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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Facebook Marketplace Is a Surreal Nightmare. These Are the Most Unhinged Listings
Facebook is a wasteland. Once the default gateway to the internet, today the site has a reputation as one of the least cool places on the web—at least for America’s taste-making young people. But, as the New York Times recently pointed out, there’s one corner of the platform that keeps the under-35 crowd coming back.…
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Neuralink Livestreams Paralysed Patient Playing Video Games With His Mind
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. Using Neuralink’s brain implant, which was inserted in January, the man now…
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After a Year in Exile, Parler Is Back on the Web. But Why?
Parler is back, baby. After a year-long hiatus from the web, the conservative social media site has returned to the internet, and this time its new owners are promising it won’t become the radical rightwing hellscape it was when it left. Parler has been offline since last April when it was bought by a media…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Telstra’s new network and tech exec to the U.S. taking on Apple, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.