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.

  • Amazon Funds $US120 Million Facility for Satellite Megaconstellation Project

    Amazon Funds $US120 Million Facility for Satellite Megaconstellation Project

    Nikki Main

    Amazon is building a facility in Florida for Project Kuiper, which aims to launch a projected 3,236 satellites into Earth’s low orbit. The company will build the $US120 million facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at Kennedy Space Center. The company announced on Friday that construction is underway, and it’s the latest…

  • Study Pushes Back Interactions Between Copper Age Europeans By a Millennium

    Study Pushes Back Interactions Between Copper Age Europeans By a Millennium

    Isaac Schultz

    Researchers poring over genomes of people who lived during the Copper Age have found older cultural contacts between ancient groups than previously known. The early contacts—about a millennium earlier than expected—may clarify when technology and cultural exchanges occurred between groups in the North Caucasus and the northwestern edge of the Black Sea. The team’s research…

  • The AI Boom Is Leading to Social and Environmental Exploitation

    The AI Boom Is Leading to Social and Environmental Exploitation

    Ascelin Gordon

    Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such as whether superintelligent AI will wipe us out, or whether AI will steal our jobs. But we’ve paid less attention the various other environmental and social impacts of our “consumption” of AI, which are arguably just as important. Everything we…