Month: May 2021

Android 12: everything you need to know about Google’s update

Upgrade is big design overhaul, improves speed and privacy and adds new features to Maps and Photos Google has announced its big update to Android 12, which will soon roll out in beta to the company’s Pixel devices and those made by third-party manufacturers. Announced as part of Google’s I/O developer conference in California, Android …

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‘Privacy by design’: Google to give people more power over their personal data

New privacy controls include allowing people to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of their search history and more reminders about location tracking Google is attempting a rebrand with a suite of new privacy controls that give people more power over their personal data – but the move may conflict with its core business of …

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‘It’s chaos for a lot of people’: what is the future of NFTs in Australian art?

While many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all in In 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, …

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Apple 24in iMac M1 review: faster, bigger screen and brilliant bold colours

First big redesign since 2012 gives all-in-one Mac super-thin design, 4.5K display and top M1 chip performance Apple’s iMac has had its first big redesign since 2012 with a bigger screen, bold colours, remarkably thin body and the power of the M1 chip. The 24in iMac costs from £1,249 and replaces the outgoing 21.5in Intel …

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Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen | Lauren Bridges

One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately-owned home security cameras without a warrant In a 2020 letter to management, Max Eliaser, an Amazon software engineer, said Ring is “simply not compatible with a free society”. We should take his claim seriously. Ring video doorbells, Amazon’s signature home security …

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NBN to replace 10,000 modems after lightning ‘fries’ devices across Blue Mountains

One family said blue sparks were flying from their modem as electrical storms wreaked havoc on fibre-to-the-curb distribution boxes NBN Co will be forced to replace 10,000 faulty broadband devices in homes across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney after residents reported the technology was frequently struck by lightning and in one instance led to …

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