Culture
Blunt instruments won't solve the social media challenge
Parents are absent from the picture as politicians skip science to enact bad laws that create some nice feelings but do nothing to solve real problems.
Politics
Governing the digital era
Politics
A reality check on the science of social media research
Labor premiers and federal leaders are sure buying into some solid moral panic on social media and its impact on teens. I'm well on the record as no fan of Facebook, but when it comes to how to write policy we want evidence-based decisions. And one of the
Business
Anyone notice Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition in stores?
Consumer champions CHOICE have spotted big retailers doing a very poor job of letting customers know they're running biometric surveillance.
Politics
A platform of certainty
Knowing there's firm footing ahead makes big ideas easier to pursue.
Media
The quality of our questions
Back to basics for the media industry - or is it too late?
Games
Australian govt ironically surprises everyone with loot box classification announcement
Not even the local games industry was expecting the Coalition to make an election announcement about loot boxes.
Games
Is the DGTO really going to help?
We chat to R&D tax incentive expert Ben Thompson from Techlever about the Digital Games Tax Offset and some of the issues he'd like to see addressed ahead of its introduction.
Media
Programmatic identity
The programmed public square has been a terrible place to live our lockdown lives, showing each of us exactly and only what it thinks we want the world to look like.
Technology
Australia's COVID-19 vaccine certificate now load into digital wallets
Apple Wallet and Google Pay support is now available for Australian COVID-19 vaccination certificates through the latest Medicare app update.
Art & Design
Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.
Politics
Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines
Key Master machines are off to court for being marketed as skill-based when manuals show how their settings really work.
Big Ideas
"Cold snap means it isn't real" and other climate change myths busted
It isn't "good for us", it won't fix itself, and weather isn't climate. We bust the big myths wheeled out again and again by deniers.