Cold-water immersion may offer health benefits — and also presents risks

Tipton and Harper both said that any benefits from cold-water immersion come from the body’s cold-shock response: the sudden ...
IGN

Cancellations, Anger, and Frantic Subscription Stacking — the Internet Reacts to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass Price Hike

As the dust settled on Microsoft’s shock price rise for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which jumped 50% from $19.99 to $29.99 in the U.S. in what amounts to an extra $120 a year, fans reacted with a mixture ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Two Cables and the Hidden Subsea Battle Between US and China

A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic It was a February night off Taiwan’s southwest coast when cargo ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his ...
Android Police

Mint Mobile's bold move could reshape 5G home internet

Timi is a news and deals writer who's been reporting on technology for over a decade. He loves breaking down complex subjects into easy-to-read pieces that keep you informed. But his recent passion ...
CBS News

Afghanistan gets the internet back 2 days after Taliban's unexplained web shutdown

Internet services in Afghanistan came back online Wednesday, restoring vital communication and web connectivity for residents two days after the Taliban government blocked web access nationally ...
Human Rights Watch

Taliban’s Internet Ban Further Silences Afghan Women, Girls

Last week, the Taliban ordered an internet ban across several of Afghanistan’s northern provinces. On September 30, they fully shut down the internet, both mobile and fibre optic, nationwide. The ...
UPI

Afghanistan's flights disrupted amid Internet blackout

Sept. 30 (UPI) --Air travel was disrupted Tuesday in Afghanistan after the Taliban government shut down the Internet across the country. The Internet blackout began Monday, according to NetBlocks, a ...
USA Today

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...
The New York Times

Afghanistan Has Nationwide Internet Blackout, Monitors Say

The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.” By Elian Peltier Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan ...
The Washington Post

Afghanistan’s internet goes down amid fears of a Taliban crackdown

The internet, now in widespread blackout, has been a lifeline for Afghan women trying to access education — and for Taliban officials trying to run the country. The internet went down across much of ...