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Sony leaked memo reveals Hollywood is trying to force SOPA regulations without the obviousness of a SOPA law.

A news article by Gigaom with several interesting/concerning stories about how people are possibly becoming addicted to the internet.

They are ready to be injected into the most delicate areas of a human body -- the heart and the brain -- to deliver drugs with extreme precision or work like an army of nano surgeons, operating from within.

Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana is now available on the Windows 10 Technical Preview. Cortana -- who is named after the AI co-star in Microsoft's Halo series -- is the company's answer to Siri and Google Now. She takes over the operating system's search functionality, tackling local searches as well as helping you track down stuff on the Web.

Remember when AT&T issued a high-decibel shriek that reclassifying ISPs as common carriers would kill off its ability to invest in future network buildouts and upgrades? Well, it turns out that not every ISP thinks that way.

The size of the largest distributed denial-of-service attack was 50 times larger last year than 10 years ago, according to a new survey of Internet service and hosting providers, and attacks are also increasing in numbers and in sophistication.

Short and simple 5 minute video expaining the difference

A quick video describing IP addressing and how it works.

Sort of a hippie-dippie view of the internet but probably one of the best descriptions of why the internet works, not how.

Oh, this is a ted talk. you can also see it on netflix

This article explains the difference between the Internet and Wifi. It also highlights and defines things about routers, modems, internet service providers and ethernet.