Internet

Opera will soon come with a free and unlimited VPN

There was a time when Opera was at the forefront of web browser innovation, and some of the features that it...
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ProtonMail ditched its invite system and launched its apps

Living in a post-Snowden world, it’s hard to know which online services you can trust with your information, and that’s spawned...
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Facebook wants to be the dictionary for the language of the internet

Often times, it seems like conversing with people on the internet requires knowledge of a completely different form of English from...
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Google wants businesses and celebrities to post on its search results

Google Search has evolved quite a lot over the years, especially with how it presents information. While you still see the traditional...
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We need an alternative to passwords because people are idiots

Most of us have enough personal information stored on our devices and online accounts that a malicious hacker could do some...
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You can now stream pirated content directly from The Pirate Bay

Remember how Popcorn Time returned from the brink of death with a new website that allows users to stream pirated movies and...
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Popcorn Time has declared war on “righteous content monopolies”

Oh, you thought Popcorn Time was dead? Well think again, because the Netflix for Pirates is back and better than ever,...
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Google eliminated nearly 800 million crappy ads last year

One of the downsides of running some the of the largest advertising networks on the Internet is that there’s always going...
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These were the most commonly used passwords of 2015

It baffles my mind that most people in developed nations have tons of experience with the Internet at this point, and...
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Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday with a new source of cash

Wikipedia is celebrating its fifteenth birthday today, which is practically ancient as far as Internet years go. In those fifteen years, the website...
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ProPublica is the first major news website to arrive on the Dark Web

ProPublica has become the first major news website in the world to release a version of its website that’s optimized for...
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AOL search is now entirely powered by Bing

Although it had a rough start, Bing has actually become an excellent search engine, and the only one in Western markets...
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After months of running, The Pirate Bay is right back where it started

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down...
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Game of Thrones was the most-pirated show of the year… again

Game of Thrones has won or been nominated for numerous awards over the years, but there’s one award that I’m sure...
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China will soon require companies to let it bypass their encryption

Despite the numerous protests of Western technology companies, and even a warning from President Obama himself, China’s legislature voted unanimously to pass the...
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The world’s first website is now a quarter century old

It’s weird how the Web still feels like a new thing in a lot of ways, but it’s actually older than many...
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