Jun 23, 2020 10:33 am UTC| Technology
It is safe to say that many gamer hearts were a little broken when the PlayStation 5 event took place and Rockstar Games only announced an update to the current game for the next-generation console. It has hardly stopped...
Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages
Jun 21, 2020 11:42 am UTC| Technology
Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms to organise everything...
Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting children
Jun 21, 2020 11:41 am UTC| Technology
In Australia and around the world, junk food companies are targeting children on social media. In our new study, we found most major social media platforms have restrictions on the advertising of tobacco, alcohol and...
As libraries go digital, paper books still have a lot to offer us
Jun 21, 2020 11:40 am UTC| Technology
In Simon Weckerts Google Maps Hacks, a performance art work, a man pulls a little red wagon filled with 99 cell phones through Berlin. Drawing on the nostalgia of the Radio Flyer wagons and globes of my childhood, the...
Jun 21, 2020 11:36 am UTC| Technology
In 2016, the mobile game Pokémon Go sent hundreds of millions of players wandering the streets in search of virtual monsters. In the process it helped popularise augmented reality (AR) technology, which overlays...
Algorithms are designing better buildings
Jun 21, 2020 03:39 am UTC| Technology
When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Thanks to computer-aided...
Facebook vs news: Australia wants to level the playing field, Facebook politely disagrees
Jun 21, 2020 03:35 am UTC| Technology
The Australian government is setting out to develop a bargaining code to address power imbalances between news media publishers and digital platforms such as Facebook and Google. The creation of this code was recommended...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects