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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Vanity License Plate Sold at Auction for World Record $15 Million in Dubai
A wealthy anonymous bidder paid 55 million Emirati dirhams, roughly $21 million, for a licence plate at an auction in Dubai. The world record amount was spent for Dubai’s “P 7” licence plate, breaking the previous record by over $US750,000 (a little over $1 million in Aussie terms). Absurdly low licence plate numbers have long…
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Mini Is Getting Its Own Version of Microsoft’s Clippy, A Bulldog Named Spike
Mini’s bulldog mascot (that we all clearly know about) is now a digital virtual assistant.
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The Walking Dead: Dead City Will Quadruple-Down on Maggie-Negan Drama
We’re only a few months out from the first of the post-Walking Dead Walking Dead spin-offs: Dead City, in which Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) search the zombie-filled ruins of New York City looking for Maggie’s kidnapped son Hershel. Given how low The Walking Dead finale’s ratings were, your desire to watch Dead…
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Bid Star Trek: Picard a Supersized Farewell by Watching the Finale in Imax
The end of Star Trek: Picard is nearly here, and Paramount+ is giving the series a big send-off. Oversized, even: the remaining two episodes of the show’s third and final season (this week’s “Vox” and the series finale) will be shared in a special Imax live presentation. Even better, fans will get to see the…