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Apple announced its new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus and Watch Series 2 today at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. iPhone 7 and 7 Plus What the event confirmed was that the leaks about the phone…
Has education spending gone up while student achievement has stalled?
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Sue Thomson, Australian Council for Educational Research and Peter Goss, Grattan Institute
The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement. Is that true?
An exploded Samsung Galaxy Note 7
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Samsung’s release of its latest phone, the Galaxy Note 7 has turned into a financial and PR disaster with the halting of sales of the phone and recall of millions of phones that have been sold so far…
L’« autre » Steve, co-fondateur d'Apple.
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China’s leaders like to put on a good show. Whether it’s the Olympics or the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting, not losing face is paramount. Every country likes to put its best diplomatic foot…
Overfishing can teach us valuable lessons about ecosystem resilience.
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Large-scale natural experiments such as oil spills, tsunamis and climate change are things you wouldn’t want to do on purpose. But that doesn’t mean they’re not scientifically useful experiments too.
One of the first and most important choices parents and caregivers make after a child’s diagnosis of autism is which therapy will be most suitable for their son or daughter. Unfortunately, this choice…
Japan astounded the world with its economic performance for decades.
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One thing became dramatically apparent in the economic sphere following the Cold War: capitalism was ubiquitous, but it looked very different in Japan, Germany, the US and China.
The Spy Files, released by WikiLeaks, revealed the scale of surveillance going on around the world.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners’ Cyber War program, aired tonight, highlighted the personal, commercial and national threats posed by hackers and a general preparedness on all things…
Football isn’t what it used to be. In Australia, they don’t even know what football is actually called (it’s not soccer). But what’s even stranger is football has become very popular in countries that…
The ‘other’ Steve who co-founded Apple Computer.
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David Glance sits down with Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple 1 computer, Steve Wozniak, to talk about his life, his thoughts on Apple then and now and how technology is changing the world.
With more birth abnormalities linked to Zika, effects of the virus may be more sinister than we thought.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps so, but let me add another 800 or so on the image above, which has cut through the media deluge like no other of late. The fact that we know the name…
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has denied four of Australia’s banks an interim authorisation to act collectively against Apple and other third party wallet providers (Samsung…
There are lots of theories about why babies cry excessively, but many of the over-the-counter remedies are ineffective.
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The Australian online census, which failed so spectacularly last week has still not succeeded in having enough people complete the process for it to be rescued from irrelevance. Fewer than half of Australia’s…
Monash University and the University of Sydney are the two newcomers to the list.
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Despite being told that the site is now operational, the ABS census site is still not accessible for many. The frustration felt by the public over the ABS’s failed census night has been exacerbated by…