CENI took over a decade to build and now links 40 Chinese cities with over 55,000 kilometers of optic fiber. State media says ...

For the past two years, Rohit Prasad led the creation of Amazon Nova and Amazon's artificial generative intelligence (AGI) unit organisation.

The EY Government State and Local 2025 Survey Findings demonstrate that, despite budget constraints, nearly half of government IT leaders in the US prioritize workforce upskilling, recognizing its ...

A young engineer who would one day become CEO of SAA and one of the fathers of the Internet installed South Africa’s first ...

Sam Altman wants to recreate Bell Labs. So does President Donald Trump's administration. And Mark Zuckerberg. And Jeff Bezos. In recent weeks, a wave of announcements has revealed Silicon Valley's ...

The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought ...

At the end of World War II, U.S. military officials knew they had a problem: Military communication was a mess. Communiqués about Japanese landings would get mixed up with messages about what officers ...

The internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the world has ever seen. Though there are more fixed and mobile telephone connections, even they use internet technology in their ...

On October 29, 1969, a team of scientists at UCLA sent the first message over ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The message was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the system crashed after the ...

The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between ...

In an era where the answers to the most random questions — like the indoor land speed record or the Earth's weight — are just a few clicks away, we often take for granted the colossal network that ...