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You have likely heard of influenza or the flu before but did you know there are two different types? Influenza A and B have ...

Does the superior quality of search results from dominant firms like Google stem primarily from better algorithms or from access to larger volumes of user-generated data?

We may use the internet every day, but we take the massive resource for granted. How much data is actually on the internet and how is it quantified?

There are so many angles and nuances and decisions about what facts to communicate, which voices to include. And this is the benefit of media plurality. In the zero-click world, we risk losing it ...

More school systems are providing digital devices for students to use in the classroom, making it harder to justify students ...

Across the United States, more schools are implementing policies restricting cell phones as concerns about digital ...

The history of the Internet can be roughly divided into three phases. The first, from 1969 to 1990, was all about the inventors: people like Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker, and Robert Taylor. These folks ...

Legendary tech investor Dan Niles breaks down the bull between the horns but warns of a fowl Thanksgiving surprise. Plus, ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container that was stashed ...