Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

The modern internet didn’t happen by accident. It took decades of work to turn what once was an obscure network used by a small number of academics into a global phenomenon reaching about half the ...

The federal government wants to bring fiber connections to every home. In the meantime, some areas will still rely on the library. Over the coming days, we’ll explore how $42 billion of that spending ...

When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback. "People scoffed and said, 'Why would you go ...

Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit perhaps best known for its Wayback ...

Attorneys representing the Internet Archive are determining their next steps to try to save the website’s free e-book lending program after an appeals court recently upheld an earlier ruling that it ...

When schools in Kentucky closed for several days last month due to severe flooding, students suddenly began showing up at the Bullitt County Public Library. They had come for the internet. To pay for ...

The Brooklyn Public Library hosted a digital resource fair at the newly-opened Sunset Park Library on Dec. 16, where the team spent the day showing off their digital and technical resources and ...

Back in 2018, Forbes sent Twitter into fury with a now-retracted column. Its big idea: Amazon should replace libraries because it has “provided something better.” The Kindles, Netflixes and Starbucks ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Got internet? If not, the Oak Ridge Public Library may be able to help. The library announced that Wi-Fi hotspots are available to be checked out. The devices can be placed on hold ...

Before there was high-speed internet in Santo Domingo Pueblo, a tribal community about 40 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, leaders would pass around a Verizon hotspot to help run their tribal ...