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Despite Internet speed improvements in nearly every state, most US residents are still surfing the Web at less than 10Mbps, according to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report.

Google Fiber offers gigabit Internet access -- speeds 100 times faster than national averages -- for just $70 per month.Google I've seen the future. It's called gigabit Internet by Google Fiber, and it just launched in my hometown of Provo, Utah, the second of three scheduled cities to get speeds that are 100 times faster than the rest of America.

This is the sound of the Internet calling, circa 1995

The drone, called Aquila, is the baby of Facebook's year-old Connectivity Lab. The lab has been developing new technology as part of the social network's mission to "connect everybody in the world." Four billion people don't have access to the Internet, and 10% of the world's population lacks the necessary infrastructure to get online.

Myriam Gumuchian is the fourth generation of her family to make jewelry. But she told CNBC the visual aspect of social media is working in reaching her customers. "Women can relate when they see a picture of a ring on a finger, or a necklace or an earring," Myriam said, adding that "we like to show how it's worn in real time.

In an open letter to US president Barack Obama, Cisco's outspoken CEO John Chambers called on the president to rein in the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) after it was revealed the agency routinely tapped Cisco network hardware being exported outside the US, before putting it back into the supply chain.

This device can speed up argon ions down a 5-millimeter track by using an electrical field to accelerate it instead of magnets.

That's awesome come on anti matter. But really I see a lot of good research coming from this.

This tells the real story and background and launching of Twitter which was originally called Twttr.

Posted: Open source software (OSS) now has a permanent role in the enterprise IT world. Gartner forecasts that open-source technology will be included in 85% of all commercial software packages by 2015 and 95% of mainstream IT organizations will leverage some element of OSS.

Over the course of the last few days, I've written a number of articles related to the celebrity photo thefts that surfaced Sunday. Many of those posts have focused on how safe - or unsafe - various cloud service providers are.

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.

Data is what makes today's business world go 'round, and IBM on Thursday launched a suite of new tools designed to help companies make the most of what they've got. Targeting developers and data scientists, the four new offerings are part of IBM's Cloud Data Services portfolio.

This is more of a sponsored post/Ad than it is a real new story, but it is still interesting to see how personal storage is changing. These hard drives being sold by Western Digital are able to back-up local files and then allow those files to be accessed from anywhere, while still keeping your data off of the servers of a large company.

The use of a newly developed Nano-Coating has overcome the problem of hot-cracking, which use to stand in the way of 3D-printing high-strength aluminium alloy parts.

"I think increasingly what's happening is, partly as a result of the kinds of devices that are being manufactured and that people are buying, people are moving toward a more consumption-based Internet experience from a production-based experience."

"Google Reader service ending. Feedly is planning to launch a clone of the service"

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (TV mini-series 1998)