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Faster Home Broadband Should Be Enshrined in Law

Today on WIRED     December 17, 2021 Faster Home Broadband Should Be Enshrined in Law By Chris Stokel-Walker The way we use the internet has changed—and fast. Before the pandemic, telecoms and internet service provider BT was handling  five terabits of data every second  from its UK customers during the day. When the pandemic hit and the world locked down, data volumes doubled. In Germany, DE-CIX Frankfurt, a major connection point for the global internet, broke multiple bandwidth records with 2020 peak volumes beating 2019 rates  by 28 percent .   One week, the world's offices were buzzing. The next, they were silent. In the new normal, office workers spend their days leaping from one video conferen...

The Ultimate WIRED Christmas Gift Guide For 2021

Today on WIRED     December 16, 2021 The Ultimate WIRED Christmas Gift Guide For 2021 By Adam Speight and Emily Peck So everyone told you to shop early but here we are anyway. Now it's time for Late Christmas Energy. You can still be thoughtful, just breathe and take a scroll through the WIRED team's gift edits. Because there's nothing more expensive than bad taste so, just for you, we've picked out the our finest gift ideas from under £50 to a handful of downright extravagant money-no-object selections. We'll continue to add to this list between now and the day itself.    And if it's  tech toy gifts  - or even  Made in the UK gifts  that should ship quickly - you know you're looking for, c...