As part of Wired’s in-depth profile on Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, the 33-year-old discussed how he wants to clean up the internet—but it’s proving difficult. The company is using DeepText (a word …
While many people have been following NASA (and various individual astronauts, astrophysicists and scientists) online for some time, 2016 was the government entity’s biggest year yet. Or, as Quartz says, “a bunch …
Only in the last ten years has Mount Everest received both cell service and substantial wifi. Prior to this, there were very few developments aside from the launch of satellite phones—still deemed …
With all the internet trends that have come and gone, there’s one thing that has never changed: people’s overwhelming love for Wikipedia. A new study conducted by the Knight Foundation found that …
Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of email, has died at the age of 74. NY-born Tomlinson was the first to develop a way to send messages between two different computers back in 1971, …
While humans are no less interested in porn, the ways in which we consume it have killed the “lads mags” of yesteryear. Playboy has suspended use of nudity and Penthouse has folded …