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Regulation and oversight could be the saviour or the death of a Bitcoin and others.
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What will the future of film look like?
This picture of a reconstruction of a hominin skull is one of a variety of multimedia that can be experienced in the Origins Virtual Reality experience.
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Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
Michael Shannon and Michael Stuhlbarg in the film “The Shape of Water.”
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This year’s Toronto International Film Festival is a further example of how science, technology, engineering and math illuminate movies – and, in the process, our minds.
Apple seeks out the high ground.
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The tech giant has doubled down on its strategy of exclusivity, but does it risk weakening its position in emerging markets?
Women are less likely to be published in scientific journals.
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Women can often draw attention to dimensions of thinking that their male perspective may miss. But this will only work if they are in positions that allow them to lead and drive the research agenda.
Lean on me for a better night’s sleep.
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Studies suggest that, even when we go to bed alone, the company we keep by day may determine how well we sleep at night.
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Anxieties about hoodlums in cars was just another expression of an age-old fear of change.
There’s much more to mathematics than computation, and that’s where more contemporary technologies can improve primary mathematics.
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Many parents are demanding less technology use in the classroom due to the amount of screen time children get at home. This story explores whether maths education and technology go hand in hand.
Disruptive technology is starting to transform our cities, societies and lives.
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As disruptive technology increasingly enters our lives, it demands that we rethink and reorganize all aspects of work, life, and society.
Copenhagen is making a great leap forward into the future.
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Three key things that must not be ignored.
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Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
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Despite claims of scientific differences, the real reason behind the lack of women in computing is cultural, not biological.
Hang on mum, I’m just catching up on The Conversation.
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Technology enables many ways of interacting. We need to be more specific and scientific.
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The so-called ‘Mamils’ are looking for good mental health – not a chance to relive their youth.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard died of complications from ALS on July 27, 2017, at his home in Kentucky.
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To the recently deceased playwright, the nation’s greatest tragedy was its move from an agricultural society to an urban, industrial one.
Technology has provided both sex workers and their clients greater mobility and anonymity, opening sex work up to new markets.
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The car, the phone and the internet have changed the way the sex work industry operates, but debates about regulation have not advanced with new technologies.
Those who got advice from the online calculator in the study showed a small, but statistically significant, increase in trust towards robo-advice.
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Robo-advice might prove most useful to those who need it the most, making them feel more competent and in control.
Distant Earth.
The quest for technology to be the salvation of humankind neglects to consider some darker truths that lead to dystopia.
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It hasn’t been a good round of earnings for Silicon Valley’s big names.