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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Disney’s New Pinocchio Trailer Is, to Quote Jiminy Cricket, Kind of on the Nose
Disney’s quest to create live-action remakes for all its animated classics takes another step forward with Pinocchio, which hits Disney+ on September 8 as part of the streamer’s anniversary celebration. Today’s new trailer — equal parts fantastical and sentimental, as expected — gives us our best look yet at the Robert Zemeckis tale, starring the…
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Star Wars’ Diego Luna on How Andor Helped Him Realise a Childhood Dream
When I was growing up, the cultural impact of Star Wars as a global phenomenon is something that felt like it was just a regular part of life. The first movies I was exposed to were the original Star Wars films — my father, who immigrated from Mexico City with my mother in 1989, used…
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SpaceX Says Falcon 9 Can Launch Future Starlink Satellites — a Sign Starship Is Far From Ready
The next generation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites will be heavier and larger than their predecessors, which is why SpaceX has said they’ll need to launch aboard the upcoming Starship rocket. But the company now wants to use its existing Falcon 9 for Starlink 2.0 launches — a decision that will come at a cost.
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Would You Eat a Windmill? These Scientists Hope So.
Despite being an excellent source of renewable energy, wind turbines, like most manufactured products, eventually need to be disposed of, for one reason or another. That poses an obviously large problem given their size, but researchers at Michigan State University are working on a novel solution: a newly developed material for making turbines that can…