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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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From an Uber Eats delivery robot crashing a crime scene to huge fines for Meta and Google in South Korea, here are five things headlining tech news today in Australia.
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Social Media Companies Now Have to Tell California What Their Hate Speech and Disinfo Policies Are
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced late Tuesday that he’d signed a “first-of-its-kind” bill into law designed to “protect Californians from hate and disinformation spread online.”
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Who Wished Queen Elizabeth II ‘Excruciating’ Death Says Her Job Is Safe
Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya, who unleashed a social media storm last week when she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death in a tweet, is back on Twitter. In an update, she thanked the people who supported her, and assured them that nothing was going to happen to her job at…
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Biden Announces $AU1,330 Million to Boost Electric Vehicle Charging
President Joe Biden announced in a speech today that $US900 ($AU1,332) million of federal funding will go toward increasing the number of electric vehicle chargers nationwide. This funding is the first chunk of money allocated to building EV chargers from a $US1 ($AU1.48) trillion bipartisan infrastructure law signed last year.