What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
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Want to See a Magic Trick? You Can Turn on Your Computer From Across the House With Wake-on-LAN

Need to quickly turn on your PC from another room in your house? With Wake-on-LAN, you can. Here's how to set it up and why ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

What is Domain Name System? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web

When millions of people suddenly couldn't load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on ...
Windows Report

Quick Ways to Check Your Computer Name on Windows 11

Need to find your computer name in Windows 11? Follow these steps to locate the device name, hostname, or PC name with ease.
Pitchfork

I Love My Computer

Enter 26-year-old Nina Wilson, aka Ninajirachi. She wants to fuck her computer. Kind of. A track on her excellent, aggressively stimulating debut album I Love My Computer is called “Fuck My Computer,” ...
CNET

Will Windows 11 Run on Your Computer? Here's How to Check

Mary is an associate editor covering technology, culture and everything in between. She recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as an editor at The ...
CNET

Is Your Internet Connection Delivering on the Speeds You Pay For? Here’s How to Tell

Some free speed tests, including Ookla and Cloudflare, also give you download and upload scores for latency. These are referred to as “loaded latency” results, and they’re taken while the speed test ...