Google announced today that the Chrome web browser will load all public websites via secure HTTPS connections by default and ask for permission before connecting to public, insecure HTTP websites, ...

Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent for 2026 and 3.2 percent for 2027, revised slightly up since the October 2025 World Economic Outlook. Economic research is a fundamental activity at the IMF.

The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries. Research also reveals ...

Archive.org, one of the only entities to attempt to preserve the entire history of the World Wide Web and much of the broader Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data on roughly ...

WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org, the open source web-hosting software, banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources. In a post on WordPress.org ...

HTTPS, or Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure, is a variation on the basic protocol used to serve Web pages over the Internet. HTTPS verifies the security certification of the page you're visiting to ...

404, 301, 500… No, these aren’t just random digits. They indicate how your website performs and how search engines like Google view and rank your website. Below, I’ll break down the most common HTTP ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

It takes more than good tools. It takes a complete change of attitude. by Stefan Thomke In December 2017, just before the busy holiday travel season, Booking.com’s director of design proposed a ...

An international study of around 99 million people confirmed known serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. It also identified a possible relationship between the first dose of the Moderna ...