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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Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird. Nothing Chats launched fairly recently (and didn’t even…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From the return of Sam Altman to Australia’s roving team of cyber experts, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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Teenage Engineering Just Released a $US250 Toy Car
Teenage Engineering, the Swedish electronics firm, is known for its beautiful but pricey products—the bulk of which amount to functionalist art. Need a $US1600 aluminium desk? TE’s got you covered. How about a $US2,000 set of singing, wooden dolls? Again, the company is there to serve. We also wouldn’t have the Nothing Phone—arguably, one of…
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George R.R. Martin Has No (New) Pages
Well, maybe he does—after all, part of writing a novel as long-in-the-works and expansive as The Winds of Winter, the latest novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series that gave us Game of Thrones, is going back and revising things. But if you were hoping author George R.R. Martin’s latest update on the…