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Posts from friends and family will feature more on Facebook News Feed as Mark Zuckerberg flags changes he says are designed to make the social media platform more "meaningful".
Topics: social-media, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, science-and-technology, mental-health, internet-culture, information-and-communication, united-states
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Upcoming innovations suggest that 2018 might be the year when the promise of augmented reality begins to be realised.
Topics: internet-technology, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, united-states, australia
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Chinese users of Apple's iCloud service are worried about new terms and conditions released by the tech giant, which is partnering up with a government-owned company to operate cloud servers in the country.
Topics: internet-technology, computers-and-technology, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, censorship, china
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US billionaire Warren Buffett is the latest high-profile investor to dismiss cryptocurrencies, while announcing his succession plan at Berkshire Hathaway.
Topics: currency, company-news, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, business-economics-and-finance, united-states
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Don't fall for the "Roach Motel" or the "Privacy Zuckering". Here's how to spot the design choices that nudge us into unnecessary purchases.
Topics: science-and-technology, information-and-communication, internet-culture, internet-technology, computers-and-technology
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Apple shareholders want the tech giant to build in some safeguards to protect its youngest consumers, on the basis that it's the right thing to do — and could improve the company's bottom line.
Topics: internet-technology, telecommunications, information-and-communication, television, family-and-children, child-health-and-behaviour, arts-and-entertainment, digital-multimedia, australia, united-states
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Cryptocurrency-mania has spread to Kodak, which hopes to recapture its "Kodak moment" by rolling out its own currency KODAKCoin.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, currency, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, united-states
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Can you lay claim to have created white noise, or the sound of waves breaking? It's a question at the heart of a copyright claim involving a rather perplexed Australian musician.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, copyright, information-and-communication, internet-culture, internet-technology, human-interest, adelaide-5000, australia
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Wildlife campaigners say young Indian men are using Facebook and WhatsApp to spread news of leopard sightings and then take on the endangered predators in acts of bravado. Community leaders say it's self defence.
Topics: animals, human-interest, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, science-and-technology, india
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In India, animal activists say deadly confrontations between humans and endangered leopards is being escalated by mobile technology.
Topics: internet-culture, animals, human-interest, internet-technology, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, social-media, india
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Graphic design app Canva says it is now worth over US$1 billion, making it part of the "unicorn" club — which research shows is, generally, overvalued.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, internet-technology, art-and-design
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Cash Converters requires people receiving Centrelink benefits to provide their myGov access details as part of its online approval process — a move which poses a security risk, according to some experts.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, australia, wa
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A new kind of wi-fi network set up in Launceston is attracting software and app developers to test "Internet of Things" products, including a program that will help families intervene more quickly if a person with dementia becomes lost.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, information-technology, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, diseases-and-disorders, health, environmental-technology, launceston-7250, tas
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The tech giant says all of its Mac and iOS devices are affected by exploits that could allow hackers to steal data, and vows to release a fix within days.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, mobile-phones, information-and-communication, australia, united-states
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You've switched off the Christmas lights, yelled more than once at the kids to stop opening the fridge, and kept the air-con to a toasty 24. Good on you. Now for the fun part of your energy cost-cutting regime — playing app-based video games.
Topics: internet-technology, games-on-the-web, games---other, games-industry, games, electricity-energy-and-utilities, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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That Intel processor that makes your computer or mobile phone work could be vulnerable to two exploits — dubbed Meltdown and Spectre — allowing hackers to steal data.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology
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Virtual reality amusement rides have come a long way, employing mindboggling technology and highly immersive themes — but VR thrill-seekers yearn for more. So with the porn industry leading the way, where will these crazy kids take us next?
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, games, kids-games-and-links, australia, united-states
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The internet isn't magic, it's mechanical — and summer puts it under strain. Meet some of the people who work keeping it cool.
Topics: science-and-technology, mobile-phones, internet-technology, information-and-communication, computers-and-technology, australia, wa
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More women and couples are seeking the services of male escorts, data shows, necessitating a shift in traditional concepts of the sex industry and renewed efforts to adapt outdated legislation, writes Professor John Scott.
Topics: sexual-health, sexuality, prostitution, internet-culture, internet-technology, relationships, sydney-2000, australia
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Social media has become the latest travel planning tool and mobile devices the preferred on-the-road companions, but is "selfie gaze" tourism changing the way people perceive a destination and their behaviour once there?
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, internet-technology, internet-culture, social-media, australia
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From big weather events to celebrity deaths and the top tech — Google's top search trends of 2017 provide a broad snapshot of the people, places, fads and events that defined this year. Can you guess what intrigued (and stumped) us the most?
Topics: internet-culture, information-and-communication, human-interest, internet-technology, australia
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After four or five years in the doldrums, 2017 was by most definitions a good year for Australia's mining sector and its race to perfect its future in the digital mine.
Topics: mining-rural, university-and-further-education, science-and-technology, internet-technology, manufacturing, gold, mining-industry, coal, iron-ore, perth-6000, bowen-4805, karratha-6714, adelaide-5000, roxby-downs-5725, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, darwin-0800, stawell-3380, bendigo-3550, port-hedland-6721, kalgoorlie-6430, newcastle-2300
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In an era in which teens are showing less and less interest in Facebook's main platform, Messenger Kids is part of strategy to recapture their interest, and sidestep child protection laws in order to lay hands on their data.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, children, family-and-children, social-media, information-and-communication, australia
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Eight lawsuits filed in various US federal courts are claiming that Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance after the company opened up about the software change.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, information-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, science-and-technology, business-economics-and-finance, united-states
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Telecommunication companies will have to follow new rules when consumers are moving to the National Broadband Network.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, internet-culture, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-policy, regional-development, wollongong-2500, wagga-wagga-2650, mildura-3500, quambatook-3540, perth-6000, hobart-7000, darwin-0800, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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