February 20, 2018 Church steeples in UK becoming Wi-Fi hotspots in effort to connect rural villages A recent agreement between the UK and the Church of England has paved the way for parishes to put up their own Wi-Fi transmitters by cutting out the bureaucratic red tape and streamlining the process to allow broadband operators to install their equipment.
February 17, 2018 Tech Q&A: Boosting Wi-Fi, finding phone numbers, picking a streaming service and more I am so frustrated by the crappy Wi-Fi in my house. I try this and that, and nothing really works. Help me Obi-Wan Komando!
November 12, 2017 How to keep mooches and spies off your Wi-Fi network and out of your files People love to mooch Wi-Fi. They don’t mean any harm. They just find an unprotected signal and sign on. Why not? It’s free, and nobody will even know. Your neighbor won’t mind if you steal a little broadband to watch Netflix, right?
October 17, 2017 Wi-Fi encryption can be hacked and anyone can spy on your internet activity Equifax and Yahoo disclosed major security breaches recently, which are quite scary, especially the former.
September 26, 2017 Teen sent to internet addiction camp dies within 48 hours A Chinese couple sent their teenage son to an internet addiction treatment camp—and within days, he was dead.
September 25, 2017 How to stay private on public Wi-Fi If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Avoid doing anything you would not want anyone in the world to know on public Wi-Fi. You may think you're safe in that busy café or big-name hotel, but public Wi-Fi is a major liability.
September 18, 2017 Verizon ditches 8,500 rural customers for 'using too much data' Verizon Wireless plans to disconnect 8,500 rural customers from its network, citing the roaming charges the customers rack up.
April 20, 2017 Silicon Valley invests $120M in hilariously inessential juicer The Juicero juice machine—basically a fancy WiFi-enabled Keurig machine but for juice—was already an "unnecessary luxury," the Verge reports.
April 16, 2017 Tech Q&A: Marketing on social media, buying a smart TV, shopping without Craigslist and more Q. My home's Wi-Fi connection seems to drop constantly, especially in certain rooms around the house. What could be causing this? And are there fixes I can do to stop this annoying problem?
March 24, 2017 High-tech school bus 'study hall' helps students in South Carolina More than two dozen school buses in a rural county in South Carolina have a Wi-Fi connection to help students with their homework.
