Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on thealt.hypertext newsgroupand gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it. The World Wide Web has its foundation in work that Berners-Lee did in the 1980s at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research....

Age is a blessing — but it’s also fucking terrifying. Especially when I realized it had been20 years since the iPod was released. Once I stopped hyperventilating, I understood this was okay. Why? Because the iPod changed my life. And, to this very day, I believe it’s the greatest gadget ever created. It didn’t begin that way though. Before I got my hands on an iPod, I thought MP3 players were stupid....

There’s been a few big developments on the BBC iPlayer front this year. Back in February, dedicated apps for iPad and Android wereannounced, whilst just last week, a new global iPlayer app for iPads was launched in eleven countries. And as wereportedearlier, a new TV-friendly version of iPlayer is launched today for the Sony PlayStation 3, with further platforms planned in the months ahead. The Next Web caught up with Daniel Danker, BBC’s General Manager, Programmes & On Demand, and it seems all this activity of late is part of a much grander plan, which is to take the iPlayerbeyond the tech-savvy,beyond catch-upandbeyond the PC....

Apple’sannual Design Awards for third-party developers are to take place alongside this year’s WWDC, but this year represents a significant change in the entrance requirements. From the 2011 Apple Design Awards onwards, entrants must have their apps in the App Store to be considered. The Mac App Store launched in January this year, and Apple is already taking steps to ensure that the new store is the main source of OS X app sales, giving it a cut of sales revenue that it previously didn’t have access to....

If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” The Standard Modelexplains the fundamental physics of how the universe works. It has endured over 50 trips around the Sun despite experimental physicists constantly probing for cracks in the model’s foundations. With few exceptions, it has stood up to this scrutiny, passing experimental test after experimental test with flying colors....