Rohini Vijaygopal The Open University Rita Kottasz Roger Bennett Kingston University Like it or not, driverless cars will start to appear on our roads in the not too distant future. In theory, fully autonomous driverless vehicles will offer huge advantages to people with disabilities. Too often, people with disabilities face
Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa
If you think it’s a clever idea to send out a malware bot as a major recruitment campaign and still barely manage to suck in more than a couple of thousand confused Boomers, you just might be a “youth climate activist”. The “clever” online campaign was the brainchild of
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Like mothers throughout human history, mine would often reprimand me for some childish act of group stupidity by asking, if my friends jumped off a cliff, would I do it too? Of course, I never gave her the honest answer: of course I would. Children are idiots and born followers.
It’s not just rugby that Australia has challenges in. In a stunning turn of events last night, New Zealand’s national esports team, The E Blacks, defeated Team Australia in the Dota2 Women’s qualifier. The win secures them a coveted spot at the Global Esports Games in Riyadh
Another day, another hilarious story of another EV failure. I really have to thank Elon Musk and the Climate Cult: if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have an endless supply of these stories to mock. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Whether the cheap laughs
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
As C S Lewis said, the worst inquisitors are those who torment us for our own good. The worst liars, censors and oppressors are those who swear that they are censoring us to protect. Who lie and oppress in the name of “truth” and “democracy”. This week, a Senate Judiciary
Max Abrahms ronpaulinstitute.org What happened to Elon Musk this past week showcases how completely unhinged and dangerous US policy to Ukraine has become. The condemnation began when the Washington Post published excerpts from a new biography on Musk revealing that he turned down a Ukrainian request to help launch
Hmmm, let’s see: child slave labour and toxic pollution, adding to the massive strain on already-stressed power grids, massive weight threatening the integrity of car parks, the same weight causing them to rip through tyres and make even more pollution, the toxic nightmare of disposing of batteries, guzzling taxpayer’
Erica Mealy University of the Sunshine Coast Late last week, Google announced something called the Privacy Sandbox has been rolled out to a “majority” of Chrome users, and will reach 100% of users in the coming months. But what is it, exactly? The new suite of features represents a fundamental
Dulani Jayasuriya Jacky Liu University of Auckland Ryan Elmore University of Denver theconversation.com On the eve of the Rugby World Cup kicking off, there have already been whispers of teams spying on each other. Inevitable gamesmanship, perhaps, but there’s no doubt cheating in sport is a problem authorities
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Dietram A. Scheufele Dominique Brossard Todd Newman University of Wisconsin-Madison theconversation.com Are democratic societies ready for a future in which AI algorithmically assigns limited supplies of respirators or hospital beds during pandemics? Or one in which AI fuels an arms race between disinformation creation and detection? Or sways court
Niven Winchester Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com Despite New Zealand’s record loss to South Africa in August, All Blacks fans can take heart from statistical modelling that has them as favourites to win the 2023 Rugby World Cup (RWC). According to Rugby Vision, a well-tested algorithm I developed
