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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The Euclid Telescope’s First Images Have Arrived and They’re Stunning
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission took over 11 years to get off the ground (and Earth), but now the nascent space observatory has produced its first test images of the cosmos. Euclid launched on July 1 from Florida and is set to investigate the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which together make…
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Chinese Zoo Insists Its Malayan Sun Bear Is Not Just a Human in a Costume
A Chinese zoo is denying that its Malayan sun bears are humans dressed in costumes after visitors claimed the bears’ behaviours strongly resembled that of a person. A video of the bear, named Angela, was posted on social media and went viral, showing the bear standing on her hind legs and facing onlookers before sitting…
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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.
The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now it seems the battle has come to a…
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AI.com Now Belongs to Elon Musk
The URL previously belonged to OpenAI, but, somehow, it’s now a landing page for Musk’s AI venture.