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Tech news from Australia and abroad, with Mashable reporter/tech extraordinaire Johnny Lieu and FBi's Lucy Smith.
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13.12.17 - The Final Episode - Taxify & Shazam's New Owner
It's the final episode of Start Up! Johnny Lieu is moving on after coming in every week to talk tech, and Lucy Smith is wrapping up as host of Up For...
6.12.17 - Animal Exploitation Via Selfies & 25 Years Of The SMS
Johnny Lieu joined Lucy Smith to chat about how Instagram is chock full of animal pictures, but now the social network is cracking down on selfies tha...
29.11.17 - 'Pay To Win' Games & Net Neutrality
Lucy and Johnny talked about the furore over 'pay to win' games, which have people so mad that the government is considering labelling them as gamblin...
22.11.17- YouTube Kids & AllVoices
For exhausted parents, YouTube’s Kids app has been a easy way to entertain young children with endless video — but there’s been increasing concern on...
08.11.17- Ban AI Robot Killers and How To Get Banned On Twitter
In the last 10 years, artificial intelligence and robot technology has made leaps and bounds. But experts in these fields have urging governments to s...
1.11.17- A Chat With The Gamerunner of Rumu
Johnny brought a guest in from the PAX convention in Melbourne over the weekend- Ally McLean, the gamerunner behind Rumu- a murder-mystery noire style...
25.10.17- Getting Keen for Melbourne's PAX Convention
Johnny takes us through wha he's looking forward to seeing when he visits the PAX gaming conference in Melbourne:
- Rumu, where you pla...
18.10.17- Flirting on Instagram and Facebook for Jobs
Forget about Tinder, Grindr, Her, Bumble, or whatever other apps you're hitting up for all your dating needs. There's another app that's rapidly becom...
04.10.17 - Elon Musk Pushes for Mars Colonisation and Bumble Introduces Interesting New Feature
Elon Musk wants to send you to Mars by 2022, and could Bumble be the new platform to launch your career?
27.09.17- Australia is Launching a Space Agency
Australia wants a slice of the booming private space industry, and it's launching an agency to capitalise on it.
20.09.17- iPhone X Facial Recognition is Creepy and Autoplay Ads are on Their Way Out
Apple's Sept. 12 unveiling of the iPhone X brought with it the official reveal of Face ID: face-scanning tech that will be used in lieu of Touch ID to...
16.08.17- Facebook TV and Google Eating the Open Internet
Mark Zuckerberg has been preaching video as our future for the last couple years. On Thursday, he's launching the next big step in the company's quest...
09.08.17- Googles Anti-Diversity Rant and Computers Detecting Depression
A software engineer at Google by the name of James Damore, penned a 10 page manifesto against diversity at the company and sent it around to colleague...
29.07.17- Google Kills The Search Bar and Microsoft Kills MS Paint
Google recently launched a personalized news feed on the company's flagship app, and it will soon rollout to browser versions of google.com. The updat...
19.07.17-Aussie Government is Cracking Down on Encrypted Messaging and RIP SoundCloud
The jig is up for encrypted messaging, in the eyes of the Australian government. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Friday morning t...
05.07.17- Medicare Hacked and Tinder Cheats
In a matter of clicks on the darknet, you can purchase the details Australians use for identification and to access health services in the country. As...
28.06.17- Netflix Tax and Augmented Reality on the New iPhone
From July 1 you’ll have to pay an extra 10 per cent on digital goods and services that are imported into Australia. The Netflix tax is a catchier name...
21.06.17- Woebot Can Help You Become A Better Person and Banning Smartphones for Kids
There’s a new generation of bots helping us be better at being humans. It’s an experimental bot called Woebot, developed by psychologists at Stanford...
14.06.17- Johnny Goes to Uluru and We're Not Making Any Money Off Bitcoin
One of Australia’s most famous landmarks is now on Google Maps Street View. Johnny Lieu headed up to Uluru to witness the capturing of the sacred sigh...
07.06.17- An Interview with Keith from Six8
Six8 – A live music community. Uber for live entertainment, Airtasker for artists, AirBNB for venues: Six8 is live music entering the sharing economy....
31.05.17- Massive Push for Aboriginal Flag Emoji and New Zealand Has Entered the Space Race
It’s National Reconciliation Week, and if you’ve been getting involved on social media you might have noticed an absence in the Aboriginal flag emoji...
17.05.17- WannaCry Ransomware and MP3's are Dead... Kinda
A computer virus called Wannacrypt, or WannaCry, infected thousands of computers around the globe on Friday. It’s a piece of self-replicating ransomwa...
10.05.17- No One Wants to be a Facebook Moderator and QR Codes are Cool Again
Facebook has been under fire recently for failing to remove extreme content quick enough — specifically relating to Facebook Live where deaths have be...
03.05.17- Metadata Mayhem and Fyre Festival's Instagram Influencers
Australia had it's first metadata breach when the Australian Federal Police admitted last Friday it had illegally accessed the call records of a journ...
26.04.17 - Wiring up your brain and LinkedIn kicking goals
Tech giants including Elon Musk's Neuralink are trying to connect your brain to computers. LinkedIn is a quiet achiever in the social media world.
19.04.17- Instagram stories killing snapchat and the death of smartwatches
Instagram stories are killing snapchat. Oh and remember how excited we were for smartwatches? Well it seems like they're pretty much doomed.
5.04.17- New Facebook Feeds and Hateful Youtube Ads
Facebook has started testing an entirely new feed with a subset of its users. Users may have woken up over the weekend checked their facebook feed, an...
29.03.17- Government Wants to Look at Your WhatsApp Messages and AirBnB Are Becoming Your Travel Agent
The UK government wants there to be no place for terrorists to hide, including on WhatsApp :: AirBnB are hitting the tour industry with 'Trips' featur...
22.03.17- Youtube Restrictive Labelling Backfires and Snapchat Gets a Sporting Show
Youtube has always been a place to 'Broadcast Yourself' especially in the LGBTQ+ community, but over the weekend some of their content was suddenly de...
15.03.17- Elon Musk is Solving South Australia's Energy Woes and A Vibrator Company Has Been Collecting Your Data
Yesterday, Tesla's Vice President for energy products Lyndon Rive (who is Musk's cousin) said the company could build enough battery storage capacity...
1.03.17- Nokia 3310 Reboot and Facebook Reacts Impacting Your Feed
At the Mobile World Congress, Nokia showed three new Android phones, but the one that got the most attention was the rebooted Nokia 3310, which is ess...
22.02.17- More Uber Drama, No More Youtube Ads
Less than a month since ride-share company Uber faced a heavy wave of backlash that led to the #deleteuber hashtag - since publishing. According to an...
15.02.17- ARIEL BOGEL'S LAST SHOW: Twitter's Anti-Abuse Filter and Snapchat Goes Public
Ariel Bogel says her last goodbyes to Start Up and introduces Mashable Tech Reporter Johnny Lieu, who will be taking the reigns every Wednesday from n...
08.02.17- Facebook Livestream Breaches Copyright & Silicon Valley VS Trump
Two Aus men may be facing legal action after they streamed a highly anticipated boxing match on FB Live. (Danny Green v Anthony Mundine on Foxtel). Bo...
01.02.17- #DeleteUber and Australia is a Lab Rat For App Developers
The hashtag #DeleteUber has been spreading on social media amid protests against Trump's Muslim travel ban. The ride hailing service was accused of "s...
25.01.17- Encrypted Texting App and An All Female Ride Sharing App
Following Trump's expression of interest in data collection, an encrypted texting app has been designed so you can safely message on your smartphone w...
18.01.17- Winkd- A LGBTQI Dating App
Lucy and Ariel spoke with Diana Kalkoul and Neda Robat-Meily, the girls behind Winkd- a new LGBTQI dating app scheduled to launch at Mardi Gras.
14.12.16- Trump meets Silicon Valley and the most popular topics on Facebook and Twitter in 2016
President Elect Donald Trump invites Silicon Valley tech leaders to Trump Tower, what do they talk about? Plus the role of technology in 2016: the inf...
7.12.16- Medibank's VR experience for hospital patients and Amazon Go launches in Seattle
Medibank ventures into the Virtual Reality world with an experience designed to relax hospital patients and allow them to escape their hospital enviro...
30.11.16- Facebook's Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright discussion group and Apple Pay versus Australian Banks
What happened when Gable Tostee started posting in a 'true crime' Facebook group dedicated to the investigation of the death of Warriena Wright? Plus:...