Category: News
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Optus push notification ads on iPhone
What an eventful week for Optus! Earlier this week there was speculation that the telecommunications company would be letting 1000 employees go in an attempt to cut costs. They denied the mass redundancies but are again in the limelight just days later. This time it’s in regards to a recent update to the Optus iPhone…
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Twitter launches ‘Moments’ in Australia
In a bid to attract its non-active users, Twitter has introduced its Moments feature in Australia. Aussies will be the first Twitter users in the Asia Pacific region to have Moments bring them the very best of Twitter across a range of topics. It aims to deliver the best stories from all over the world…
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Canada to Legalise Medically Assisted Death
By June 2016, Canada will join the handful of nations worldwide, that permit medically assisted death. The Liberal Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is working to produce a law that recognises citizens legal rights to ‘die with dignity’. Canada’s Supreme court previously ruled that the parliament must have legislation, passed and enforceable by mid-year, meaning…
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Australian media ownership laws to change
A long-awaited legislation to abolish current media ownership laws has finally been approved by the Coalition. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield proposed amendments to the Broadcast Services act. The changes will eliminate the ‘reach rule’, which prevents a television broadcaster to reach more than 75 per cent of the population. It also stops mergers between regional…
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Youtube finds its way to the Oscars thanks to Casey Nesitat
Casey Neistat is a vlogger (daily video diary maker) and movie maker on youtube as well as the creator of Beme (an app that allows you to take short videos without having to remove your eyes from the scene). He was invited to film the Oscars from his point of view using Samsung’s new gear…
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Flight Centre help 2500 redundant Dick Smith employees
Human Resources director for Flight Centre Travel Group, Carol Cooper, announced that Dick Smith employees facing redundancy would get through to the final stage of the travel agency’s recruitment process. Dick Smith announced their closure last week, which will result in 2,460 job losses over the next eight weeks. A letter obtained by Business Insider…
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Fast NBN is slow to rollout
Australia’s super fast National Broadband Network (NBN) is ironically super-slow to rollout and, as costs rise, an internal report obtained by Fairfax Media has revealed that it has fallen two-thirds short of its benchmark construction timetable. While nearly 1.5 million premises should have been approved, only 662, 665 have been given the go-ahead thus far. With…
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Apple refuses to unlock phone of San Bernardino shooters
The FBI wants Apple to write a software to unlock an iPhone left behind by one of the San Bernardino shooters who killed 14 people and injured 22 at a holiday party last December. They believe there could be potential information about future attacks that they cannot access due the phone becoming permanently inaccessible after…
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Humans over computers: Mercedes ditches robots for a human touch
Robots are quickly gaining a lot of intelligence, just last month Google created AI that could beat a human in the ancient game of Go. However, German car company, Mercedes are favouring people on their assembly line rather than robots. According to Bloomberg, the new S-Class boasts a lot of intricate details that robots cannot cope with,…
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Apple co-founder ‘Woz’ heads to Sydney for future technology transport summit
The New South Wales government has made an encouraging and clever move by inviting some of the most innovative people in the world to the future technology transport summit. One of the esteemed guests is Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, or “Woz”, plus 150 sharp minds who are leaders in tech and transport. The two-day summit, April 18-19,…