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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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From driverless car trials in Mt Isa to ACCC cracking down on greenwashing, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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X-Ray Imaging Reveals Hidden ‘First Drafts’ in Ancient Egyptian Paintings
A team of researchers recently studied paintings in the Theban Necropolis near the Nile River using X-ray fluorescence imaging and discovered never-before-seen details of the painting process. Under X-ray light, the 3,100-year-old paintings glowed with their artists’ first drafts, hidden to the naked eye for millennia. The team’s research was published this week in PLoS…
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NASA Stashes Twin Probes After Cancelling $US50 Million Asteroid Mission
NASA is going to store a pair of spacecraft at a facility, awaiting a second chance to go to space should the agency find a new purpose for them. Following months of uncertainty, NASA announced that it was officially calling off the Janus mission to study two separate binary asteroid systems. Janus’ twin spacecraft are…
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People Are Back to Puking on Cruise Ships as Norovirus Outbreaks Reach 10-Year High
America is back and puking on cruise ships again! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of cruise ship outbreaks reported this year is already higher than it has been in about a decade. So far, all of these outbreaks have been caused by norovirus, a very unpleasant, though usually self-limiting,…