From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

Trisha Jandoc is a writer at CNET, covering broadband, emerging technology, digital equity, and consumer reviews. Originally from the Philippines and based in New York City, she holds a bachelor's ...

For most of the history of the internet, there was a pretty straightforward arrangement between Google and the rest of the web. Google would crawl and index websites so that when people searched for ...

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The internet is a global network of servers that moves and stores data using hardware, software, and protocols. Wi-Fi is a local wireless network that distributes the internet signal to devices in ...

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

This piece is part of a series on the great internet letdown. Read the rest of the series. When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say.

In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized back then, and sometimes called just “Internet”) was itself just 11 years old, and mostly the domain of researchers and hobbyists and ...