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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Musk Now Claims Twitter Breached Buyout Deal Over Bots
Billionaire poop-thrower Elon Musk is getting ever closer to pushing the big red button on his Twitter buyout deal thanks to his incessant demands that Twitter prove its users are real, fleshy human beings rather than cold-hearted spam bots.
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Australia Finally Has a Dedicated Cybersecurity Minister
Clare O’Neil has been appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security. It’s the first time cybersecurity has had its own portfolio in the Australian cabinet.
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Let’s Build LEGO’s Transforming Optimus Prime
What is essentially kryptonite to the budget of a nerd who grew up in the ‘80s, LEGO and Hasbro’s first collaboration is finally available, but is the brick-built version of Optimus Prime worthy of a spot in your collection?
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Can Software Be an ‘Inventor’?
It was the veritable search for a needle in a haystack. With drug-resistant bacteria on the rise, researchers at MIT were sifting through a database of more than 100 million molecules to identify a few that might have antibacterial properties. Fortunately, the search proved successful. But it wasn’t a human who found the promising molecules.…