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19/09/2018
Captain Marvel is coming!
Marvel studios have released the first full trailer for "Captain Marvel", and it's sent the internet into a frenzy. Starring Brie Larson in the titular role, it will be the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first female led super film. There was already a lot of excited buzz about the project, and now the trailer has rocketed that buzz sky (or space)
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19/09/2018
Web series to become TV series
The cult (and alternative and divisive and polarizing and horrifying but also strangely compelling) web-series "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" is coming to television! The web-series, which resembles classic childrens programming such as "Sesame Street" but formulaically always descends into a spiral of existential madness, is based around the
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3/09/2018
China bans ABC's website
The Chinese goverment has confirmed that it has officially banned the ABC's website from being accessed in their country. Though there was initially no explanation for the censorship, a statement was eventually given to the ABC by an official from the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commision, citing that they have the right to take
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13/06/2018
Australia builds cable to Solomon Islands
The Liberal Government have cut China's lunch, offering the Solomon Islands a high-speed underwater communications cable that will reportedly be cheaper and faster than a competing offer made from Chinese company Huawei. The cable, set to be 4,000 kilometres in length and millions of dollars in cost, will run from the Australian mainland (possibly
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12/06/2018
Will net neutrality repeal reach Australia?
Net neutrality - the lingering bastion that was ensuring that internet service providers treat all data the same and not discriminate or charge differnetly by user, websire or application - has successfuly been burnt to the bloody ground by the Federal Communications Commisions (or FCC) of the United States. The rules that stipulated that internet
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8/06/2018
Cut cable leaves thousands without internet
Thousands of Sydney-siders were left without internet after a cable was cut. After a construction crew accidentally cut an integral Telstra cable whilst working in the north shore suburb of Chatswood, internet users all across New South Wales found themselves in the midst of a major internet outage.  According to a spokesman for Telstra, the fibre
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8/06/2018
This Reddit AI is a psychopath
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (or "MIT" for those who know it by its street name) have straight up said "f*** it, let's build a psycho robot", and then they went and did just that, God bless 'em. The AI - dubbed "Norman" after the eponymous psycho from "Psycho" - was shown a multitude graphic content from the deepest
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7/06/2018
NBN Clarifies Its Statement on Gamers
Attending a recent parliamentary hearing in Sydney, NBN Co Chief Bill Morrow stated that "while people are gaming it is a high bandwidth requirement that is a steady streaming process". His comments, as reported by The Guardian and the ABC, categorized the gamer as a type of "extreme user". When later asked if he thought gamers were in responsible
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25/05/2018
World prepares for new data protection rules
Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short) has got many curious about how it will effect the "world wide" parts of the web. The throughly revised regulations, that are effective as of May 25th (or today at the time of writing this), are all about protecting your data and your privacy. For the average consumer, it's a good
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17/05/2018
Robert Downey Jnr set to host Youtube AI doco
Youtube Red, Youtube's online streaming subscription service, has announced a new docuseries about Artificial Intelligence - and what better host than Tony Stark himself? Probably Ultron, IMHO. Anyway, considering neither of those dudes are real, Youtube have found a host in beloved actor and noted Tony Stark cosplayer Robert Downey Jnr. The
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17/05/2018
Laurel or Yanny??
Toilet Paper Orientation. The Best Batman. #TheDress. There are just some things that will tear a civilization apart like so much toilet paper off a correctly placed toilet roll (which is over btw). The latest is an audio clip of a computer-generated voice saying a word that some hear as "Yanny" and others hear as "Laurel." Originating as a teen
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16/05/2018
Google Duplex Passes the Turing Test
If you're interested in internet news and artificial intelligence, you may like to know that like the MIT algorithm and the Facebook CEO Bot before it, Google Duplex has successfully passed the Turing Test. You may have seen the video going around of the new Google Duplex software calling up a salon to book an appointment for a haircut, fooling the
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