Nepal's crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of in…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship likely cut cables in the Red Sea that disrupted internet access in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access Sunday in parts of Asia and the Middle East, e…
NEW YORK (AP) — In one new corner of the internet, users are invited to “paint the world.” And paint they have. Welcome to wplace — an ever-ev…
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the U.S. government’s request to break up the company. The 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., will likely ripple across the technological landscape at a time when the industry is being reshaped by artificial intelligence breakthroughs — including conversational “answer engines” as companies like ChatGPT and Perplexity try to upend Google’s long-held position as the internet’s main gateway.
Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13. T…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti announced Tuesday that they regained control of a critical telecommunications hub that heavily ar…
Virginia was awarded nearly one and a half billion dollars by the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment or Bead Program to improve internet a…
Researchers with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) are asking for your help in tracking dolphins in Chesapea…
In May, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a law requiring social media companies to set default time of one hour per day for users under 16. That…