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WA government launches $10 million investment fund as bureaucrats embrace AI

The fund will be used attract industry and university partnership opportunities to pilot and scale initiatives that offer productivity or service delivery benefits. WA science and innovation minister Stephen Dawson said it will be supported by a buying mechanism...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team deciding how it votes at 9,000 annual shareholder...

It is a Tuesday morning in Oslo, and a small team inside Norges Bank Investment Management is working through proxy ballots for forty-odd companies before lunch. A Japanese chemicals firm’s succession plan. A Brazilian director slate. A Texas oil...

Britain just convicted four protesters as terrorists without a terrorism trial

In a Bristol courtroom this month, a judge reached for a sentencing tool that had never before been applied to protest-related criminal damage in British legal history. Four Palestine Action activists, already convicted only of damaging Israeli-made military drones...

People who keep every birthday card, every postcard, and every note their kids ever wrote aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re building physical evidence that they...

A 2019 study tracking 520 people in the Netherlands over six years found that participants high in nostalgia kept larger close social networks as they aged, while those low in nostalgia watched theirs shrink. The effect ran in one...

The Pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a bubble that briefly reaches 4,700°C — nearly the surface temperature of the sun...

When marine acousticians first lowered hydrophones into tropical reefs in the early twentieth century, they reported back a sound like fat sizzling in a pan, a continuous crackle that drowned out almost everything else. Submariners during the Second World...

Vancouver AI Startup Orchid Brings The World Cup To Your Messages

As the FIFA World Cup kicks off across North America, a Vancouver-based AI startup is using the tournament to show what a text-first personal assistant can do. Orchid has launched a free World Cup experience that lets fans receive live...

Most people don’t realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still...

For decades, the dominant warning about midlife went something like this: the empty nest will hit when the last child leaves, you will cry for a week, and then you will rediscover yourself through pottery classes and weekend trips....

On October 29, 1969, a UCLA student named Charley Kline tried to send the word ‘LOGIN’ over ARPANET to Stanford, and the system crashed...

At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, a UCLA graduate student named Charley Kline put on a telephone headset, sat down at a computer terminal in Boelter Hall, and began typing the word that would open the door...

The Wollemi pine was known only from ancient fossils until a park ranger rappelled into a canyon outside Sydney in 1994 and found a...

Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a state secret, withheld from maps and guarded by a small circle of Australian rangers who reach the site by helicopter, in sterilised boots, on...

ShinyHunters breached more than 100 organisations through a PeopleSoft flaw before Oracle issued an advisory, and the reason two-thirds were universities says everything about...

The story of the latest ShinyHunters campaign is not really about a bug in Oracle PeopleSoft. It is about what happens when a single piece of enterprise software runs the back office of thousands of institutions, and a single...
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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