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'Your ad here' graffiti

Brace yourself: AdBlock Plus is now selling ads

AJ Dellinger— September 13

arcade game high score

This ‘game’ lets you literally buy a place on the leaderboard

AJ Dellinger— May 31

Facebook abstract

Study finds link between problematic drinking and problematic Facebooking

Molly Stier— April 5

icons

A new Chrome extension called ‘Go F*cking Work’ refuses to let you get distracted

Marisa Kabas— March 13

globe

The United States is a small fish on this map of the world’s web domains

AJ Dellinger— March 10

eBay knows there’s a horrible malware vulnerability in its code but hasn’t fixed it

AJ Dellinger— February 3

Firefox now lets websites push notifications without being open

AJ Dellinger— January 27

Stressed on laptop

This all-knowing web tool will revolutionize the way students research

Selena Larson— January 5

google chrome ad

9 million Google Chrome users were made vulnerable by a web security plug-in

AJ Dellinger— December 30

Oldweb.today lets you browse the Internet like it’s 1999

AJ Dellinger— December 8

Why users are waging war against Instagram’s confusing policies on nude selfies

S.E. Smith— July 2

The failed Time Warner-Comcast deal is just the start of America’s telecom nightmare

S.E. Smith— April 28

Flo Rida and Hoda doing the Twizzler Challenge

How the Ice Bucket Challenge ruined the Internet

S.E. Smith— April 23

Three people with mobile phones

The future of the Internet is on your phone

S.E. Smith— April 22

A woman at her computer with a man looming at the window

How death threats became the new normal

S.E. Smith— April 17

A person seated at a typewriter, covered in crumpled paper.

Can Google kill content farms at last?

S.E. Smith— March 4

A data visualization

How data brokers sell your health information online

S.E. Smith— February 25

Samsung Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S

Find exactly the smartphone you’re looking for with this interactive tool

Mike Wehner— February 6

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