connectivity
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A Father Accidentally Shut Down His Town’s Whole Internet in an Effort to Limit His Kids’ Screentime
In case you haven’t noticed, kids these days just do not know how to moderate their screen time. So, in a desperate bid to get his children offline, some guy in France apparently blitzed his entire town’s internet connection — by accident, that is. He now faces up to six months in prison for the…
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When Discord’s Down, All Hell Breaks Loose
Google’s suite of cloud computing services were hit with some technical difficulties most of the day Saturday that caused connectivity problems on at least one of the services dependent on it: Discord, a chat and voice platform geared towards gamers (don’t worry, it’s back up now).
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More Than Half The World Will Be Online By The End Of This Year, UN Estimates
Before we set foot into 2019, 3.9 billion people or about 51 per cent of the global population will be using the internet, according to estimates by ITU, the United Nations agency for information and communications technology.
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What Is 5G And How Will It Make My Life Better?
Everybody loves speedy internet, so it’s no surprise that every major telecom in the world is working to make it even faster. Smartphones, watches, homes and cars are increasingly requiring stable internet connections. In order to pipe in enough bandwidth for that precious wireless feed, we’re going to need an entirely new form of wireless…