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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Slumberland’s New Trailer Puts Jason Momoa in Dreams (and Horns)
Netflix’s latest trailer for its take on Little Nemo in Slumberland is giving us exactly what we want — which is mostly an excuse to see Jason Momoa ham it up as a dream Satyr. But for those of you less interested in that, it’s also doing a pretty good job at showing us the…
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Space Force Isn’t Quite What You Think It Is
On November 15, 2021, a Russian missile smashed into the defunct satellite Kosmos-1408, creating a cloud of debris that threatened astronauts aboard the International Space Station. That same day, a tweet from the 18th Space Defence Squadron — an arm of the U.S. Space Force — acknowledged the incident, saying it was tracking some 1,500…
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Celsius Execs Cashed Out $AU62 Million in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers
Three executives at crypto trading platform Celsius cashed out at least $US40 ($62) million in cryptocurrency shortly before the company halted withdrawals for all users earlier this year, according to a financial disclosure form filed in New York bankruptcy court late Wednesday.
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What’s Driving the Rise of New Zealand’s ‘Tor Market’ for Illegal Drugs?
New Zealand is generally proud of being a world leader, but there’s one claim that might not be universally admired: being home to the longest running English-language market for illegal drugs on the so-called “darknet”. Known as “Tor Market”, it has been active since March 2018 and has outlived several larger and better known operations…