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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Google Says It’s Purging All the AI Trash Littering Its Search Results
Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search—a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online. The search engine giant posted in a blog post, this change involves algorithmic enhancements…
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NASA Really Made Its Own Tabletop RPG for You to Play
NASA still has plenty of cool projects afoot in the real world—did you hear about that asteroid-redirecting test? Or those space-friendly cameras?—but it’s also trying to stir imaginations in fantastically creative ways, too. Enter The Lost Universe, the agency’s first-ever tabletop roleplaying game. Its first what now? Yes, a TTRPG crafted at NASA’s Goddard Space…
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Optus Coughs Up $1.5M After Breaching Public Safety Rules
Optus has had to pay a $1.5 million penalty after it failed to upload customer data information to the Integrated Public Number Database.
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Watch Workers Build the Last Concorde Ever Made
It wasn’t too long ago that people were able to fly from London to New York in less than three and a half hours, while today it can take roughly double that amount of time. Those rapid flights were undertaken on Concorde, the supersonic passenger jet that was retired from service in 2003. Now, a…