The much-awaited Galaxy Note 8 is finally here. With a pre-order date of 5th September, and an official launch date of 22nd September, consumers will be scrambling to get their hands on the latest flagship in Samsung's lineup - despite being the successor to the DIY hand grenade that was the Note 7. And it's epic.
Read MoreI've written before about how disgusting I find it that at a time where the government is stripping away penalty rates for the poorest 17% of our working class, they simultaneously decided to give a $1.2m bonus to a public servant who was already on a salary of $2.4m per year, despite being in charge of the most calamitous execution of a rollout program the world has ever seen.
Read MoreWhat is the value of human life? When AI programmers are playing god with self driving vehicles, it's up to society to put a price on safety.
Read MoreDuring the airing of Game of Thrones earlier this week, few would have been aware that it was ironically difficult to find ice at shooting locations where ice was traditionally plentiful, despite winter having arrived in Westeros.
Read MoreIt's been a long time coming - but here's the first of a long list of best analogies I use to explain fundamental technology principles to the technophobes among us. First off in the list: Bandwidth
The more bandwidth you have, the more information you can push from point A to point B. Bandwidth determines how fast you download a movie, how easily you can stream Netflix, how fast Facebook loads on your phone or how quickly you can send and receive photo's. Bandwidth is a giant, fundamental part of everybody's life in this day and age - and despite how much people like to think they don't need to know about 'this techy stuff' - it will benefit you exponentially to realise how and what bandwidth is. Here's how it works.
Read MoreAbout a month ago I wrote a post called 'Bitcoin going Banana's'. At the time, I pointed out I had made $10AUD turn into $150AUD with Ethereum - an alternative, but superior cryptocurrency (or 'Altcoin'). Earlier today I posted on facebook that the same $10AUD Ethereum is now $280AUD and not 12 hours later that same $10AUD is now worth $315AUD.
Read MoreEver tried desparately to explain an extremely simple concept to somebody that simply gives you a blank look in return, as if you're the idiot for not being able to educate an infant on quantum metaphysics? That's how it feels working in an electronic retailer and dealing with most people, every day.
Read MoreIf starting this blog has taught me one thing at all, it's that waiting for direction is not a direction.
Read MoreWhat does it all mean? How can anybody not born into this technology possibly hope to keep up? It's a tough gig, being born in post-war industrial age. Right before your very eyes you've suddenly witnessed the dawn, growth, evolution and now normalcy of the digital age. And it's only just beginning.
Read MoreElon Musk operates on a different plane to the rest of us.
It's not that he's ridiculously intelligent. It's that he is so far beyond ridiculously intelligent that he struggles, publicly, to talk in a language that mere mortals can understand.
It's not that he's unfathomably gifted. It's that he possesses the most extraordinary combination of humanistic characteristics that is so improbable that a man of this distinction lives in solidarity once every few dozen generations.
It's not that he's introduced new theories similar to the likes of Einstein, Galileo and other historic icons of brilliance. It's that he has done that, and is now subtlety moving humanity forward hundreds of years in mere months - on several frontiers.
And he's only 45.
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