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The future of transport: how local people are helping to design new metro trains
Feb 26, 2021 14:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Tyne and Wear Metro train fleet has served the UKs busiest light rail network outside London for over 40 years. Now, these trains are at the end of their working life and people across the region have been...
Feb 26, 2021 14:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The federal governments News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, which passed the Senate today, makes strong points about the need to regulate misinformation. In response, Google, Facebook, Microsoft,...
Fake news was a thing long before Donald Trump — just ask the ancient Greeks
Feb 26, 2021 14:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The idea of news is a pretty new thing. So is the concept of fake news, as in false or misleading information presented as news. Accordingly, we dont expect to understand the term outside of our own epoch. Most people...
Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised
Feb 20, 2021 12:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Its well documented by many scholars that psychological warfare took place for a long time as part of the colonial conquest. The colonialists laboured to ensure that black peoples minds were colonised. And to this end,...
Can Fox News survive without Trump in the White House?
Feb 20, 2021 12:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Sadly, history has largely forgotten the Rector Thomas Beverley. In 1695, he wrote a book predicting the world would end in 1697. In 1698 he wrote another book, complaining the world had ended but no-one had noticed. If he...
Why Google is now funnelling millions into media outlets, as Facebook pulls news for Australia
Feb 20, 2021 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Over the past few days, Google has been inking multimillion-dollar deals to pay media companies for news content that will appear on Google News Showcase. Rupert Murdochs News Corp is the latest beneficiary of a...
What the rise of telemedicine means for Canada’s legal system
Feb 20, 2021 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
The current pandemic is a tremendous boost for telemedicine, as many health-care professionals are strongly encouraged to offer online consultations or have no choice but to do so. But even before the pandemic, there was...
In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized