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.

  • Elon Musk’s Brother Shutters Most Locations of Farming Startup

    Elon Musk’s Brother Shutters Most Locations of Farming Startup

    Nikki Main

    Square Roots, an indoor “smart farm” co-owned by Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal, has closed down four of its five locations and laid off most of its employees on Tuesday. The farming startup opened in 2016, producing herbs, greens, and salad mixes using artificial light in an indoor environment before distributing the produce to local and…

  • Reddit Takes Over Popular Subreddit Amid Moderator Protest

    Reddit Takes Over Popular Subreddit Amid Moderator Protest

    Nikki Main

    Reddit followed through on its threat to take over subreddits if they did not reopen to the public with its takeover of r/malefashionadvice on Thursday. Prior to closing down in protest of Reddit’s API price changes. The subreddit was one of the biggest on the platform that was still engaged in the protest, boasting more…

  • Hubble Spots ‘Boulder Cloud’ From NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission

    Hubble Spots ‘Boulder Cloud’ From NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission

    George Dvorsky

    Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected nearly 40 boulders near Dimorphos—the target of NASA’s wildly successful DART experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid. This isn’t exactly positive news, since it suggests that hitting a bona fide hazardous asteroid might create a cluster of possibly dangerous boulders advancing towards Earth. I’m inclined to frame…