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Where we've been, where we're going

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Digital capitulation

3

Amazon hates social media too

4

Jet fuel from crop waste

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"A shameful chapter"

6

The award goes to...

7

This cowboy will really be a bop

8

An eternity on the line

9

Bezos straps in for space trip

10

The Hot Sauce of Oblivion

11

Far Cry hits Zero Latency

12

First devil babies in 3,000 years

13

Charged in eight minutes

14

Japan is sending a transformer to the moon

15

HRC wants a big pause on AI

16

Bond meets Bezos

17

Victoria's horrible EV law passes

18

Most pirates just give up

19

iView to mandate account creation

20

Everyone Is Awesome

21

Internet Explorer: 1995-2022

22

A shiny new You at Google I/O

23

Aussie stars #sendit to Cloud9

24

The Disinformation Dozen

25

Should parliament ban smartphones?

26

Type by imagining your handwriting

27

Ebay wants in on NFTs

28

DeepMind hits the football field

29

Pentanet makes history

30

Lunar crater telescope moves to phase two

31

Aussie games finally catch a tax break

32

The realest lightsaber yet

33

Would you pay for Facebook?

34

Ingenuity gets new mission on Mars

35

Jeff Goldblum joins D&D podcast Dark Dice

36

Loose QR codes + Netflix is ready to 'Play Something'

37

Craig Kelly talks at length about Facebook killing his freedom of speech

38

One year of "digital sunscreen"

39

Vale Dan Kaminksy

40

Percy makes oxygen on Mars while Signal hacks the hackers

41

Microsoft Outlook can now mandate breaks between meetings

42

Colourful iMacs vs Kmart robots

43

You can now move your Facebook posts to Wordpress

44

Google battles galore and RIP Chuck Geschke, Adobe co-founder

45

Logitech brings an end to the Harmony era

46

Australia's Azimuth Security revealed as FBI iPhone hack assistants

47

NSW wants quantum powered transport while Brave blocks Google's FLoC

48

Menulog will employ gig workers; Microsoft buys Nuance; ANU fights space junk

49

Methane-eating bacteria found in paperbark trees

50

Hunt, Birmingham and other senior government officials hit in phishing attacks

51

Muon experiments could reveal fifth force of nature

52

$1 chip shortages stalling all technology production

53

Shutdowns ahead from LG mobile and Yahoo Answers

54

Machine learning helps explore the evolution of Arnhem Land rock art

55

Manipulating antimatter with a Canadian laser at CERN

56

The Louvre is now online for free

57

Solar and battery can replace fossils for grid stability

58

Nine live broadcasts stopped by cyberattack

59

Is the ABS ready for Census Night 2021?

60

Slack will now let anyone message anyone else who uses Slack

61

Discord up for sale and Telstra prepares to split

62

ANAO finds govt fails to meet minimum cybersecurity standards

63

5G is performing 5.3x better than 4G in Australia

64

Facebook reveals a neural wristband technology for AR

65

How bad is streaming an hour of Netflix for the environment?

66

California is making 'dark patterns' illegal

67

March 16, 2021: Google Photos storage reprieve - for some

68

March 15, 2021: Zoom and Enhance with Adobe Super Resolution

69

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