Optus says the unprecedented outage last week was caused by a ‘routine software upgrade’. An expert explains why this points to more serious problems with the network.
Social entrepreneurs play an important role in alleviating poverty.
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Narcissists, psychopaths and Machiavellians, oh my. These antagonistic personality types can make life hard for the people around them. Here are five tips for how to deal with them at work.
Building relationships with colleagues outside of work is important for career development.
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By surveying over 100 people in academic medicine, a researcher found that women are consistently excluded from important networking activities like watching sports, drinking at bars and playing golf.
A collapsed bridge in Atlanta in 2017 backed up traffic for a month.
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As President Biden signs the bipartisan infrastructure bill, it’s important to determine which road, freight and information networks are the most vital to protect.
Typical day in low-income communities in the Strand, Western Cape, South Africa.
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The network collectively applied ingenuity to provide essential care and support to vulnerable people.
Volunteering to pitch in during Breast Cancer Awareness Week may have also helped these Bethune-Cookman University students.
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The extent to which mobile phones can support and sustain real improvement in young lives is depressingly finite unless significant interventions occur.
Data shows gender disparities in networking.
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The low share of women revealed in this data is problematic for two reasons: a lack of diversity, and what it shows about women’s participation in the social network of informal collaboration.
How fast is that video really coming in?
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How do internet companies decide which network traffic to slow down and which to charge against users’ data plans? And what can we learn about net neutrality from the answers?
In an emergency, responders’ telecommunications could get delayed by overloaded networks.
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What do these new places tell us about the transformations of our professional, social and political world? And how to turn them into springboards for territorial development?
Schools can offer their pupils valuable support systems even if they’re short on resources.
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When planning major infrastructure investments, it’s important to know which road, freight and information networks are most important – and which proposals might make things worse, not better.