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The release of ARIA’s music wholesale music data confirmed the ongoing move from the physical to digital. Last year, digital sales finally topped physical sales of music in Australia and now represent…
To say that Bitcoin is the troubled child of the currency family is an understatement. In another precocious turn of events, Mt Gox, the exchange site most commonly associated with Bitcoin, took down its…
Many people are aware of the dangers of missed punctuation as is highlighted by the campaign “Use commas. Don’t be a psycho.”. This is graphically illustrated by the accompanying statement “I like cooking…
It seems Australia is going to be subjected to another politically inspired attempt to deal with internet piracy. Attorney-General George Brandis has motivated this move by claiming that the “success achieved…
The world of cryptocurrencies took another dramatic turn this week with the announcement of a bug discovered on one of the major bitcoin exchanges. As a result, the MtGox Bitcoin exchange stopped allowing…
In 1975, George Pake, head of the famous Xerox PARC felt that the paperless office was an inevitability. He imagined that by 1995 the world would be using computers to read documents and that this revolution…
In yet another of the weekly revelations from the Snowden NSA PowerPoint slides, Guardian journalists have now reported that the NSA and GCHQ have been allegedly spying on Angry Birds users. Not content…
In the movie her, the main character, Theodore Twombly falls in love with the operating system of his computer. The operating system is run by an artificial intelligence who Theodore calls Samantha, who…
The recent release of the Commonwealth Bank’s CommBank app for the Samsung Galaxy S4 promised to finally herald the era of smartphone payment. The app utilises the NFC capabilities of the Samsung phone…
In another episode of the ongoing rollercoaster of a story that is Bitcoin, about 4,100 of them have been stolen from an online bitcoin wallet site inputs.io. At current exchange rates, this puts the value…