Category: internet
Threads is one, and it may be the best social media platform you’re still not using
Threads, the social media platform from Meta I didn’t know I wanted or needed, is officially one year old – and I’m still using it. That’s quite an accomplishment. Threads arrived on July 5, 2023, like an amiable social media savior. It didn’t do a lot, and owed much of…
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Threads is celebrating its birthday with a hidden cake giving away cool new icons
Threads is about to turn one, as Meta’s answer to X (née Twitter), officially hit the scene on July 5, 2023. Zuck sent out a pre-celebration Thread calling out more than 175 million active users on the platform, but another birthday treat is hidden in the app. Whether you’re on…
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Struggling with your broadband? A new internet speed record just hit 402Tbps – fast enough to download a 4K movie in under a millisecond
How fast an internet connection do you really want? Well, that probably varies – based on your needs, not to mention your budget for the monthly payment – but odds are you might regard 402Tbps as overkill. Yes, we didn’t mistype that – 402Tbps, as in Terabytes – and as…
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YouTube Premium subscribers just got access to 5 new features
If you’re paying out for YouTube Premium every month, there are five new features now rolling out for you to take advantage of, covering YouTube Shorts, smart downloads, improved navigation, and – of course – AI. As explained in a post on the official YouTube blog, the new features aim…
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This One Million Checkbox game is sparking an internet war – and it’s taken hours of our life we’ll never get back
A lot of the time, the most addictive games are the simplest ones, and so we present to you One Million Checkboxes. You can get the gist of this new game from its title, but the gameplay simply involves you checking and unchecking as many boxes as you like. Simple,…
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I’m writing this because I know my Gen Z offspring will never read it – and that’s OK
Is Gen Z really different from the rest of us? The alchemy of being born between 1997 and 2012 has delivered a generation of not exactly non-conformists but some seemingly disengaged youths. I mean, they must be disengaged because they see everything differently. Or is it more clearly? Jigsaw, which…
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