Internet

Fear of cyberattacks should not lead us to destroy what makes the Internet special

Get ready for IPv6: The explosive global growth of connected devices has nearly depleted the 4.3 billion addresses of Internet protocol version 4

Preliminary investigations indicate that most of the country's ISPs cut Internet access within a 20-minute period, likely at the government's behest

The controversial measure will let broadband providers prioritize Internet content, but detractors say the government is fixing something that is not broken

In this second article of a four-part series commemorating the World Wide Web's 20th birthday, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains how online games and other Web-enabled social machines build machine intelligence--and help us, too

International governments and ISPs gather at Columbia University to discuss speeds and limits of data networks

Google's spat with China could reshape traditional online freedoms

With a 35 percent nonresponse rate in 2000 and a projected cost of $14.5 billion for 2010, some demographers are looking for better ways to collect demographic data

How the Internet giant could use its might in closed societies

Computer scientist Sep Kamvar discusses the ways researchers are beginning to tap the blogosphere for psychological insights

The next generation of Fords will feature a number of new voice- and touch-activated controls

NEPTUNE Canada, the world's largest regional cabled undersea network, promises to usher in a new era of ocean science when it goes online December 8*