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[Link] 'Not allowed': Naomi Osaka ban comes to light after Australian Open
Read: 6/2/2022 au.sports.yahoo.com
Details have emerged after the Australian Open about how Naomi Osaka was banned from wearing a new watch from sponsors TAG Heuer. Osaka teamed up with Tag Heuer just weeks before the Australian Open, designing a limited-edition watch with the Swiss luxury brand.
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[Link] Australia’s free-to-air channels demand guaranteed prime position on smart TVs
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s commercial free-to-air TV channels have called on the federal government to introduce legislation guaranteeing them prominence on smart TV home screens, claiming they are becoming “increasingly hard to find” among global streaming rivals such as Netflix.
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[Link] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energ
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[Link] Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Register reader triggered a kerfuffle for Samsung after asking the electronics biz if he could disable large and intrusive adverts splattered across his new smart TV's programme guide.
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[Link] Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
[Kevin Norman] got himself a smart body scale with the intention of logging data for his own analysis, but discovered that extracting data from the device was anything but easy. It turns out that the only way to access data from his scale is by viewing it in a mobile app.
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[Link] ESP32-Cam Makes A Dandy Motion Detector
Read: 24/10/2021 hackaday.com
Halloween is right around the corner and just about every Halloween project needs some kind of motion sensor. Historically, we’ve used IR and ultrasonic sensors but [Makers Mashup] decided to use an ESP32-Cam as a motion sensor in his latest animatronic creation.
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[Link] Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations
Read: 22/10/2021 hackaday.com
As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux running under the hood.
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