Internet

North Kansas City built a fiber network almost two decades ago that it now uses to provide its residents with gigabit internet. Here’s how it happened and why other cities in the country are, or aren’t, trying to do the same.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.

Kansas City residents can qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program if they make less than twice the federal poverty level (about $60,000 for a family of four), if someone in the household is a Pell Grant recipient or receives assistance like SNAP or Medicaid.

SB Mowing has more than 20 million followers on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. His time-lapse videos of lawn transformations have garnered more than 2 billion views.

States, local governments and internet providers have until Friday, Jan. 13 to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Map. The map shows where service is and isn’t across the country.

After buying Twitter for $44 billion, Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to make headlines for laying off half the staff, reinstating Trump's account and inspiring users' farewell to the social media app.

In Max Fisher's new book "The Chaos Machine," he examines how social media giants like Facebook and Twitter contributed to political divisions in modern America.

The arrival of Google Fiber in Kansas City highlighted the challenges the country faces when it comes to ensuring that low income household have access to the promise of world-class internet speeds.

Installing fiber-optic internet in sparsely populated places like western Kansas is extremely expensive, even with government subsidies. But some smaller, local broadband providers are finding ways to make it work where the big national companies have not.

Wikipedia, which seemingly has an entry for everything, lacks information on historic Black Kansas Citians. The Kansas City Library is mobilizing a group of volunteers to fix that.

The editor of The New York Times Book Review on the ideas, technology and life experiences eliminated by the internet age.

The Kansas City Public Library claims that Miranda Pratt is "the first Wikipedian-In-Residence appointed by a public library in the United States."