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Text: The United States Navy’s next-generation aircraft carriers are rolling off the assembly line, with one massive flagship finally ready to begin operations, one fitting out, and three more on the way. Though plagued with unforeseen issues in some of their innovative components, these floating fo...

Text: [commission-disclosure][/commission-disclosure] [info]We’ve fully updated this list for 2026, and shaken things up: the Lenovo ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition takes the top spot as the truest white pick, and a white Chromebook has earned a place on the list for the first time.[/info] Here’s the dir...

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Text: Since its earliest days, the core of Google’s search algorithm - and its greatest innovation - has been ranking a page by the amount and quality of the links pointing to it. For almost as long, businesses have fought to climb to the lucrative top positions on search result pages, with some res...

Text: 1.5 million people are injured in traffic accidents on EU roads each year. Of those, 30,000 people lose their lives. Many of those deaths could have been prevented, had faster action been taken. According to a Swedish study cited by the European Commission, of the preventable fatalities, 5% of...

Text: This is part of a series of articles on the repercussions of AMP adoption. AMP is being given special attention due to its potential to centralize control of the way the web is built. Read more: Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there’s no choice but to use it An infuriatingly hacky situa...

Text: On our laptops, we’re used to being able to install anything we want. We download an app from the web, double-click that bad boy, and install it. In recent years, Microsoft or Apple may warn us against installing something outside of their stores, but they won’t stop us. On our phones, however...

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Text: The latest version of Android was released in August 2018. By late October 2018, the date Google published their most recently available statistics, it wasn’t even on 0.1% of devices, 81 days after release. The preceding version, 8.0 Oreo released in August 2017, was running on 21.5% of device...

Text: Reddit and Twitter are both large, anonymous social networks, but it’s only Twitter that is notorious for venomous abuse campaigns, rape threats, and death threats, often directed against prominent women, LGBTI people, and racial minorities. What is it about Reddit that keeps people safe from ...

Text: When Google first appeared, putting a keyword into Google Search returned pages that you could be certain contained the word exactly as is. It was a straight-forward, predictable way to search the web, but it meant that people who were less experienced with Google may struggle to get their queri...

Text: This is part of a series of articles on the repercussions of AMP adoption. AMP is being given special attention due to its potential to centralize control of the way the web is built. Read more: The hoops you’ll have to jump through to use your domain with AMP For those that don’t know, a very...