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
“Time crystals” sounds like some sort of wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey Dr Who nonsense. But they just might be very real – and very useful. They won’t fire up a sonic screwdriver, but they could potentially be used in quantum computers. Normal crystals might be termed “space crystals”: that is, they repeat their
Clint Eastwood’s 1982 thriller, Firefox, is little remembered these days except as the namesake of the best web browser. The titular plot device of the movie was a super-advanced Soviet jet fighter, capable of flying at Mach 6 and controlled by thought. Which leads to an unintentionally amusing sequence
Victoria Manning Associate Professor, Eastern Health Clinical School Antonio Verdejo-Garcia Professor (Research), Turner Institute For the Brain and Mental Health Dan Lubman Professor, Addiction Studies and Services; Director, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre monash.edu When we drink frequently, alcohol cues such as places, sights, smells, and social situations
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
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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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
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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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
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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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
