Rapid digitization is driving increasing research on the online safety of children worldwide1, yet the impact of increasing digital connectivity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been routinely overlooked2,3. This gap is particularly important for Africa, where over 60% of citizens are aged under 25 years and the population is projected to double by 20504, and for Asia, home to the majority of the world's children and social media users2,3. While many initiatives across both regions have focused on digital inclusion to benefit children's education5, understanding how widening internet access affects children's exposure to online harms has become increasingly urgent.
Do we really need to hire people to help connect phone calls through manually plugging cables into the right sockets these days? Given that everyone has their own personal cellphone now, unfortunately, we think not. This job requires a lot of patience and careful work, but the modern age is slowly deeming it unnecessary.
Google released the May 2026 core update on Thursday at around 11:43 am ET and said, "The rollout may take up to 2 weeks to complete." So what are we seeing? There is a lot of chatter across social, WebmasterWorld and this site - here is some of that chatter: Core update: that explains the sharp drop yesterday: again 50%. Another awful core "update". The only upside is that Google SERPs were already fantastically bad before this update, so the impact won't matter much.
Wi‑Fi has become a foundation of modern business, powering everything from office work and schools to hospitals, factories, retail systems and connected devices. As more devices come online, wireless networks are being asked to handle more traffic, more users and more demanding applications. That pressure is pushing companies to look beyond faster speeds and focus more on reliability, automation and smarter network management.
Your wish is our command. Disco icons available on Pixel as of today...Are y'all sure you still want this? His post included a screenshot of a Pixel phone fully decked out with sparkly, disco-ball-inspired icons, which looks just as terrible (incredible??) as it sounds.
The early net.art artists believed they did not need curators, institutions, or galleries. They built their own infrastructures through mailing lists such as nettime and saw themselves as outsiders, if not “refugees from the art system,” as Ćosić puts it. “We knew we didn't need to talk to people like you,” he jokes, referring to curators.
Google thinks that it's good to speak out loud and so, to that end, is bringing more conversational features to Gmail, Docs and Keep in the form of Live. Gmail Live, for instance, will let you ask your inbox a natural language question to save you the turmoil of having to search for the keyword yourself. In its example, say you're rushing to the airport and need to know your gate number, you can now just ask the system "What's my flight's gate number?" while hoping the system isn't hallucinating.
London has always moved faster than everywhere else. The city that adopted the Oyster card before most of Britain had heard of contactless, and switched to tap-to-pay before the rest of the country had stopped carrying wallets, is doing it again. As we have covered across London's shifting spending and lifestyle habits, the way Londoners pay for digital entertainment is changing, and the direction is firmly toward mobile billing.
The blackout continues to this day, and it is forcing a country of more than 90 million people to find alternative ways to stay informed, stay in touch with loved ones, study, and keep their businesses afloat. The digital shutdown has meant that Google Maps isn't working, that data and emails are lost, that paying a taxi driver through an app has become a real challenge.
