Learning to sort the whites from your colorful laundry is a rite of passage, even with modern tools and machines. Laundry may be a rather boring chore, but it's an essential life skill, and having ...

Joseph J. Collins, a pivotal figure in the evolution of television’s transition from broadcast dominance to cable and ultimately the internet, died Thursday at his home in Rhode Island. He was 81.

A tidy PC interior is not only nice to look at, but also makes sense. Good cable management ensures better air circulation, facilitates maintenance, and can even extend the service life of individual ...

There’s a reason we’re called WIRED. If there’s one thing most of today's gadgets have in common, it’s that they typically need to be plugged in from time to time. But all those cables, cords, and ...

About the time Dick Cable retired from being an anchor for KXTV in June 1998, his retirement party was held in a place that might have seemed unusual: Safetyville, where generations of Sacramento-area ...

A small granite marker behind the Astoria Column commemorates an invention that traces its roots to the Oregon coast: cable television. In 1948 – four years before Portland got its first TV station ...

TL;DR: Sharks are often blamed for damaging undersea cables, but the real forces reshaping the Atlantic's fiber backbone are engineers, grapnels, and diesel-electric ships retrieving decades-old glass ...

Sharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or ...

Streaming was supposed to kill cable. It just may prove to be legacy TV’s lifeline. For much of the past decade, cord-cutting ravaged the industry, with tens of millions of households abandoning ...

Every time my husband thinks I can't possibly come home with another organizing tool or storage solution, there I am walking through the door with something that's going to make our lives easier. At ...