The Pew Internet & American Life research project has determined after endless polling and number crunching that 62 percent of American dial-up users have no interest in upgrading their connections to something a bit more peppy.

Place the words “blog” or “social media” and “politician” in the same line, and you almost invariably conjure images of a scandal. Or at least a messy exchange between writer/publisher and politician.

Some may argue that the best way to learn about history is to go back in time. In the absence of an actual time machine, you can make a short — really short — trip to the past through this online time-machine interface.

This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

An amphibious snake-like robot ACM-R5 can operate both on ground and in water undulating its long body. Watch video and photos to see how it moves.

The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ''.com,'' making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.