Google WiFi is *the* solution for bum routers — and 3-packs are on sale for $60 off at Amazon

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The router market is a war zone.

Each brand has infinite models, and trying to compare devices with 10-digit long names and four antennas gets old fast. There’s a much simpler way, guys:

Google WiFi. That’s it. That’s the name.

Arguably the prettiest setup on the market, the Google WiFi system offers the ease that you thought was impossibleThree packs are on sale for $60 off at Amazon today — grab one and see what you’ve been missing.

Google WiFi replaces your old, shitty router system and syncs with your modem and ISP to create a mesh network. First used in large-scale operations like hospitals, military bases, and even in the aftermath of hurricanes when the internet was down, mesh systems work on radio signals and ride on the connection of their sister devices to amp each other up.  Read more…

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You can now register .dev domains

Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. At the time, Google acquired gTLD’s like .app, .page and .dev (for some reason, Google also owns .soy). Right now, the .dev […]

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Amazon buys Eero: What does it mean for your privacy?

In case you hadn’t seen, Amazon is buying router maker Eero. And in case you hadn’t heard, people are pretty angry. Deluged in a swarm of angry tweets and social media posts, many have taken to reading tealeaves to try to understand what the acquisition means for ordinary privacy-minded folks like you and me. Not […]

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Amazon buys Eero: What does it mean for your privacy?

In case you hadn’t seen, Amazon is buying router maker Eero. And in case you hadn’t heard, people are pretty angry. Deluged in a swarm of angry tweets and social media posts, many have taken to reading tealeaves to try to understand what the acquisition means for ordinary privacy-minded folks like you and me. Not […]

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Amazon buys Eero: What does it mean for your privacy?

In case you hadn’t seen, Amazon is buying router maker Eero. And in case you hadn’t heard, people are pretty angry. Deluged in a swarm of angry tweets and social media posts, many have taken to reading tealeaves to try to understand what the acquisition means for ordinary privacy-minded folks like you and me. Not […]

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A survival guide for being a woman on the internet

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This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. 


Once upon a time, in the foggy kingdom of San Francisco, I was in an Uber checking my notifications. Suddenly, I discovered a man I have never met who lived in the far away kingdom of North Carolina posted a photo of me on Instagram, claiming I was stalking him. 

The Instagram post went viral, and people started digging into this man’s (or, perhaps troll’s) online history. Soon, the Twitter kingdom would discover virtually all his social media posts were a lie. From photoshopping images of women he had never met to claims of fake career accomplishments to describing fake accidents, the distorted reality he had built for himself over the course of five years was as impressive as it was creepy. Even Seth Rogen chimed in on how he hadn’t, in fact, met this fellow at a charity golf tournament. (Surprise: The photo he shared of Rogen was actually that of a wax statue Read more…

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FanAI buys Waypoint Media to better track fan engagement for streaming monetization

FanAI, an audience analysis platform for eSports and streaming, is buying New York-based Waypoint Media to improve its analytics tools for eSports players and streamers. The deal means that Waypoint’s Twitch Middleware API and the “Raven” tracking and URL shortener will be added to FanAI’s product portfolio. The middleware tech has the ability to track every […]

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To fight election meddling, Google’s cyber unit Jigsaw extends its anti-DDoS protections to European politicos

Jigsaw, the cybersecurity-focused division owned by Google parent Alphabet, is now allowing political organizations in Europe to sign up for its anti-web-flooding technology for free. Until now, the free-to-use technology designed to protect political campaigns and websites against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — dubbed Project Shield — was only available to news sites and journalists, human […]

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Zimbabwe’s government faces off against its tech community over internet restrictions

Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Harley Davidson reveals more about its push into electric vehicles Venture capital, global expansion, blockchain and drones characterize African tech in 2018 After days of intermittent blackouts at the […]

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6 of the best WiFi routers for increasing your wireless connectivity in the UK

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As people and homes become more connected, the need for WiFi connectivity continues to increase. This is where having a quality WiFi router, sometimes called a wireless router, becomes essential. Which WiFi router you choose will depend on a number of factors, including the size of your coverage area, the number of devices connecting, and the types of devices connecting to the router. Not only are they easy to install, they can help provide WiFi coverage throughout your home and ensure lightning fast connection speeds.  

Whether you’re looking for a no-frills, single band WiFi router or a full-fledged dual band (or even tri-band) model to handle an entire family’s streaming and gaming needs, we’ve got the 6 best WiFi router options to fit your needs. Read more…

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I know who is behind the Instagram egg, but does it matter?

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What came first, the cracks in the internet as a force for good or the egg

Much has been written about the world record-breaking Instagram egg over the past weeks, but very little is known about the person behind it. 

The internet went into frenzy mode, with newsrooms rolling up their digital forensic investigation sleeves, trying to figure out the “why” of this egg by investigating the “who.” Even Ellen DeGeneres was obliged, reluctantly, to acknowledge the power of the egg and send off an invite: “Egg, if you’re listening, I want you on the show,” she said. Read more…

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These are all the federal HTTPS domains that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown

We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bring you this. During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate, which lights up your browser with “HTTPS” or flashes a padlock, on many domains had expired. And because […]

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