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Brian Snyder/Reuters The Many Americans Who Only Use Smartphones to Go Online
One in five adults in the United States connects to the Internet without desktops or laptops.
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Maria Elena/Flickr Facebook Is Bigger Than the Internet
Millions of the social-networking site's users have no idea they’re using the Internet when they log onto their profiles.
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David Mercado/Reuters Translating the Web
Serving global audiences means more than just breaking language barriers.
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Chris Hadfield/NASA Earth, as Seen by Chris Hadfield
The retired astronaut presents the best snapshots he captured of our planet from space.
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Images Money/Flickr Gambling's Future: No House Advantage?
Casinos don't always have to win, according to the makers of an upcoming online version that's connecting players without taking a cut.
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Erik De Castro/Reuters How to Count the World's Unconnected Billions
Just because your grandmother once Skyped with your infant son doesn’t make either one of them an Internet user.
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Alex Griffiths Inside the Hidden World of Offline Auctions for Online Property
Bidders come from far and wide to snap up the web's latest batch of unclaimed domain names.
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Microsoft The Future of Microsoft, According to New CEO Satya Nadella
If software is eating the world, Microsoft wants a bigger bite.
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Eddie Keogh/Reuters Why Eton, Britain's 574-Year-Old High School, Is Embracing Ed Tech
"It would be very foolish of us to bury our heads in the sand and assume that education in schools will carry on in the traditional way,” says Eton's head of IT.
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AP/Craig Ruttle Oh, No! Auto-Playing Video Ads Are Coming to Facebook
“Shoot, where’s the mute button?”
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Facebook The World's Top 25 Facebook Check-Ins
If there's one thing that unites people around the globe, it's Disneyland.
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Dropcam 7 Supposedly Futuristic Technologies From Dave Eggers's The Circle That Already Exist
If you don't do any research, you may wind up "predicting" the present.
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Reuters The Shutdown Will Ruin Scientific Work in Antarctica
By October 14, the United States Antarctic Program will run out of money. With research suspended, both short-term studies and long-running data sets will be rendered useless.
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PRISM Just Gave Russia an Excuse to Step Up Its War on Social Networks
People "receive special content that is undermining the authority of the state and the values of the established state," the deputy prime minister says.
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What Google and NSA Snoops Have in Common
The world's Internet companies got rich behaving just like our government's intelligence apparatus.
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Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography
Maps have always been distorted. Now that distortion is Google's selling point.
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The Unofficial Apple Store in Afghanistan
The store sells five or six iPhones and one or two laptops every day, mostly to young locals who work for private companies.
