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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Reddit Just Deleted Every Message You Sent Before 2023
Veteran Reddit users have another thing coming after Reddit vowed to remove its famous Gold awarding system. The social media platform—which has been headed straight into the ground these past few weeks—has now nuked every direct message you’ve sent or received before 2023. Mashable broke the story, citing Reddit users’ own posts and comments losing…
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An Original, Factory-Sealed, 4GB iPhone Just Sold at Auction for Over $US190,000
Many of us can remember the excitement of tearing off the plastic shrink wrap and opening our first iPhones, but imagine the excitement you’d be feeling 16 years later if you’d kept it sealed in its original box because an unopened iPhone just sold at auction for a staggering $US190,372.80. It’s hard to say exactly…
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Science Goes Cottagecore: Wool and Mushrooms Are Now Building Materials
Building materials are costly and can harm the environment. But these scientists have created a new material made of wool and fungus.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Its Path to Finding Organics on Mars
Earlier this week, scientists announced that Perseverance found organic molecules on Mars. Not life itself—hardly—but another endorsement of the ancient habitat on Mars as having been suitable for life. Perseverance has been searching for biosignatures—that is, signs of ancient life on Mars—since it landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. But the search for…