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Labor Tries for Australia Card 2.0

Labor Tries for Australia Card 2.0

Australia is having a Reichstag Fire moment. A government that slithered into power on a minority vote is exploiting a crime in order to bring the jackboot down on the citizens’ necks. Labor are shameless in their opportunism. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has called together all the digital ministers to

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Tech Talk: QR Codes?
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Tech Talk: QR Codes?

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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The Metaverse: Is Nowhere Going Somewhere?

The Metaverse: Is Nowhere Going Somewhere?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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Deepfake Audio Has a Tell

Logan Blue Patrick Traynor University of Florida Logan Blue is a sixth year PhD candadite at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS) located at the University of Florida. Patrick Traynor is the John and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Computer

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Tech Talk: The Metaverse and Me

Tech Talk: The Metaverse and Me

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Enchanted by the High Priests of Technology

Thornton Blackmore It has been said that the wizards and sages of ancient times once cast spells at the behest of ambitious kings. And so it follows that the despots of our day have supplanted the sorcerers of old with the high priests of technology in pursuit of their own

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House of the Dragon and Virtual Production

Nina Willment University of York Nina Willment is a cultural economic geographer with broad interests in digital work, the creative economy, affective and aesthetic labour, gig work and the platform economy. In particular, she has a passion for exploring the lived experiences of workers within emerging sectors of the digital,

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Tech Talk: Learning with YouTube?
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Tech Talk: Learning with YouTube?

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Tech Talk: Android Home Screen Tidy Up?
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Tech Talk: Android Home Screen Tidy Up?

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Turning a Blind Eye to Image-Based Abuse

lens.monash.edu Image-based abuse, also commonly known as “revenge pornography” involves three main behaviours – non-consensually taking or creating nude or sexual images, threatening to share or distribute nude or sexual images and non-consensually sharing or distributing nude or sexual images. As many as one in three people across Australia,

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Fauci and Mass Censoring of Social Media

Fauci and Mass Censoring of Social Media

Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to Covid-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown

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Google Play Store Bars Trump’s Truth Social

Google Play Store Bars Trump’s Truth Social

Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa

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Why I’m Averse to the Metaverse

Why I’m Averse to the Metaverse

Karl D Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D Stephan received the BS in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF development

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WEF Wants to Microchip Your Children

WEF Wants to Microchip Your Children

Brian Bradley newsbusters.org Brian Bradley is the Associate Editor for Media Research Center’s Free Speech America and MRC Business. Prior to this position, Brian covered several business topics in our nation’s capital, including education, trade and defense. The World Economic Forum is trying to set guardrails for

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Tech Talk: I’m over Accepting Cookies on Websites
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Tech Talk: I’m over Accepting Cookies on Websites

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Innovation Is Driving the Growth of Alternative Learning Models

Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a senior education fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a regular Forbes

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