Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...

Most people use the word “Wi‑Fi” when they really mean “internet,” and that mix‑up quietly shapes how we shop for service, ...

Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is useless if the physical network carrying it ...

The sole undersea cable connecting it to the rest of the world had been snapped by an underwater avalanche from the volcano.

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

On Jan. 1, the world entered 2026, leaving 2025 and its viral moments behind. From cringey TikTok dances to excessive protein ...

Continuing our look at the work of the IOWN project, we find out what use cases the next evolved generation of the infrastructure will support and which firms are likely to gain.

What has changed is the source material. For young people growing up in a digital world, quotable moments don’t come from films or TV but from TikTok edits, Roblox streams, speedrun memes, Minecraft ...

Army vs. Navy is one of the most special games in all of college football, and one element that makes it such a spectacle is the uniforms worn by each program. The Black Knights and Midshipmen — ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...