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| UpdatedA photo of a shirt emblazoned with the words "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required" worn by a man at a Donald Trump rally over the weekend goes viral.
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| UpdatedDespite the strides women have made to break the "glass ceiling", experts say recent media coverage of "unladylike" behaviour at the Melbourne Cup and "unfashionable cleavage" highlights how society is failing to kill off sexism.
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| UpdatedIf Australian lifestyle and culture was an emoji set, what would it look like?
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| UpdatedFinding good coffee is a worthy hunt for many parents but what about a treat for the kids? Simon Leong is on a mission to find the best babyccinos in the world, starting with those in Sydney.
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| UpdatedThousands of people are using Facebook's location tagging feature to "check in" at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near the site of an embattled oil pipeline in a bid to confuse police, who supporters believe are using it to track protesters.
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| UpdatedThe world's biggest social media platform will allow more content on its platform that it would have earlier removed because it violated its standards, a senior executive says.
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| UpdatedTake a look back at some of the most memorable viral Vines of the platform's three years, as Twitter announces it is killing off the video sharing app.
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| UpdatedTwitter, which has a global audience of more than 300 million people, is killing off its video sharing app Vine, as the social media giant faces a drop in both stock prices and users.
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Police charge a Sydney man for the alleged rape of a woman in Kings Cross, whom he met — using the pseudonym 'The Wolf' — on a specialist adult social networking site.
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| UpdatedAn app that helps people quit alcohol, and fish facial recognition technology, are among the recipients of Google's latest round of Australian innovation grants.
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A woman who says she has been stalked and hacked online wants more support for victims of similar crimes.
Topics: internet-culture, crime, social-media, newcastle-2300
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Falling iPhone sales take a bite out of Apple's earnings and revenue with earnings down by nearly a third in Greater China, which is seen as Apple's big growth market.
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The Australian Video Rental Retailers Association (AVRRA) has folded, reflecting the changing way people are engaging with technology and the internet is the clear winner over the local video shop.
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| UpdatedFrom the tops of cranes to the innards of derelict buildings, no landmark is off limits for Australia's urban explorers.
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| UpdatedSocial media goes abuzz after a video is posted of a koala with a joey walking along the main street of McLaren Flat, seemingly unfussed by the presence of humans.
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From a social media post that cracked open a decades-old abuse scandal in the UK and Australia, through to tracking asylum seekers, social media can be vital in breaking investigative news stories.
Topics: journalism, social-media, immigration, refugees, internet-culture, information-and-communication, community-and-society, broadcasting, australia, united-kingdom, indonesia
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Instragram's latest tool enables concerned users to anonymously report people they follow who show signs of self-harming, and suggests resources of support for those suspected of experiencing mental illness.
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On this episode; Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump roast each other over dinner; using fantasy to survive the horrors of war; and a skate-boarding bull terrier amasses a global following.
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