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Clementine Ford and Lindy West, doyennes of the internet and social media, feminists, and writers, are travelling to Perth, Western Australia to appear at the Perth Writers Festival. Both of these writers…
The 3 major Australian banks have signalled that they have no intention of supporting Apple Pay any time soon with an updated submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Westpac…
Whilst announcing NBN Co’s 2017 half year results, CEO Bill Morrow stated that there was little market demand for faster broadband speeds than the 100 Mbps being currently offered on the NBN. Morrow made…
As Twitter announces new measures to deal with abuse on its platform, new research from Stanford and Cornell universities has highlighted how big a challenge that is going to be. It turns out that the…
127, mostly tech, companies have signed a brief of support opposing US President Trump’s “Muslim travel ban”. The companies, that include Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Tesla have filed an “amicus…
Snapchat’s parent company Snap has filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock exchange. Hoping to raise US $3 billion, the IPO would value Snap at between US $20 and $25 billion…
In an attempt to increase the security of online accounts, Facebook has added support for 2 factor authentication using USB security keys. The security keys supported are ones that support a standard called…
The Guardian has drawn the ire of a large number of cryptography and security experts by publishing a story claiming that WhatsApp has a security backdoor that would allow it, or governments, to snoop…
As one of his parting acts as US President, Barack Obama retaliated against alleged Russian interference in the recent US election by expelling 35 Russian government officials from the US and placing sanctions…
It is 10 years this week since Steve Jobs walked onto a stage and said “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything”. He was referring to the iPhone, launched on…