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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Scientists in Japan Have Developed an Experimental Tooth-Growing Drug
A team of scientists in Japan is hoping to make their tooth-growing drug a reality in the near future. Following recent promising research in animals, the group is planning to conduct small-scale human trials of the drug starting next year. Should everything go well, the treatment could reach the public by the end of the…
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USPS Is Holding On to 452 Cremated Human Remains
You don’t want your final resting place to be a dead letter office, but unfortunately that’s where 452 people have found themselves, spending eternity as undeliverable mail with the U.S. Postal Service.
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Elon Musk Pledges to Enhance ‘Core Socialist Values’ In China
Elon Musk, cisgender slur demarcator and world’s richest man, runs a little car company called Tesla. Tesla sells cars in China, where the EV market has seen months of constant price cuts as part of an ongoing war for sales numbers. But now, thanks to a letter from China’s government, that price war may be…
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A U.S. State Has Outlawed Sexual Deepfakes of Children
Louisiana has become one of the first states to pass legislation explicitly criminalizing the creation of deepfaked child sexual abuse material. The legislation, called SB175, makes it a crime to knowingly create or possess an AI-generated image or video depicting a person under the age of 18 engaged in a sexual act. People convicted of…