A Colorado Springs officer with a body-worn camera. There is growing support to introduce the technology in South Africa.
Reuters/Rick Wilking
Police brutality is an ongoing problem in South Africa. Police-worn body cameras may help reduce such incidents by improving accountability. They may also contribute to the safety of officers.
Neutrinos, we’re looking for you! Japan’s Super-Kamiokande detector.
Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo
The Nobel Prize-winning research on neutrinos is expected to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Halls, dormitories, or staying at home with the parents: the university experience is different all over the world.
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With advances in technology and changes in the demographics of people attending university, the campus experience is changing.
Digitally stressed?
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Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
Broadband is one of the technologies that will feature heavily in Australia’s future.
A new report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies paints a picture of Australia’s technological future.
Reports suggest President Xi will meet with US tech leaders this week. Will that overshadow his meeting with President Obama?
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While the timing of the planned forum is not ideal, it continues a long tradition of Chinese leaders engaging with US tech leaders and may prove beneficial to overall relations.
It’s a visual metaphor…
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Intellectual property laws, 19th-century legislation struggling for relevance in the 21st century, are well overdue for reform.
University of Cape Town scientists work in the Drug Discovery and Development Centre. More needs to be done to keep Africa’s scientists on home ground.
Epa/Nic Bothma
If the continent is to grasp the science and technology revolution, then governments should take the lead in both policy formulation and implementation.
Bastiat would understand would Uber is going through in Paris.
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The economist Frédéric Bastiat didn’t experience the “sharing economy,” but he knew the ludicrousness of wailing against a “foreign technology.”
Bridging the gap. How to keep up with Dublin.
Alessandro Grussu
Dublin has managed to keep the money rolling in while others struggle, so what are the lessons to learn for its neighbours and rivals?
What will make students have faith in their professors?
Jeremy Wilburn
Professors help students question their beliefs and assumptions. How should they build the trust?
All smiles? Not so much.
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Technology can work for us, or against us. Sometimes both at the same time.
I need it NOW!
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Footage of children throwing tantrums when their tablet is taken away can be unsettling. But the fact is technology can be good for their development, if they engage with it positively.
There is beauty in mathematical ideas and proofs.
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Poetry is at the heart of technology. Did not Pythagoras find the connections between beautiful music and mathematics?
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A new report on the future of humanity explains what we really need to be worrying about over the next 35 years.
It’s a shame the adverts aren’t displaying a real product. Bahio would’ve won over a mesmerised customer.
Clear Channel
M&C Saatchi’s new development signifies the dawn of a new age of real-time responsive advertising
Maylasia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014.
Laurent Errera
The collective wisdom of expert crowds could provide the answer to the Malaysia Airlines mystery.
Started with high democratic ideals, how does the U.S. Patent Office work for the 21st century?
StreetsofWashington
Founded in 1790, the Patent Office aimed to put innovation and entrepreneurship within reach of every citizen. Now, 10 million patents later, critics say an out-of-touch system is doing the opposite.
Holograms offer the promise of transforming electronic modes of teaching.
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Holograms could make science and technology accessible as part of a new way of teaching.
Bedding in. Have we set a dangerous new precedent for work/life balance?
Joselito Tagarao
When workers are living their lives online, it’s hard to see the joins between home and office. So how can employers answer the growing desire to seprate the seemingly inseparable?