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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Hundreds of Students Sign Letter to Support Professor Who Wished Queen Elizabeth II ‘Excruciating Pain’
Hundreds of students have signed an open letter condemning Carnegie Mellon University for publicly throwing professor Uju Anya under the bus after tweeting that she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death for serving as the head of a “thieving raping genocidal empire.” Coincidentally, Carnegie Mellon actions came after Amazon founder Jeff…
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Here Are 10 Tinder Competitors You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
It’s not a stretch to say that Tinder revolutionised what it means to date online. While the shift to online dating was already in full swing, it was relegated to web browsers, with websites like Plenty of Fish and eHarmony taking the reign as the one-stop-shop for people looking for love amongst the digital landscape.…
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Nona the Ninth Is Too Much and Too Little
Trying to describe the Locked Tomb series is an exercise in asking yourself where to start. Tamsyn Muir’s breakout books are brutally absurd and lyrical, strangely evading these kinds of explanations, but I’ll give it a go.
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Twitter Rejects Elon Musk’s Third Try to Invalidate His Acquisition of the Company
As the maxim goes: If at first you don’t succeed, try again. And again. Elon Musk made a third attempt to back out of his messy, ongoing $US44 ($61) billion acquisition of Twitter on Friday. The company turned around and denied the claim on Monday.