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How culture informs people’s emotional reaction to music – podcast
The Conversation Weekly podcast is taking a short break this week. In the meantime, we’re bringing you an extended version of one our favourite recent interviews.In this episode, we speak to a musicologist who’s been finding out how…
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The big idea: should we embrace a cashless society?
How do you like to pay? Do you prefer to tap, wave, insert, single-click or double-click – or are you a hold out for hard cash? If it’s the latter, you’re fast becoming the exception.Between our growing enthusiasm for online shopping, the…
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Will mRNA Technology Companies Spawn Innovation Ecosystems?
Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of…
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5 biggest educational technology trends in near future
In the past, various trends in the education sector have been deployed with varying degrees of success, but the trends that the previous couple of years brought in the sector have completely changed the sector's dynamics and are surely here…
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‘City Press is still at forefront of conscientising society’ – Hotstix | Citypress
Sipho Hotstix Mabuse talks about his relationship with City Press. Photo: Denvor de Wee/Foto24
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The French culture war over Islam shows no sign of abating
With another runoff between Macron and Le Pen looming, France’s obsession with Islam continues to disenfranchise voters and undermine the true separation of church and state.Emmanuel Macron may have won the first round of France’s…
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China further limits access to unauthorized foreign games – TechCrunch
For years, China has left a loophole open for people to access unauthorized video games, but it’s ready to close it.
Many foreign titles lack a Chinese publishing partner like Tencent to help them obtain the…
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Embracing culture change on the path to digital transformation
We did that by building a series of tech guilds. We built a cloud guild, a data guild, an insourcing framework. We built our NAB Engineering Foundation and with a goal of building a culture of innovation of cloud, of agile, and being able…
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Mandy to I Blame Society: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Pick of the weekMandyNicolas Cage in Mandy. Photograph: XYZ Films/AllstarThis bizarre 2018 film is another staging post in the cult renaissance of Nicolas Cage – one that will probably reach its apogee this Friday with the release of The…
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XR scientists glue hands to business department in London climate protest
Twenty-five scientists have pasted pages of scientific papers to the windows of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and glued their hands to the glass to highlight the climate science they said the government was…
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