‘Why I regret giving my son a smartphone’
An Aussie mum has revealed how smartphones have affected her family, as new data shows 10,000 parents’ concerns about screen addiction. Plus, we show you the best ‘dumb’ phones on offer.
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Chilling iPad warning after huge blaze
The family has had their home destroyed and a pet has been killed after they left an iPad charging while no one was home.
PM’s social media ban like ‘whack-a-mole’
As the PM shores up plans for a social media ban for Aussie teenagers, Facebook’s head of global affairs has called the proposal a ‘whack-a-mole nightmare’ for parents.
Espresso war brews as US interloper enters Breville territory
KitchenAid has muscled in on Australia’s espresso machine market. Is this another Starbucks moment or can America finally make a good coffee?
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Kim Jong Un fires newly equipped ‘super-large’ rocket launchers
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Retail giant spruiks sale on massive TVs
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Outage hits Telstra, thousands affected
A major outage rippled across Australia in the afternoon, with the country’s largest telco scrambling to deliver a fix.
Calls for Australia to crackdown on TikTok
The TikTok app, and its 8.5 million Australian users, face an uncertain outlook with growing concerns by governments over its safety.
This is the phone Kate should have used to avoid photo fallout
It’s the phone that ticks almost every box on the longest shopping list of features for fun, photography, travel, productivity, gaming, and just doing life. And the Princess of Wales probably wishes she used one of them.
Zuck roadtests the new Meta AI glasses
Mark Zuckerberg on a weekend in Montana tried Meta’s new Ray-Ban AI glasses to test them out.
Onlyfans model has a chilling sight outside her window
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‘Bloody thugs’: Lambie fires at tech giants
Senator Jacqui Lambie has blasted global technology giants, like Meta, labelling them “bloody thugs” and warning of dangerous addictions among children.
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