Nov 11, 2018 07:31 am UTC| Technology
Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of those rare video games that affect the real world in strange ways and not always in a positive manner. For example, it would seem that the hatred for certain characters in the title has led...
Nov 09, 2018 05:10 am UTC| Technology
Reviews for the MacBook Air 2018 are coming in and most critics are painting a rosy picture for Apple. However, a running theme among most of the reviews covering the gadget seems to agree that the upgrade was more out of...
Experiments with optical tweezers race to test the laws of quantum mechanics
Nov 08, 2018 16:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
One might think that the optical tweezer a focused laser beam that can trap small particles is old hat by now. After all, the tweezer was invented by Arthur Ashkin in 1970. And he received the Nobel Prize for it this...
Who wins and who loses when platforms like Airbnb disrupt housing? And how do you regulate it?
Nov 08, 2018 16:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Short-term letting platforms like Airbnb are changing property owners and investors views and behaviour in the Sydney and Melbourne rental markets. These changes are directly affecting housing availability in localised...
The argument from cyberspace for eliminating nuclear weapons
Nov 08, 2018 16:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
At the height of the Cold War in 1982, American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton argued that the central existential fact of the nuclear age is vulnerability. That warning predated the proliferation of computers into almost...
'Red Dead Redemption 2' Latest News & Update: Anti-Feminists Celebrate Ability to Hurt Women in Game
Nov 08, 2018 05:58 am UTC| Technology
Red Dead Redemption 2 basically allows players to become outlaws in the final days of the cowboys, so its only natural that there would be those who commit distasteful atrocities in the game. However, YouTube recently...
Nov 08, 2018 05:58 am UTC| Technology
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has just confirmed the criticism that has been leveled at the franchise for many years now, which depicts the developers of having run out of ideas. In the latest change to the games Blackout...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects