Category: #Internet

You may not think of Google Drive as a place for spam, but it is a real problem. Spammers can share malicious or spam-filled documents…

Amazon has plans to accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin by the end of 2021, according to an anonymously sourced report in the London newspaper City A.M….

T-Mobile’s new 5G home broadband gateway/wireless router matters for one big reason: It’s an alternative to the cable monopolies that dominate most major markets in…

In what should have been a reliable way for Twitter to show how you can tell if an account is real, the social network somehow…

Video and audio calls on Microsoft Teams can be challenging if you or someone else has poor audio. However, you can turn on the Live…

Certain websites show a “Sign in with Google” prompt to help you quickly sign in to that website. If you’re sick of this prompt, there’s…

CCDH finds ‘disinformation dozen’ have combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms The vast majority of Covid-19 anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracy…

Virginia will use $700 million in American Rescue Plan funding to expedite broadband buildouts in underserved communities throughout the state, Governor Ralph Northam announced on…

Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. (credit: Getty Images | Tetra Images) The California legislature unanimously approved a plan to build a statewide, open-access fiber…

Browser fingerprinting is a method with which the websites you visit can identify you. It’s mostly used to target ads at people, although it can…

The FCC won’t be able to do most of the things the president encouraged in his executive order until he nominates a fifth commissioner. Source:…

Have you ever searched for something on Google and wondered, “How does it know where to look?” The answer is “web crawlers,” which search the…

If you’re experiencing issues with the Xbox network’s online services, chances are that the service is down. Here’s how to check if the Xbox network…

With Rally, Mozilla says it hopes to make a case for an equitable market for data. Source: https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-rally-data-platform-130034616.html?src=rss_b2c Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Statebuilder is a Civ-like game designed from the ground-up to play on the web (which I just learned you can play Freeciv itself on, too)….

A whale isn’t only the largest animal in the ocean. We’ll explain what online whales are and why they spend so much money on the…

Target, Walmart and Kohl’s have an advantage that Amazon can’t rival — stores. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/after-year-seismic-shifts-online-shopping-will-prime-day-show-n1271537 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it with…

In home networking, bigger isn’t always better. Anyone who has spent time with the diminutive Eero or Ubiquiti AmpliFi routers can attest to this. Case…

Microsoft Edge does something very strange if you use Bing Search. Links will open in new tabs and the Search page stays open in another….

Firefox makes for a great, privacy-focused alternative to mainstream browsers like Chrome, but it has an annoying habit of warning you every time you close…

Instagram provides a bunch of cool ways to share and create content on the platform, but do you know you can directly upload videos to…

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, a tech vendor named Fastly experienced a major outage that inadvertently broke some of the biggest sites on…