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A New Era of Nuclear Power Awaits

A New Era of Nuclear Power Awaits

A lot of the jokes in the Back to the Future movies are still funny, but these days most often in retrospect. The conceit of flying cars and weather control in 2015 tickles modern audiences because of their sheer anachronism. But perhaps the device most dated in Back to the

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Tech Talk: A Few of My Favourite Things #2.
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Tech Talk: A Few of My Favourite Things #2.

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

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Five Things to Know about Making Self-Driving Cars Safe

Five Things to Know about Making Self-Driving Cars Safe

Jonathan O’Callaghan Horizon articles aihub.org On 18 September, the European Commission published an independent expert report that looks at some of the outstanding safety and ethical issues around connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). We spoke to three experts involved in the report about what steps they think still

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3d-Printed Prosthetic Limbs

3d-Printed Prosthetic Limbs

lens.monash.edu/@monash-life Making a prosthetic can cost thousands of dollars, but social entrepreneur Mat Bowtell is using 3D printing to make it affordable. When Mat Bowtell was retrenched from his job at Toyota in 2017, the father of two decided to use his redundancy payout, and his skills

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Tech Talk: Linux – My Personal Journey
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Tech Talk: Linux – My Personal Journey

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

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Tech Talk: Google Goodies #2
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Tech Talk: Google Goodies #2

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

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Tech Talk: Google Goodies
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Tech Talk: Google Goodies

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

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Tech Talk: The BFD and Disqus
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Tech Talk: The BFD and Disqus

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

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Another Fine Lefty Conspiracy Theory Shot Down by Facts

Another Fine Lefty Conspiracy Theory Shot Down by Facts

I’m almost at the end of my tether with the Amazon Prime series The Boys. What started out as a witty commentary on the superhero genre is growing more frustratingly woke by the week. To be sure, its sympathies were always obvious, but the second series in particular has

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Tech Talk: A Few of My Favourite Things #1
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Tech Talk: A Few of My Favourite Things #1

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

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Tech Talk: Open Source Software
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Tech Talk: Open Source Software

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

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