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Just 10 days into its life, the My Health Record opt-out system was looking particularly… unhealthy. It didn’t quite cark it, but Australians looking to opt out of the all-in-one digital record of personal health information that they probably didn’t even sign up for in the first place were temporarily unable to do so. The …

When you take your Apple iPhones, iMacs and MacBooks to an Apple Store for repair… are you curious how they get fixed? We may have just gotten a glimpse into that world, proprietary Apple tools and all. We can’t be sure that they’re legit — Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment — but Motherboard’s sources report that …

Today’s deal is a rerun, but one from way back in 2017 — and with the all-important lower price than last time. I’ll cut right to the chase: You can get a Mailbird Pro lifetime subscription for just $14.99. Get it at StackSocial Why would you want such a thing? Let me answer your question with a question: Do you …

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has announced a raft of new legislation that aims to provide additional clarity and protection for consumers looking to switch to the NBN.  A draft of the new rules was first announced by ACMA in April as a response to 12 months of research that demonstrated over one in 10 residential households were left …

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be Google, right?  Until today, if you typed duck.com into your browser right now and smacked the enter key, you’d see google.com appear.  Weird, huh? Particularly considering that there is a search engine known for ducks, and it’s not Google at all — but rather, its privacy-first rival DuckDuckGo, …

I’m going to be 50 this year (the horror, the horror), which means, among other things, I don’t “get” Snapchat. But the kids these days? Oh, yeah. And they’re just the intended audience for Snapchat Spectacles, which debuted in early 2017 and became an overnight Next Big Thing sensation. After that… well, mostly crickets. Maybe everyone realized $130 was a …

Community-based Reddit chat rooms are being released to more subreddits each day, a year after beta tests began. Each subreddit can opt to add a chat room as a casual conversation alternative — one that doesn’t require refreshing to update — and it’ll be added to a directory.  Reddit product designer ityoclys outlined his experience of beta testing the new …

There are over 130 million iPhone users in China, and their data is now being stored by a Chinese government-run company. China Telecom, a state-owned carrier in China, is now in control of storing Chinese users’ iCloud data, it announced on Tuesday. It takes this duty from Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, who controversially gained operation control over Apple’s iCloud business in …

For 29 years, Her Majesty’s Submarine Ocelot quietly patrolled the Atlantic. Many of her missions are still classified to this day, nearly 30 years removed from her decommission in 1991. For months at a time, her crew of 69 men would stealthily listen and track enemy subs and ships using advanced sonar arrays.  She covered over 90,000 miles in her …

While you may be reading this on your phone, Cubans are just beginning to get internet connection on theirs. The Communist-run country has begun connecting selected phone users to the world wide web, Reuters reported Tuesday, adding that it wants to make mobile internet available across the nation by end of this year. The service, provided by local telco ETECSA, …