internet
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Sale Of .Org Registry To Private Equity Vampires Stalled After California AG Warning
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organisation that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning
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How To Improve Your Wi-Fi Speeds When Everyone’s Home
Chances are, your home internet is under a lot more strain than normal at the moment: With schools and workplaces temporarily closing all across the globe, you might well be fighting with your family or your housemates for any available bandwidth. If you want to limit buffering and maximise speeds, we’ve got a few tips…
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Japan Offers 10Gbps Internet While Australians Weep
Since the NBN project was introduced to Australia, the country’s speed rankings, when compared to the rest of the world, have been woeful. Rubbing salt into the wounds, some of Japan’s telcos have just announced they’re offering 10Gbps monthly plans.
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Why Is Social Media So Addictive?
Social media is awful and whatever pleasures it confers in the form of mildly amusing memes or a fleeting sense of community/belonging are massively outweighed by its well-documented downsides whose psychic consequences are of interest to its owners only in the sense that past a certain threshold people might turn away from their platforms and…