The Verge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. If this latest effort to modernize Antarctica’s internet is a success, scientists say it would transform both research and daily life on the frozen continent. “It

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pointed out , the United States has long funded programs that support technologies that enhance privacy, fight censorship, and support internet freedomand this order is directly undermining those programs.

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