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John Lampard
disassociated (usually all lowercase, sometimes all uppercase) sates a 1997 high-school like fascination with web design, and, for better or worse, has been transmitting from the east coast of Australia ever since. On and off, and in different formats, but it all kicked off in 1997.
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Emma Roth, writing for The Verge: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only...
Emma Wynne, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): When Perth mother Lisa Taylor’s 11-year-old daughter slipped one arm out of her seatbelt, the family had been on the road for over two hours, returning from a holiday...
People unfortunate enough to have one, or more, toxic people in their lives, are more likely to experience accelerated biological ageing, according to research published by PNAS. This is, no doubt, something anyone subjected to the...
Libraries, letters, street magazines, and face-to-face social networking. This is how I saw a world without the internet sixteen years ago. Most very serious.
The new tool will look after some aspects of the design and maintenance of a WordPress.com blog. As I understand it, the AI assistant will not write content, though it can “edit and refine” posts if asked. The assistant however can...
Kali Hays, Regan Morris, and Peter Bowes, writing for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The head of Instagram has defended his platform against claims it caused mental health damage to minors, arguing in a California court that...
Jacinta Bowler writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): The condition, known as tattoo-associated uveitis, can lead to permanent vision loss, glaucoma, and patients requiring immunosuppressants for the rest of their...
The Australian literary journal closed late last year after then publisher, Melbourne University Press (MUP), said the long running publication was no longer financially viable. Earlier this week, the Queensland University of Technology...
Developers of Linux Mint (LM), the operating system (OS) I now use, are considering increasing the time between major updates, writes Brian Fagioli, at NERDS.xyz. Presently major updates roll out at leisurely six month intervals. To be...
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye, writing for Harvard Business Review: In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it. In an eight-month study of how generative AI...
Elon Musk, in his capacity as CEO of SpaceX, wants to build a “self-growing” city on the Moon. He thinks the task will take about ten years to complete. Establishing a permanent base on the Moon seems like a worthwhile goal, but is not...
Applications are open until 17 March 2026, for the role of Australian National Poet Laureate: The National Poet Laureate is a three‑year appointment that recognises an outstanding Australian poet whose work and cultural contribution have...
Jonathan Morton, at Statcounter: We have seen a significant rise in bot traffic to websites in recent months. These bots are adopting new methods to avoid detection and when they flood your stats with fake visits, they can make it very...
Jared Isaacman, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrator, writing on X/Twitter: NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II. We are giving our crews the...
AI agents might be smart enough to tell us how to, say, mow the lawn. But an AI agent cannot actually mow a lawn itself. Unless, perhaps, the lawn-mower in question is a smart machine, that an AI agent might be able to control....