Tag: Internet
What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of...
Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University
When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon...
Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seat
Brian Downing, University of Mississippi
It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about...
Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites
Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 27, 2025, that will...
Why we fall for fake health information – and how it...
Angshuman K. Kashyap, University of Maryland
In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or...
How millions of people can watch the same video at the...
Chetan Jaiswal, Quinnipiac University
Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic by volume in...
A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne...
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Mariette DiChristina, Boston University
About one-third of the global...
Chef Bill Granger’s inadvertent legacy – the avocado toast meme
Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College
On Christmas Day 2023, world-renowned Australian chef and restaurateur Bill Granger died at 54.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is a potent reminder that the internet...
Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College
In the weeks leading up to June 16, 2023, when I attended the Pittsburgh leg...
EXPLORING NATURE
Coal plants emitted more pollution during the last government shutdown, while...
Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Huan Li, North Carolina A&T State University, and Neha Khanna, Binghamton University, State University of New York
