Sydney Page is a staff reporter who writes for The Washington Post’s The Optimist section, a collection of stories about humanity. She also authors The Optimist weekly newsletter. She has been a ...

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, ...

I recently moved to a much more rural area, so getting Starlink set up was one of my top priorities. My area is an internet dead zone where you might get a bit of 4G on a nearby hill, but that’s about ...