Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries. reader comments 7 Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday due to damage to submarine fiber optic cables. Some countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, are still suffering… Read More »
Enlarge / A service center for “Kyivstar”, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, that provides communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies. Getty Images reader comments 76 Ukrainian civilians on Wednesday grappled for a second day of widespread cellular phone and Internet outages after a cyberattack, purportedly carried out… Read More »
Banj Edwards | Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 112 with “When checking the system this morning, I noticed your account logged in for over 20 hours,” begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. “Our service is unlimited, but we ask that you… Read More »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 56 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no… Read More »
bjdlzx | Getty Images reader comments 75 with 45 posters participating Share this story More than 22,000 miles above Earth, the KA-SAT is locked in orbit. Traveling at 7,000 miles per hour, in sync with the planet’s rotation, the satellite beams high-speed Internet down to people across Europe. Since 2011, it has helped homeowners, businesses,… Read More »
reader comments 46 with 34 posters participating Share this story What could the future of the Internet look like? With the digital world of the 21st century becoming a pit of unwanted ads, tracking, paywalls, unsafe content, and legal threats, “Wayforward Machine” has a dystopian picture in mind. Behind the clickbaity name, Wayforward Machine is… Read More »
Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not. Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX reader comments 98 with 61 posters participating Share this story Scientists have known for decades that an extreme solar storm, or coronal mass ejection, could damage electrical grids and potentially… Read More »
Enlarge / A wild beaver works furiously in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Getty Images | Jeff R Clow reader comments 85 with 59 posters participating Share this story About 900 Internet users in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, lost service for 36 hours when beavers chewed through an underground fiber cable in what network… Read More »
Enlarge / Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has a much different workflow than creatives in the United States. Cassandra Brooklyn reader comments 41 with 23 posters participating Share this story As countless Cubans have proudly told me over the years, “Cubans invent.” They use creative workarounds to get by in an environment with limited… Read More »