Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

A pair of horses recently towed an antique piece of farm equipment through a cornfield in Kresgeville. In their wake, columns of cornstalks fell to the ground, already bound together and tied with ...

From the dawn of human history, people, cultures, and civilisations have developed various forms of communication, which involve the sending or receiving of messages, or the message itself.Through ...

The internet has many birthdays. ARPANET, the research forerunner to today’s commercial network, was born Oct. 29, 1969, when ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The technologist and professor Mindy Seu was having drinks when her friend casually referred to the phone as a sex ...

Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network. Cloudflare, ...