Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

When communicating over Wi-Fi, your iPhone needs to verify itself on the network before it can receive data—intended for it—on that network. It does this using a MAC address or Wi-Fi address. While ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

A WAN address is the IP address that your router uses to connect to the Internet. It is different from IP addresses of computers and devices on a local network, because the WAN IP is essentially ...

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 ...

Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...