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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AI Chatbots Are Better at Math When They Pretend to Be Star Trek Characters
For chatbots, math is the final frontier. AI language models generate responses using statistics, spitting out an answer that’s mostly likely to be satisfying. That works great when the goal is a passable sentence, but it means chatbots struggle with questions like math where there’s exactly one right answer. A growing body of evidence suggests…
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Cerveza Wars: Chile Embedded Beer Ads in its First Airing of Star Wars
A 2003 broadcast of Star Wars in Chile involved some creative beer advertising. Even those in a galaxy far, far away want a cold one.
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Nvidia’s prediction on artificial general intelligence to an Apple event-less March, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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The Long History of How the Rebels Originally Stole the Death Star Plans
In current Star Wars canon, the plot to steal the Death Star’s technical plans is incredibly straight forward: it’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the tale of Galen Erso’s sacrifice and the ragtag team that swooped down to Scarif and gave their lives to ensure that data fell into Rebel hands. But in the…