Recently there was some pretty tragic terrorist attacks in Paris which I am sure heard about and probably saw being shared around on Facebook.
Approximately 140 people were tragically killed, with hundreds more injured to varying degree. Even days after the event you would be hard-pressed to find a media outlet (online, print and TV) not talking about what happened in Paris.
In a show of solidarity the Sydney Opera House lit up in the colours of the French flag and Facebook made it so you could overlay the French flag on-top of your profile image (similar to what they did with the gay pride filter).
Just short of a year ago, Microsoft announced anyone who had a paid Office 365 Home or Personal subscription would get unlimited cloud storage on its Dropbox competitor OneDrive as part of the subscription.
Then yesterday Microsoft announced that it had decided not to offer unlimited storage. The reasoning will make you laugh.
Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average.
I love Airbnb. When I travelled to the US and Canada last year for my twiddy vacation on a beach house in the USA, everywhere in Canada we stayed in Airbnb places. The experience of booking is made a lot easier than reserving a room in a hotel or motel.
But there is a problem with Airbnb. Baked into its very DNA, Airbnb has become such a large enterprise they have lost touch with their customers. For you see Airbnb is destroying property markets everywhere, especially in its hometown of San Francisco.
Sometimes it feels like we let the story of the Terminator movies control our emotions when it comes to artifical intelligence.
As the world seemingly becomes more advanced, self-flying drones, self-driving cars and self everything some big names in science and technology have come out warning against the potential threat of AI.
Stephen Hawking thinks artifical intelligence “could spell the end of the human race”, not equally as smart Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he doesn’t, “understand why some people are not concerned” in an AMA that he did on Reddit.
Ladies and gentlemen get out your fire extinguishers, the Hayne Plane has crashed.
The Australian media darling and former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been dropped from the San Francisco 49ers squad as the entire population of Australia goes into mourning.
On Saturday Hayne lost his place on the squad in favour of promoted running back Kendall Gaskins from the practice squad.
Essentially this means Hayne has been put on life support, his career with the 49ers is hanging in the balance. Hayne has been placed on waivers, during in which another NFL club can claim him for themselves, with priority given to the worst performing clubs.
Long live Soundwave.
Seriously, I hate these death posts as much as anyone, but there is a slowly rotting corpse in the room we need to talk about: Soundwave Festival.
Making its national debut in 2007, Soundwave Festival was a breath of fresh air. Finally a music festival that catered to the hard rock, metal loving younger and older generation. Soundwave Festival has been responsible for bring out the kind of bands no other festival would think of bringing.
(seriously) If you’re like me you have a tonne of ideas in notebooks, random text documents on your computer and in your head. Sadly, not every idea is a winner.
Here are some ideas that you should immediately put a red marker through if they are on your list.
Another dating app Everyone thinks they have the answer to the problem of online dating. You do not. The dating space just like the travel space is highly competitive and larger more aggressive players will crush you like a cockroach.
FINALLY!
In a recent townhall Q&A hosted by Mark Zuckerberg in Delhi, India at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Zuckster vowed to kill Facebook game invites.
Whether we will see requests culled before the end of 2015 remains to be seen. But it is nice to know that Mark and presumably others at Facebook are aware how annoying they are. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg ever gets game requests for Candy Crush as well?
You have probably heard that Apple is planning to launch Apple Pay via a partnership with American Express in various countries outside of the US, including Australia in 2016.
I know you are probably thinking, why American Express, don’t like 10 people in Australia own an Amex card? Yes, you are correct. The reason Apple went with Amex is because no other provider or bank outside of the US wanted to give up their card fees.
With a surprisingly vote of most votees in favour, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) has controversially passed in the United States senate.
The final senate vote on Tuesday afternoon was 74 to 21, passing with ease and clearing the path for the bill to become law.
The whole purpose of CISA is supposed to be to prevent the rising trend of corporate data breaches, by allowing companies to share data with the Department of Homeland Security who would then in turn most likely share it with other agencies like the NSA or FBI to help defend the company and others under attack.