Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect ...

With the rise of AI models and automated bots, we find out whether there is any weight to the idea that the internet is now mostly dominated by machines or if it’s still a human hangout. When you ...

Imagine an internet where your data can’t be stolen, your messages are completely private and online security is unbreakable. That’s the promise of quantum internet: a futuristic technology that could ...

Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Toronto Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The rapid growth ...

Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come. In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized ...

Robbie Fordyce is affiliated with the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. “Splinternet” refers to the way the internet is being splintered – broken up, divided, separated, locked down, ...

Carl Öhman is an assistant professor in political science at Uppsala University, Sweden and the author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care.

ISPs connect consumers to the internet using technologies like DSL, cable, and fiber. Choice of ISP depends on location, needs, and the services offered. ISPs face challenges like infrastructure costs ...