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Wait Mate co-founder Jessica Mendoza-Roth said smartphones “are like pokies in children’s pockets”.

Gaming, smartphone addiction starts in primary school as daily screen times soar

The study of students in years four to eight found the average daily screen time for junior high schoolers was nine hours a day.

  • Jordan Baker

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Rob DenBleyker (left), Kris Wilson (centre) and Adam Nusrallah. Cyanide & Happiness are coming to Oz Comic-Con for the first time.

Edgy or offensive? How these early-2000s internet creators kept webcomics alive

Webcomics are well past their peak, but Cyanide & Happiness is still deep in the game. Here’s how it has managed to keep up with the non-stop beast that is the internet.

  • Nell Geraets
One of the people who appear in new TV adverts aimed at promoting tourism into Australia launched on Thursday February 23 2006 by Tourism Australia . Image supplied TA. Lara Bingle Lara Bingle in Tourism Australia ad, 2006 So where the bloody hell are you?

WTF! Australians don’t swear as much as others do online, study shows

The University of Queensland researchers examined more than 1.7 billion words of online content across 20 English-speaking countries.

  • Savannah Meacham
Lukas Winward, with daughters Maggie, left, and Layla.

They’re a childhood rite of passage, so why are more parents saying ‘no’ to sleepovers?

With concerns around safety and unsupervised access to the internet, some parents don’t feel comfortable with sleepovers.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
We used to be a society, now look at us.

It’s time to face the truth: The internet has ruined everything

We used to be a society, now look at us.

  • Richard Glover
4chan has for years served as an incubator for some of the internet’s most viral memes, as well a range of subcultures.

Notorious internet message board 4chan has been hacked, posts claim

The claim of a hack “looks legit”, according to cybercrime experts.

  • Raphael Satter
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Patrick Cripps, Bruce Buffer and Michael Clarke are among the most expensive Swysh stars.

I paid an athlete $120 to send me a personalised video. You can, too

Thousands of celebrities are sending personalised videos to paying fans. But how exactly does it work?

  • Gemma Grant
The major parties both have websites set up to harvest personal data from voters under the guise of helping apply for postal votes.

Major parties harvesting personal data under guise of helping voters

The major parties are harvesting personal details in the guise of helping voters apply for postal ballots at the very start of a hotly contested election campaign.

  • James Massola and Mike Foley
There is a real challenge of ensuring that superintelligent machines will remain aligned with human values and interests.

His name is Claude, and he may be Silicon Valley’s most beloved confidant

To the people who love the AI chatbot, Claude just feels … different. More creative and empathetic. Less gratingly robotic. More like a smart, attentive human.

  • Kevin Roose
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has reshaped the company’s approach to the truth.

In one fell swoop, Meta enters its ‘post-truth’ era

With Wednesday’s decision, Mark Zuckerberg has cemented Silicon Valley’s radical facelift as it cosies up to President-elect Donald Trump.

  • David Swan

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