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Twenty years ago today, Intel launched the Pentium 60 CPU and changed the computing world for ever. Believe it or not, a revision of the original Pentium core still lives on today, in Intel’s bleeding-edge, 50-core Xeon Phi — a...

A post recently posted on a technology USENET newsgroup reports a recent study from Intel on what happens online on any given minute. According to Intel, the number of networked devices now matches the world’s population, which means the Internet...

Internet service providers are continuing to deliver the speeds they advertise, as consumers migrate to faster speeds, a USENET reports. The Federal Communications Commission has released its third “Measuring Broadband America” report and finds that Internet service providers (ISPs), on...

Consumer efforts to protect personal data and remain “invisible” online is leading to a “data black hole” that could adversely impact digital advertisers, according to USENET newsgroup reports. The move to seek “new tools that allow them to remain ‘invisible’...

A new FCC plan is rattling the bottom lines of wireless companies and cable outfits. It proposes a government run, free super WiFi network to connect online and to USENET that would be available in nearly every urban and rural...

For millions of Americans, having access to speedy Internet and USENET is still an impossibility. The FCC has promised it would fix this when it announced the National Broadband Plan in 2010. Since then, there hasn’t been much progress made...