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Computer science culture often means anybody’s data is fair game to feed the AI algorithm – but artists are fighting back
Daniel Angus receives funding from the Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects DP200100519 ‘Using machine ...
The challenges African election bodies face go beyond ‘democratic backsliding’ – analysis
Stakeholders, whether they be policymakers, political parties, civil society or the media, must proactively pursue electoral ...
South Africans are abandoning smallholder farming – history and policy can help explain why
The South African government has failed to reverse the decline in smallholder farming that began during apartheid. A ...
Columbia University protests look increasingly like those in 1968 as police storm campuses nationwide
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there ...
How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea
Secular understandings of the word, by contrast, rarely include this redeeming element. An apocalypse is more commonly ...
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200: Revolutionary work of art has spawned two centuries of joy, goodwill and propaganda
Symphony No. 9, sometimes referred to as the Choral Symphony, was the capstone to Beethoven’s extraordinary career. In the ...
Muitos jornalistas e trabalhadores humanitários estão sendo mortos em Gaza, apesar das regras que deveriam mantê-los seguros
O desconflito deve manter os não-combatentes em segurança. Mas não está funcionando em Gaza, nem para os trabalhadores ...
Mitos da educação: Comparar percentuais de PIB para afirmar que Brasil investe demais em ensino público é um erro
Primeiro artigo de série sobre o assunto analisa o uso equivocado do PIB como régua para comparar graus de investimento no ...
Alexis Wright becomes the first to win the Stella Prize twice, with her ‘hyper real’ novel of Aboriginal sovereignty and survival
Is Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy the great Australian novel? Beejay Silcox, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel that ...
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
Humans tend to suffer from a negativity bias – we notice and dwell more readily on negative experiences than positive ones.
The UK has become the world’s fourth largest exporter, but can it maintain this momentum?
UK business is beaming with pride with the recent news of the country’s emergence as the fourth largest exporter in the world ...