Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
Oct 08, 2017 10:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
A commitment to share the biometric data of most Australians including your driving licence photo agreed at Thursdays Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting will result in a further erosion of our...
Why is Melanie Joly ignoring the crisis in Canadian journalism?
Oct 08, 2017 03:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Although we now live in a vast internet landscape with immense amounts of content, the diversity and quality of the news media we consume continues to be a concern.. Large sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google should...
'Blade Runner''s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Oct 08, 2017 03:08 am UTC| Insights & Views
Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad like, really mad at their makers? Can people learn to love machines? These are a few of the questions raised by Ridley Scotts...
Bare cupboards and nobody to help buy food: the forgotten welfare gap in older age
Oct 08, 2017 03:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Welfare reform and austerity in the UK has led to reductions in public spending on services that support older people. Age UK has highlighted how nearly one million older people have unmet social care needs. This is of...
Why people stay in disaster-prone cities
Oct 08, 2017 02:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 2017 hurricane season has brought unprecedented destruction to the Caribbean and southern United States. As millions of people around the world have watched these events unfold from afar, no doubt some have found...
How Blade Runner 2049 prepares us to welcome robots for real
Oct 08, 2017 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Entertainment
The idea of dangerous, inhumane artificial intelligence taking over the world is familiar to many of us, thanks to cautionary tales such as the Matrix and Terminator franchises. But what about the more sympathetic...
Underpaid, overworked and drowning in debt: you wonder why young people are voting again?
Oct 08, 2017 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 2017 general election was highly unusual as far as the youth vote was concerned. The Labour party won 65% the lions share of the youth vote. The nearest comparisons are with 1964 and 1997. In both those years, Labour...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects