Families living on Mornington Island have to make compromises due to a lack of digital services – including missing out on cultural activities on Country .
Some professors now assign Wikipedia editing as an alternative to the traditional research paper.
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Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments.
Large language model AI responds to questions but doesn’t actually know anything and is prone to making things up.
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Searching the web with ChatGPT is like talking to an expert – if you’re OK getting a mix of fact and fiction. But even if it were error-free, searching this way comes with hidden costs.
The internet is used for a lot more than just surfing the web.
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Addiction to social media can affect the emotional well-being of adolescents and young adults. But staying offline — even for only a few hours a day — can help.
The terms Web3 and Web 3.0 are often used interchangeably, but they are different concepts.
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Lateral reading, self-nudging and a persistent refusal to feed the trolls are some of the ways one can better manage information.
What happened to all of the content posted on social media platforms and blogs — like MySpace and LiveJournal — more than two decades ago?
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Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
The real reasons to be worried about men’s quality of life does not mean discussions about equality should become a zero sum game.
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Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
When asked to recall the popular children’s book series ‘The Berenstain Bears,’ many people make the same error by spelling it ‘The Berenstein Bears.’
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People are puzzled when they learn they share the same false memories with others. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be based only on personal experience.
Is your broadband internet service always up to speed when you need it?
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Ensuring that billions of dollars of federal funding for broadband service are well spent – and that consumers get what they pay for – comes down to knowing the actual speeds internet users experience.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on September 10 — with 34 Starlink satellites and a rideshare package for AST SpaceMobile. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Deputy Dean Research at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne