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 ...

The internet is massive. But does it have … actual mass? Big server farms and miles of fiber-optic cables do, of course, but we don’t mean the infrastructure of the internet. We mean the internet ...

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.

Welcome to the second article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven't already, read part one here. As a refresher, here's the story so far: The ARPANET was a project ...

A new estimate suggests that AI could use up all of the internet’s text data within the next few years. The next recourse could be private information, a new study warns. Artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Bot traffic has surpassed humans on the Internet. The winners in the next infrastructure cycle are the companies building ...

While humans built the internet, actual people aren’t the ones roaming the online space the most. A new report from Thales says bots accounted for more than 53% of all web traffic in 2025, up from 51% ...

NPR's Pien Huang speaks with writer s.e. smith about their piece in The Verge that explores why so many websites disappear from the internet and what it tells us about online culture. You've probably ...