We need more urban innovation projects like the Google City This is why

Only a sustained effort of governments, augmented by public-private collaboration and investment, can usher in a new era of digital infrastructure.

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is a fleet of high-altitude balloons. Google’s new “fleet of high-altitude balloons” is bringing internet service to one of the remotest regions of Africa, said Abdi Latif Dahir in The New York Times. Acting as “floating cell towers,” the balloons began providing 4G LTE network connec

People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. Weve been putting off answering that, because we kept changing it! But now things have started to settle down. Lets go through the entire Tailscale system from bottom to top, the same way we built it (but skipping some zigzags we took along the way). With this information, you should be able to build your own Tailscale replacement except

This is a re-publishing of our monthly newsletter sent to subscribers earlier this month. Sign up to receive future email newsletters.A month ago, we announced Tailscale’s general availability. Since then, we’ve been hard at work improving Tailscale. Today, were writing with some updates. We recently released a new minor version of our client apps. This new version fixes various connectivity issu

Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the good old days of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote work results in a corresponding burden of security. This reduces productivity. Systems and approaches dont scale without s

We’ve heard a lot about cloud computing, edge computing and various other kinds of computing, but confidential computing is less well known. As an emerging encryption model, it promises to offer greater protection to data as it’s being used, supplementing at-rest and in-transit encryption. Protecting against attacks like memory dumps and malicious root user compromise, the development of confident

Let’s be frank, all of us in the IT community live in a little bubble. We can listen to a colleague talk about how he’s set up his own VPN server, and even if most of us couldn’t do it ourselves (I thought a subnet mask was something found in shops with frosted windows), we get the gist of what he’s banging on about. We all speak geek. Out in the real world, things are different. Especially if you

Cloud computing has been a dominant force within business IT for many years and has only grown stronger in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that the majority of employees are currently working outside of the traditional office. This has seen us become even more dependent on cloud-based services which now hold more of our data, be it personal or work, than ever before. As such, it is

Cloud computing has been a dominant force within business IT for many years and has only grown stronger in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that the majority of employees are currently working outside of the traditional office. This has seen us become even more dependent on cloud-based services which now hold more of our data, be it personal or work, than ever before. As such, it is