Tag: Internet
The ‘digital divide’ is already hurting people’s quality of life. Will AI make it better or worse?
The benefits of AI are transforming modern life — but disparities in digital confidence are leaving some behind.
Wikipedia's volunteer editors are fleeing online abuse. Here's what that could mean for the internet (and you)
It’s the fourth most popular website in the world, but our new study shows toxic commentary can still thrive on Wikipedia. There’s a lot at stake if too many editors are driven away.
Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?
Optus says the unprecedented outage last week was caused by a ‘routine software upgrade’. An expert explains why this points to more serious problems with the network.
Optus blackout explained: what is a ‘deep network’ outage and what may have caused it?
Optus suffered one of the largest telecommunications outages in Australian history today. Here are the factors that can cause such events.
Most data lives in the cloud. What if it lived under the sea?
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
