How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago
Lars Poyansky/Shutterstock Forced contraception in exchange for aid is the solution. The problem is that there are too many of...
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Can Facebook use AI to fight online abuse?
It can be complicated to teach a computer to detect harassment and threats. Palto/Shutterstock.comFacebook has released statistics on abusive behavior...
Amazon’s sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
New technology, old flaws. Jirsak/ ShutterstockAmazon decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it...
What Elon Musk’s US$3 billion Twitter deal means for him – and for social media
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is now Twitter’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9.2% stake in the social media...
Want your kids to learn another language? Teach them code
Coding: it's just another language to learn at school. Flickrabg_colegio, CC BYAmong Malcolm Turnbull’s first words as the newly elected...
Abuses at South Africa’s spy agency show poor governance. There are solutions
The judicial inquiry into grand corruption heard shocking details of the abuse of power at South Africa's preeminent spy agency....
Australians accept government surveillance, for now
New legislation allows Australian government agencies to access encrypted WhatsApp messages. from www.shutterstock.comAustralians tend to accept government surveillance, particularly if...
Three reasons why COVID-19 data in Indonesia are unreliable and how to fix them
A worker cleans a bed in a hospital in Surabaya, East Java ANTARA FOTO/Moch Asim/aww.More than a year into the...
Post Office scandal reveals a hidden world of outsourced IT the government trusts but does not understand
shawnwil23/ShutterstockThe convictions of 39 Post Office workers were quashed on April 23 after the UK’s court of appeal heard that...
Artificial intelligence must not be allowed to replace the imperfection of human empathy
At the heart of the development of AI appears to be a search for perfection. And it could be just...
