how fast our Internet is. You’ve done this before, right? Are we the only ones? Say it isn’t so, ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX company has been launching thousands of satellites into orbit. Many people say they've seen them in the skies. They're part of the Starlink project, which aims to provide high speed ...
Web3 has attracted increasing attention since the turn of the decade in 2020, with major tech companies entering the space. But what is it, and how does it differ from web2, the internet version we ...
Internet users worldwide received a jarring reminder on Monday about just how reliant they were on Google, when the Silicon Valley giant suffered a major outage for about an hour, sending many of its ...
These systems can blanket the globe with high-speed internet—or turn Earth’s orbit into a junk-ridden minefield. We can now affordably build, launch, and operate tens of thousands of satellites in ...
The internet is increasingly vulnerable to hacking; a quantum one would be unhackable. Later this year, Dutch researchers will complete a quantum internet between Delft and the Hague. An internet ...