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CellOPark’s transition to OPark has been marred by a confusing email sent to its customers.

CellOPark threatens legal action in ‘commercial dispute’ after email confusion

Parking app company CellOPark has promised to “take all steps, including legal action” after confusing emails were sent to customers.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and William Davis

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CellOPark has a contract with universities throughout Australia, as well as the Brisbane City Council.

Confusing parking app emails leave drivers going round in circles

CellOPark users have been caught up in an apparent internal stoush within the company, whose app allows people to pay for parking with their smartphones.

  • Rosanna Ryan
Social media bans will be difficult to enforce.

Australians like banning teens from social media. They just don’t think it’ll work

The findings highlight a risk for Labor and scepticism among voters as Albanese heads to the next election pursuing a broader tech crackdown.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
ClassPass has revolutionised the fitness space, but some are critical of its model.

The ‘Uber Eats of fitness’: What your $10 gym class is really costing

Fitness app ClassPass makes booking group classes such as Pilates more convenient, and often cheaper. But studio owners say it’s killing the local industry.

  • Melissa Singer
Apple’s App Store is the only way to download new apps in Australia, and a percentage of anything you pay to developers and service-providers goes to Apple.

Will new competition laws make your digital life cheaper?

An EU-style regime aims to stop big tech locking down their platforms. But we are still a long way from making smartphones a truly open ecosystem, like home computers.

  • Tim Biggs
The ruling has the potential to revolutionise the internet.

The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die

The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers.

  • Alex Tanzi
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Apple’s app store and similar stores will be targeted by the government’s overhaul of competition law.

Tech giants face $50 million fines in app store battle

Just days after banning under 16s from social media, the federal government is now targeting tech companies’ app stores amid competition fears.

  • Shane Wright
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To stop screen addiction, this school will give out phones. But there’s a catch

As families struggle to manage their children’s screen obsessions, Pymble Ladies’ College has devised a ground-breaking way to help.

  • Jordan Baker
The Albanese government plans to ban children from accessing social media but has not said how its proposal would work.

How would a social media ban actually work?

Almost a quarter of children aged eight to 10 use social media, as do half of 13-year-olds. How would new laws banning them from apps actually keep them off?

  • Paul Sakkal, David Swan and Tim Biggs
Telegram has been used to motivate some Trump supporters “fight like hell”. 

On Telegram, a violent preview of what may unfold during and after the US election

Far-right groups like the Proud Boys are revving people up to fight should Trump lose, with some promising “to get you trained and ready for election day”.

  • Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers

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