Facebook: Why do you torment me so?

9 Feb 2016 | Facebook, which does so much to bring people together, can be a veritable nightmare when they ...  

Turnbull's media censorship and his NBN mess

22 Jan 2016 | The failure of mainstream media to report on Turnbull's NBN mess, Australia's mostly costly ...  

Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Ross and the sad story of a broken ABC

19 Jan 2016 | The final shreds of the ABC's reputation have just fluttered away in the wind, writes managing ...  

The bunfight over super intelligence

8 Jan 2016 | Some very bright people think that the quest for artificial intelligence could become an existe ...  

Screen Themes: Assassins Creed: Syndicate vs WWE 2K16

7 Dec 2015 | Entertainment editor John Turnbull returns to the console and checks out the newest additions to ...  

Why are Liberal and Labor so infatuated with start-ups?

26 Oct 2015 | In the overwhelming majority of cases, public money for startups goes towards short term, low ...  

Australia falling behind in the innovation stakes

15 Oct 2015 | The Australian government allocates about 2.4 per cent of GDP to research and innovation – ...  

Snowden and others issue warnings as Australia unleashes mass spying

14 Oct 2015 | Consumer advocates tell users to 'go dark against data retention', in a campaign against invasive ...  

Hawking and 1000+ other science/tech experts call for ban on AI 'killer robots'

28 Jul 2015 | Weapons that can kill without human operators are 'the third revolution in warfare' artificial ...  

Edward Snowden calls for technologists to build an internet for the people

22 Jul 2015 | 'Everybody should be safe all the time, else we let others choose who will be safe or not,' ...  

David Suzuki: Who says a better world is impossible?

27 Mar 2015 | Claims that replacing fossil fuels with clean energy is beyond our reach are both facile and ...  

Metadata laws provide inadequate protections

25 Mar 2015 | The new metadata legislation does not adequately protect all those receiving information or ...  

Big coal allegedly buys 500,000 social media followers — then denies it

9 Dec 2014 | Peabody Energy, through astroturfing experts Burson Marsteller, bought 500,000 social media ...  

Malcolm Turnbull’s NNBN (NOT National Broadband Network)

21 Oct 2014 | Before moving to Tasmania, Denise McAvaney thought the National Broadband Network was meant to be ...  

Flappy Ears games Abbott

17 Aug 2014 | Played Flappy Bird? Well, welcome to Flappy Ears, a parody of this mobile game featuring our ...  

Tony and Soapy's metadata meddling: Unfair, unwise and unsafe

7 Aug 2014 | Abbott and Brandis like to loudly proclaim their commitment to “freedom of speech”, however ...  

Australia's online news: What's worth watching and reading

25 Jul 2014 | Independent online outlets are overtaking newspapers as sources of news and opinion. Alan Austin ...  

Why alternative media are conquering the world

13 Jul 2014 | Alternative media are rapidly overtaking print media as the go to sources of news and opinion. ...