The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...
If the WiFi is running slowly, people do all sorts of things with their routers. Sometimes they change the router's location, ...
When you type 'pcmag.com' in the address bar, it’s no surprise that the browser quickly displays PCMag’s latest articles and reviews. But getting from your request to the page you seek isn’t as simple ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...
Comcast had a massive “outage” on Monday that affected Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Note that “outage” is in quotation marks, because the problem wasn’t with the physical links that made up ...