The internet relies on a system of addresses that treats every computer, tablet and smartphone as a distinct device, allowing all of them to communicate with each other. Because many kinds of devices ...

Knowing your computer’s IP address is like knowing its digital location. It can help you connect to it in certain applications, or find out what it’s connecting to. Whether your interests in your ...

If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

If you have wondered how the requests sent over the internet arrive at the right destination every time, the answer is IP addresses. An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a string of digits and periods ...

As we run out of IPv4 address space, is it time to create an exchange for trading unused address blocks? Ars contributors Iljitsch van Beijnum and Timothy Lee tackle the issue. In this article, ...

The day of reckoning still looms -- it's just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers In February 2011, the global Internet ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...