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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Here Are the Tech-Related 2022 Federal Budget Announcements, Explained
The federal government last night splashed about a lot of cash as part of the 2022 Budget. As expected, there was funding around COVID-19, for health measures but also economic bounce-back. There was also a lot of, well, there wasn’t much, really. While a federal election is yet to be officially called, it’s almost certainly…
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Meet Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Uhura, aka Newhura
If you’re even the slightest of Star Trek fans, you have to be at least somewhat excited about the arrival of Strange New Worlds, the upcoming series following the adventures of the USS Enterprise before one James T. Kirk sat in its captain’s chair. The chance to see classic Original Series characters like Christopher Pike,…
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Pluto’s Huge Ice Volcanoes Are Stranger Than We Realised
Images gathered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 hinted at the presence of ice volcanoes on Pluto. A new analysis of the data suggests they’re actually a prominent feature of the dwarf planet, with the largest reaching over 6 km high.
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Russia May Commit ‘Largest Theft of Aircraft in History’ by Keeping Over 400 Leased Planes
Officials in Russia had until Monday to return aircraft leased to the country by companies in EU nations, but many have already given up their planes as lost causes. Especially after President Putin signed a law allowing airlines to register leased aircraft as Russian in defiance of international law.