Is Your Phone Listening to You? What the Evidence Shows
You mention a holiday to Fiji over dinner, and the next morning your feed is full of Fiji resorts. You say you need new tyres, and suddenly every second ad…
Why Does Your Phone Battery Drain Faster in Heat and Cold?
Leave your phone on the dashboard on a 35-degree day and it might greet you with a black screen and a warning that it needs to cool down. Take it…
Why Is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth? The Viking King Behind It
Working in IT, I pair Bluetooth devices without a second thought: headsets, keyboards, mice, phones, the speaker in every meeting room. It took me an embarrassingly long time to ask…
The History of Nintendo: From Playing Cards to the Switch
For most of us, Nintendo means Mario, Zelda, Pokémon and the Switch. But the history of Nintendo goes back much further than video games, or even television. The company was…
Why Does the Inventor of the Web Regret the Double Slash?
In October 2009, at a technology symposium at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee what he would have done differently…
The History of the Internet: From ARPANET to Australia
It is hard to imagine a day without the internet, yet it is younger than many of the people using it. The history of the internet runs from a crashed…
Bitcoin Explained: What It Is and How It Actually Works
Before exploring what Bitcoin is, it helps to ask a simpler question: what is money? Every modern society uses some kind of money to exchange goods and services, and at…
Is 5G Safe? What the Science and Australia’s Regulator Say
Is 5G safe? Based on the current evidence, yes. 5G operating within Australia’s exposure limits isn’t considered a health hazard, and real-world measurements show exposure sits far below those limits.…