Chau Chak Wing Museum is Australia’s first to offer visitors colour-vision-enhancing glasses. So what happens when one man tries them on? Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast There are a few everyday situations that 24-year-old Mason Suljic struggles in. He can’t always read graphs, charts or maps very well. …
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A new wave of enthusiasts are eschewing the multi-megapixel convenience of digital photography in favour of an older, slower, ‘magical’ tech Indi Shields first discovered film in the drawer of her childhood home. “The first film camera I picked up was my great grandfather’s,” she says. “It felt so special to hold it and use …
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A lot of investors don’t understand their liability, warn tax agents, while others call for the complicated Australian system to be overhauled As tax time approaches in Australia, cryptocurrency investors have been warned to begin working out what they owe. Some lessons can be drawn from the recent US tax season, where some enthusiasts found …
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US farmers’ struggles for the right to fix their own, now highly computer-controlled equipment, have implications for us all It was one of the few pieces of cheery news to emerge from the war in Ukraine. Russian looters, no doubt with the assistance of Russian troops, stole 27 pieces of John Deere farm equipment, worth …
Plummeting prices and lost life savings confirmed for many that the blockchain dream was too good to be true – and it may now struggle to hit past highs Even if you don’t live and breathe cryptocurrency, you’ve probably noticed some turmoil in the sector. Eye-catching headlines about missing apes and collapsing stablecoins are indicative …
The 21st century will be make or break for humanity, says Oxford University transhumanist Elise Bohan. If we get it right, she thinks we might find something better Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Ageing cured. Death conquered. Work ended. The human brain reverse-engineered by AI. Babies born outside …
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The robotic electric cabs will be restricted to less congested times and places until regulators can assess its safety California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train …
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US regulators investigating hundreds of reports that self-driving models 3 and Y have braked on highways More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to US safety regulators that cars operating on the automaker’s partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the number …
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Email to executives also calls for hiring freeze at electric car maker, which has 100,000 staff worldwide Elon Musk is considering a hiring freeze and job cuts of up to 10% of staff at Tesla because he has a “super bad feeling” about the state of the economy, according to an internal email seen by …
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The return of the hit zombie sequel topped the bill during online showcase, which also featured a new Final Fantasy 16 trailer The long-awaited remake of acclaimed zombie adventure Resident Evil 4 was the highlight of Sony’s State of Play online showcase on Thursday evening. The 2005 original marked a radical change in direction for …
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