Most people think of the internet as apps, websites, and social media, but nearly all global data actually travels through physical infrastructure such as undersea fiber optic cables, terrestrial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known ...

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For centuries the Arctic was a frozen barrier that ships could not cross, forcing global trade between Asia and Europe through southern routes like the Suez Canal. That assumption is beginning to ...

Fresh off receiving a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Trump, sparing him from two life sentences, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was spotted in a new photograph smiling broadly and ...

When Silk Road went under more than a month ago, one if the biggest stories that came out was that the site's operator, Ross Ulbricht—aka Dread Pirate Roberts—had hired a hitman to kill one of the ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...

FRAMINGHAM — Despite “belonging from the same soil” in India, Monali Lakhani and Devanand Chinta didn't meet until they were each working for a restaurant management group in Northborough. Earlier ...