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    Apr 2

    G’Day

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  2. 9 hours ago

    “Do we want to see Waleed’s nudes?” - a phrase I never thought I’d say on national TV

    . (on Facebook): "The robots are smart enough to detect the things that are questionable but it does lead to privacy intrusions on a case-by-case basis, of course."
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  3. 10 hours ago

    Nothing is more shameful in life than your housemate catching you posing while taking a selfie. This just happened to me...

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  4. 11 hours ago

    On tonight, talking about the latest Facebook revelations.

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Noooooo "Australia’s e-health record operator has begun investigating whether a virtual assistant could help answer questions about the personal e-health record that will shortly be created for every Australian under the opt-out My Health Record scheme."

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    16 hours ago

    anyone who writes about startups should remember the default is failure, not success. so many breathless writeups from the current cycle abot $ raising etc are going to look bad in the next few years

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    18 hours ago

    Hardware is hard. Hopefully Allen gets well and we see him back with new project. Imagine lot of learnings from this.

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  8. Apr 4

    What a strange story...

    public figures rarely recognise me either, I don't think it's weird that David Warner didn't know the name of this reporter
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  9. Apr 4

    *Reads* Uber Poo *Double take* Uber Poo *Triple take* Ohhhhhhhh

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  10. Apr 3

    Alternatively, can tech boffins please invent a tool for Gmail/Chrome (or suggest on) that does optical character recognition on images, turns it into plaintext magically, figures out that it's an event, and turns it into a calendar invitation.

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  11. Apr 3

    PRs: Please ~pleaseeeeeee~ stop sending event invitations you've clearly spent hours creating in Canva or whatever as an image without also including the details in plaintext so that I can paste it into my calendar. Yours faithfully, Journos worldwide

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  12. Apr 3

    It just took me ten goes to place my iPhone on a wireless charging pad... Why I do this to myself? Ugh.

    It’s so much more convenient coming back from lunch and just placing - wait, hmm, move it, ok move it back, huh, move it back again *vibrate* ah there it is - my phone on a wireless charger.
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  13. Apr 3

    This is a hard one. You want their privacy to be respected but you also want to figure out how one phone call can let you in the county.

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  14. Apr 3

    To the federal court, !

    BREAKING NEWS... Key details related to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's decision to grant visas on public interest grounds to two au pairs in 2015 must continue to be suppressed, a tribunal has ruled.
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  15. Apr 3

    Lol Ruslan Kogan has blocked me on LinkedIn too. Weird for a guy who is one of the key backers and co-founders of leading Sydney tech PR firm Sling & Stone...

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  16. Apr 2

    What a joke of a tech CEO* He deleted the tweet, so that’s a start...then blocked basically everyone who complained.

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  17. Apr 2

    Hahahahahahhaha What a joke or a tech CEO

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  18. Apr 2

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    John McAfee is charging $105,000 for tweets promoting ICOs
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  19. Apr 2

    tfw you not special enough to receive the embargoed release and the PR company leaves behind an obvious clue

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  20. Apr 2

    I can just imagine him getting his lackeys to stand outside, personal hotspotting their phones, on rotation with battery packs

    Ahahahhahhahhahhhahhahh *breathes* AhahaAhhhaahhaHAHAAHAH
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