YouTube turns 20. Read its eight steps of disruption
By Alex Connock
The world’s biggest video sharing platform, YouTube, has just turned 20.
It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad
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ACCC urges airlines to increase seat capacity
Most flights between Australia’s major cities are more than 90 percent full, the highest capacity rate in more than six years.
In releasing the latest Domestic Airline
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Food fingerprint database to support sustainability
A new national database aims to maintain the integrity of Australia’s reputation in producing safe and sustainable food.
The CSIRO has launched a website that
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Children exposed to disturbing chatbot conversations
AI-driven chatbots are exposing Australian children to interactive content across a range of topics from sex to drug-taking, self-harm, suicide and serious illnesses,
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Police respond to 4200 airport incidents over holidays
Police were called to more than 4000 incidents at Australia’s major airports over the Christmas-New Year holiday period.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Aviation
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ATO clarifies smokescreen around sunscreen
If the price of your favourite skin care product goes up, don’t blame the ATO.
That’s the message the Australian Taxation Office after recent reports suggested the
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Beefed up housing ban on foreign investors
Foreign investors will be banned from buying established homes in Australia for at least two years.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers said foreign purchases of established
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De Jersey new chair of Legal Aid Queensland Board
Former Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey is the new Chair of the Legal Aid Queensland Board.
State Attorney-General Deb Frecklington said Mr de Jersey would succeed
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Brisbane the centre of Asia-Pacfic agricultural technology
Thousands of Australian and international agricultural technology leaders will converge on Brisbane this week.
AgriFuture’s evokeAG, the Asia-Pacific region’s
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Capped interest rate call for first home buyers
An interest rate cap for first-home buyers would provide a much needed boost to those struggling to enter the housing market, according to the Property Council.
Chief
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