Before there was high-speed internet in the 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 ...

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 ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic caused public institutions, including libraries, to shut down, the Internet Archive launched the National Emergency Library (NEL) to operate until the end of the national ...

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in ...

We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow suit and vanish from the earth? It doesn’t seem like it, at ...

A new library on the Web offers children—and their parents and teachers—a place to read children’s books from around the globe. The International Children’s Digital Library, launched last week at ...

The fate of a nonprofit online book library is in the hands of a judge after four book publishers filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Reading time 2 minutes A federal judge heard oral ...

With an internet hotspot device, users are free to move about, untethered to the library or stationery internet provider. They may, for example, take time to sight-seeing the world's largest easel in ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...