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Comcast-owned media and entertainment company NBCUniversal has set in train a practice that could well mark an end to the hiatus between the release of a film in theatres and on digital media, with an announcement overnight that it would make its films available to home users on the same day as theatrical releases.

Internet users in the US have had privacy protections voted in by the Obama administration stripped away, with the House voting 215-205 to pass the measure.

All major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States experienced outages of up to 45 minutes beginning at 11am local time on Tuesday (1am AEDT Wednesday), according to information from the outage monitoring site, DownDetector.