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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Is Twitter Circles Broken?
The Twitter Circles feature is supposed to restrict access to outsiders, but users are reporting a glitch that’s allowed strangers access to private tweets.
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Clever Elephant Starts Peeling Her Bananas After Seeing Humans Do It
Elephant see, elephant do, it seems. In a new paper this week, researchers describe an Asian elephant that has learned how to peel a banana before eating it. The pachyderm, named Pang Pha, likely adopted the trick from watching humans but appears to only peel certain bananas.
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Studio Ghibli Teases Another Star Wars Collaboration
Last November, the nerd-o-sphere understandably freaked out when Studio Ghibli co-founder and all-time most beloved anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki released a single photo of the director with the above Grogu figurine. Star Wars fans (including us!) wondered if it meant the legendary anime studio would be making a movie set in a galaxy far, far…
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Fast X Detonates a Literally Explosive New Featurette
You probably shouldn’t hold your breath for a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Jughead seems to be writing Archie comics again on Riverdale. There’s some kind of Wacky Races-type cartoon coming that isn’t Wacky Races. Spoilers gonna spoil, baby.