Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect ...

A screenshot from the ICANN website. Flip the switch and the lights go on. Hit the starter button and the engine turns over. Key in an Internet domain name and the Web page pops open. How does it all ...

The U.S. is planning to transition critical Internet technical functions to the global Internet community. This will impact every Internet user, and you have the power to shape the outcome By now, the ...

The recent ICANN meeting in London highlighted two issues that appear unrelated on the surface but link current concerns about how to manage Internet Governance going forward. One is the transition of ...

Older adults may not use the internet as much as younger people. A survey of older adults in European countries collected data on internet use as well as other information about their lives.

The Supreme Court this week announced it will take up a pair of cases that could fundamentally change the legal foundations of the internet. Both cases ask the justices to consider how far protections ...

In dealing with cases on Internet censorship, music piracy, and digital GPS tracking, the Supreme Court needs a good understanding of how the Internet functions. So it's with a fair amount of worry to ...

Internet cookies do a lot of things. They allow people to sign in to websites. They make internet comments possible. And, yes, cookies are also the thing that lets advertisers follow users around the ...

The world would be a very different place without the internet. The shared space of GIFs, memes and social media was actually born in 1969. It wasn’t the Internet as we know it, but the first computer ...