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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Thumbs-Up Emoji Is an Official Contract Agreement, Canadian Court Rules
You’d better think twice before responding to an ask from your boss with a 👍. A Saskatchewan court has ruled in favour of making the emoji an official agreement to enter a contract.
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Webb Space Telescope Discovers Farthest Active Supermassive Black Hole Known
Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was “seen” as it was around 570 million years after the Big Bang. The universe is about 13.77 billion years old, meaning the newly discovered black hole popped up when the universe was…
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The 2023 Hugo Award Nominees Are Here
It’s that time of year again: Chengdu WorldCon has released the full list of nominees for this year’s Hugos, the premiere science fiction and fantasy awards ceremony highlighting the best in books, film, TV, and criticism in genre material. This year marks the 81st WorldCon, the traditional home of the Hugo Awards winners ceremony, taking…
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Elon Musk Says Teslas Will Be Self-Driving Teslas by the End of the Year, Again
I will get a Tesla tattoo if Musk gets actual self-driving cars on the road by December 31, 2023.