From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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WhatsApp has gone down for a number of users, with many reporting issues on DownDetector. A spike in reports on DownDetector suggests that there may be widespread ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

A major outage at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare knocked parts of the internet offline, disrupting access to X, NJ Transit, ChatGPT and other major platforms ...

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WebSockets is a network communication protocol that enables two-way client-server communication. WebSockets are often used for applications that require instantaneous updates, using a persistent ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. More than a decade after its debut, Apple Maps is getting its largest expansion ever — and making a big move to ...

Try adding ping_interval=None instead of ping_interval=5. If that works, then the problem could be that the server attempts to UTF-8-decode the payload of pings, which is incorrect — nothing says that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you've perused through the tool section at any number of different stores, you've likely come across a device called a "universal socket." ...