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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Google’s Gemini AI Keeps Your Conversations for Up to 3 Years (Even If You Delete Them)
Have you got a secret you don’t want anyone to know? Don’t tell any of humanity’s fancy new AI-powered assistants because the companies behind these new tools are probably keeping your data a lot longer than you think. Google’s Gemini, the AI assistant formerly known as Bard, has received rave reviews, with many people hailing…
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Crowd Sets Waymo Self-Driving Car on Fire: ‘It Was So Torched… They Couldn’t Even Recognise the Vehicle’
A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car with no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained. According to Waymo, the self-driving car was navigating through Chinatown at about 9 p.m. when it was…
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Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims
Twitter is one of the internet’s favorite places for internet beef and Elon Musk is no stranger to it. A particular beef involving a college student tracking his private jet was the catalyst for the billionaire purchasing shares of Twitter, commencing his takeover of the social media platform, according to a new book about the…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Nvidia urging sovereign AI capabilities to Twitter (X) trying to reel in creators, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.