australia

The Australian Environment and Communications Reference Committee (ECRC) has released the results of a survey conducted on 7,000 gamers to see if there is a connection between gambling and loot boxes. The researchers found that loot boxes are psychologically akin to gambling, although they are...

Australia is the site of the first commercial installation of solar cells that have been printed. These cells were printed using a wine label printer and 2000 square meters of them were installed by five people in one day. This is an amazing feat and this technology may be the one that brings...

Apps that enable users to watch IPTV services are nothing new. However now BGR is reporting that two Australian media companies are looking to reduce the use of paid pirate IPTV boxes, not by going after the manufacturers or sellers, but by shutting down the app stores that they use. The stores...

Hunter Energy in Australia is bringing one of their coal-powered power plants out of mothballs to help establish a wholesale energy zone for blockchain projects/companies. Not many blockchain operations exist in Australia because of their high electricity prices, but this plant is coming back...

It appears that the Australians learned nothing from the Russians that we wrote about last month. ABC News Australia is reporting that two employees from the Bureau of Meteorology are being investigated by the Australian Federal Police for allegedly running an elaborate operation to mine...

I discovered Have I Been Pwned last year and I found it to be a valuable resource to check my main email accounts to see if any have been compromised. Now it appears the UK and Australian governments think it's pretty valuable and they are using it to monitor their official domains. If it's...

Electro.Aero is working to develop an electric plane that can be used to fly short hops to act as air-taxis in Australia. They recently completed their first test flight and it went off without a hitch. The plane features supercharging tech that allows it to charge quickly and because there's...

The full bench of the Australian Federal Court has dismissed two appeals that Valve made against a $3 million fine for misleading gamers. This dates back to 2014 when the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed suit against Valve for engaging in misleading or deceptive...

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) proposes to use a program called automated essay scoring for all primary and secondary schools. According to the author of this piece, (WARNING BS spelled out in article) you will receive a grade within seconds and as long as...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission or (ACCC) is seeking to sue Apple for bricking iOS devices that had been repaired by third party repairers. An update for iOS 9 started the bricking of devices as it could detect third party tampering with the home button or fingerprint...