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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9 Out of 10 Classic Video Games Are Commercially Unavailable, Study Finds
From fixing up old defunct Sega Saturns to dropping hundreds of dollars on eBay for rare titles like GameCube’s Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, retro game enthusiasts already know the struggle of enjoying early games. For video game historians, the situation is even worse. There are several nationally recognized and lauded services for watching thousands of…
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Underground Heat Is Sinking Our Cities, Study Says
Heat is a silent hazard sitting beneath cities, threatening to shift infrastructure. A study published this week in Communications Engineering, outlines how heat could be changing major cities, but urban areas throughout the U.S. may not be prepared. Study researchers set up more than 150 sensors above and below ground throughout the Chicago Loop. They…
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Making Life Harder for Astronomers
There’s a new problem and it has a name: Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Stable Doodle Turns Your Dumbest Scribbles Into Off-Putting AI Art
From the makers of Stable Diffusion, Stable Doodle is the company’s latest free text-to-image and image-to-image combo. It takes your poor attempts at mouse-drawn images and converts them into a more cohesive AI illustration. The service is free, and users on the Stability AI-owned Clipdrop platform can use their mouse (or a drawing tablet) to…