All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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150,000-Year-Old Human Tooth Is Rare Evidence of the Extinct Denisovans
Paleontologists in Laos have uncovered an ancient molar that likely belonged to a young Denisovan girl. The discovery is a big deal, as the Laotian cave in which the molar was found is now one of only three spots known to host these enigmatic humans.
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Has Lucasfilm Learned Anything?
The most distressing thing about Vanity Fair’s massive look into the future of Star Wars isn’t the lack of any new details about the specific future of Star Wars. It’s that, despite claims to the contrary, I don’t know that Lucasfilm has learned anything from the lessons of the sequel trilogy and its TV series,…
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Elon Tells Twitter: Prove That Bots Aren’t a Big Deal, or I Sink This Buyout
Elon Musk, current Tesla CEO and perhaps not Twitter’s future owner, has a message for the social media network he once coveted but now comments on with a poop emoji: Prove to me that spam bots and fake accounts are less than 5% of Twitter users or watch me blow this whole deal up.
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That Midnight Kebab Is Now Just a ‘Hey Google’ Away Thanks to Uber Eats Upgrade
Uber Eats will soon work with Google Assistant, which means late night food deliveries are about to get a whole lot easier.