Computers, mobile phones, screens and tablets have become an intrinsic part of our daily lives revolutionising the way we interact, communicate and view the world. Keeping up with the latest models and lifestyle products has firmly positioned us, consumers, as the driving force behind a runaway cycle of technological advancement.>>>
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Phones started off the size of bricks, then slowly got smaller. Then they could flip and slide. Getting the best phone in 2020 is a costly purchase no matter if it comes from Samsung, Apple, or Google and we’ve seen a majority of new phones over the years. But they>>>
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Aboriginal people living on islands off the Northern Territory coast went without food, fuel and essential supplies for almost three days last week after a telecommunications outage left them “sick, angry, hungry and forgotten” with no support from emergency services. Residents in eight small communities in the Groote archipelago had>>>
This summer’s bushfires were not simply ravaging occasions in themselves. More broadly, they highlighted the tremendous vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary lives possible. The fires cut road access, which indicated towns lacked fuel and fell low on food. Power to towns was cut and mobile phone services>>>
Technology is not constantly sure-fire and that’s exactly what a brand-new Google Maps experiment attempted to prove. Artist Simon Weckert has actually published a video on YouTube demonstrating how he managed to “hack” Google Maps to develop virtual traffic congestion on the streets of Berlin. For his experiment, Weckert filled>>>