TCP/IP, the communication protocol computers must follow to communicate with each other over the Internet, can be disabled in Windows relatively easily. This action will disable your Internet ...

Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good thing may not be such a good thing at all. The Internet Engineering Task Force is putting the final touches on ...

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christerfer James, 100th Communication Squadron Cyber Transport supervisor, runs cable Sept. 4, 2015, on RAF Mildenhall, England. James was granting RAF Mildenhall users the ...

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways ...

The Internet has (sort of) run out of space. The regional organization tasked with assigning IP addresses in North America, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), is now wait-listing all ...

A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...