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Another day, another major internet outage. This time around, Google reported that it had experienced a global issue with its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking at 12:53 PM US Eastern

In 2021, you don’t have to wait for Black Friday to get great TV deals. Everyone is selling top-of-the-line televisions for excellent prices already. That’s because, in part, massive global

You know the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) for its Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, the most popular way of securing websites with TLS certificates. The group wants to do

Anyone can set up a Wi-Fi network. Setting up a 4G LTE or 5G network, that’s a different story. It took expensive, proprietary hardware from incumbent network equipment manufacturers. Now,

There’s rich — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with not quite $200-billion and Microsoft’s Bill Gates with $132-billion — and then there’s Elon Musk rich: Approximately $241-billion. But, according to a note,

“Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” Actually, if you use computers for pretty much anything, you do. Oh, you may not know it if

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are happening ever more often and growing ever bigger. At 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps), the DDoS attack Microsoft just successfully defended European Azure cloud

It took about six hours, a new record for Facebook downtime, but Facebook is finally back up. What happened? Here’s what we know so far. The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything

Yesterday, I had a dozen — count ’em a dozen — spam calls. My carrier, Verizon, does a good job of marking most of them as spam, but it’s not

It used to be that we could do okay with less than 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) internet.  That was before we filled our evenings with streaming movies and TV

The most important program on your PC is your web browser. Oh sure, your bread and butter work may be on QuickBooks, Photoshop, or Premiere Pro, but where do you

Microsoft In 1994, I’d already been covering the internet for years and I knew it was going to change the world. Microsoft still hadn’t come around to that idea. In

Sjvn I recently moved and along the way my faithful 2016 Sony XBR-75X850D, as such things do, suffered a fatal screen crack. It was time for something bigger and better.

(Image: Shutterstock) We rarely think about keeping time. As Chicago sang in the 60s, “Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?” But, technically, we care

Parallels Toolbox 4.5 for PCs, M1 and Intel Macs Parallels Toolbox 4.5 suite now supports M1-powered Macs, as well as introducing a revamped interface, and the addition of a customizable