Coronavirus Lockdown: EU Looks to Manage Broadband Strain By Niels Broekhuijsen With an increase in people bored at home, broadband demand in the EU is on the rise, and the EU taking measures to ensure the internet doesn't get congested.
German Internet Exchange Operator Sees 'Unusual' Peak in Traffic During Coronavirus Outbreak By Niels Broekhuijsen Internet Exchange Operator DE-DIX's B2B partners are in need for higher data caps to meet their increased customer needs during the COVID-19 outbreak.
118 Countries Have Cheaper Broadband Internet Than the US Right Now By Niels Broekhuijsen UK research listed the U.S. in the 119th spot in terms of pricing for consumer broadband Internet access.
Europe Is Officially out of IPv4 Addresses By Lucian Armasu RIPE announced that it can no longer easily provide IPv4 addresses to members that ask for them. New allocations are severely limited and based on a waiting list.
Websites Evade Google Chrome's Incognito Protections By Nathaniel Mott Publishers are finding new ways to figure out if Chrome users are browsing in Incognito mode to get around their paywalls.
The FCC Wants ISPs to Be (Slightly) More Honest By Nathaniel Mott The FCC voted to force Internet service providers to more accurately count the number of people to whom they offer broadband Internet access.
Report: FTC Investigating Facebook's Many Acquisitions By Nathaniel Mott After narrowly approving a $5 billion settlement for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the FTC is now conducting an antitrust investigation into Facebook.
Bluetooth is Named After What? The Real History Behind Tech Brand Names We Say Every Day By Sarah Lord From Asus to Aorus, many of the top tech brand names have ancient origins.
Official Intel Reddit Thread Gives Users a New Place to Complain By Nathaniel Mott Intel announced that it's expanding its official customer support to another social platform: Reddit.
Prime Day Sales Topple Amazon Records, Despite Worker Strike By Nathaniel Mott Amazon said that Prime Day 2019 put up greater sales numbers than last year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.
6 Back-to-School PC Upgrades to Supercharge Your Semester By Avram Piltch Here are 6 affordable ways to add performance, productivity and comfort to your setup.
Razer Toaster is Official, CEO Reveals By Andrew E. Freedman The Razer Toaster (yes, the bread kind) is becoming a reality. That's according to Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, who finally relented to fans in a Facebook post.
13 April Fools’ Day Tech Announcements We’re Pumped About By Scharon Harding April Fool’s Day is here, and it’s brought with it some exciting tech product announcements. We’ve rounded up 13 of our favorite holiday releases that we know you’ll want to get your hands on ASAP.
Tim Berners-Lee Pinpoints the Internet's Biggest Issues By Nathaniel Mott Sir Tim Berners-Lee marked the web's 30th birthday with a blog post in which he identified some of the web's greatest problems.
Net Neutrality Fights Back With the Save the Internet Act of 2019 By Nathaniel Mott The Save the Internet Act of 2019 is meant to force the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to restore the net neutrality protections it repealed in 2018.
FTC Takes a Whack at Fake Amazon Reviews By Nathaniel Mott The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against a dietary supplement company that purchased fake Amazon reviews.
US Delays Tariff Increase on China By Nathaniel Mott U.S. President Donald Trump delayed an increase on tariffs for Chinese goods following what he characterized as “very productive talks” between the countries.
New Forum Software Coming to Tom's Hardware By Tom's Hardware Community Tom’s forums will be temporarily unavailable as we migrate to a new, more powerful forum platform. We’re rolling out a substantial upgrade to the forum by moving to XenForo forum software.
Silicon Valley Fears AI Export Rules - Report By Nathaniel Mott The New York Times said that a Commerce Department proposal would restrict the export of several categories of AI technology to countries the U.S. has sanctioned in the past.
