Twenty-five years ago today, I filed the proposal for what was to become the World Wide Web. My boss dubbed it ‘vague but exciting’. Luckily, he thought enough of the idea to allow me to qui... Read more
Created locally in Nairobi, this sleek design creates a backup generator for the Internet. Even in the biggest cities in Africa, it’s not easy to get (and stay) online. But this small brick-... Read more
A new laser developed by a research group at Caltech holds the potential to increase by orders of magnitude the rate of data transmission in the optical-fiber network—the backbone of the Int... Read more
Imagine an Internet that enabled its users to slice and dice content into subsets of content relevant to their interests and needs, rather than top-down keyword searches that commercial sear... Read more
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in? When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee, purloined tens of thousands of classified doc... Read more
The immediacy and fast pace of the Internet can be magical. But when someone makes a comment that the masses disagree with, a mob with 140-character pitchforks can develop in seconds and the... Read more
The hidden dimensions of the world wide web are brought to life in stunning artworks by a Newcastle University academic. Dr Martyn Dade Robertson creates the Data Portraits by mapping websit... Read more
Which modern technology “enables us to send communications…with the quickness of thought, and to annihilate time as well as space”? If you answered “the internet,” you’re right. If you answe... Read more
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a “growing tide of surveillance and censorship”. The warning came as he launched... Read more
Stung by revelations of ubiquitous surveillance and compromised software, the internet’s engineers and programmers ponder how to fight back SECURITY guards (at least the good ones) are paid... Read more
A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be shared more efficiently. One colleague a... Read more
Will form the foundation for the future Internet infrastructure With optical fibre networks gradually approaching their theoretical capacity limits, new types of fibres such as multicore fib... Read more
Governments pose the biggest threat to global innovation, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton has warned. Speaking at LeWeb London, Alec Ross said the “hierarchy of control” is b... Read more
