The people who run the internet are expected to announce (update: they announced it) that they’ve allocated the last set of internet addresses today. In a matter of months, the old addresses based on ...

The US and Canada are down to their last 16.7 million Net addresses with today's IPv4 Internet technology. Scarcity is pushing Internet service providers to the next-gen IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked ...

An Internet Protocol address, also known as an IP address, is a unique number that identifies a device connected to the ...

Engineers who created 4.3 billion Internet Protocol addresses back in 1981 probably thought that by the time we ran through all those, we’d be puttering around in flying cars. Flying cars are going to ...