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Nigeria’s election was nearly derailed by technology - but biometric devices weren’t the problem
An election official uses the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System to take a picture of a voter during Nigeria’s presidential election.…
Why the promised fourth industrial revolution hasn’t happened yet
shutterstock. Richard Markoff, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Ralf Seifert, International Institute for Management Development (IMD) It’s nearly…
Online learning platforms aren’t enough – lecturers need the right technical skills
Universities must do more than just offer online learning: they must make sure lecturers know how to adapt to the…
Seychelles is becoming overwhelmed by marine plastic – we now know where it comes from
A green turtle on Aldabra entangled in abandoned fishing gear. Rich Baxter, CC BY-NC-ND Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Oxford and…
500-year-old horn container discovered in South Africa sheds light on pre-colonial Khoisan medicines
Both the Khoi and the San believed in a mythical animal, resembling a cow, whose horns were thought to have…
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Major publishers are banning ChatGPT from being listed as an academic author. What’s the big deal?
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Forget spy balloons, the world of surveillance has tried everything from schoolchildren to trained cats
AR/BNPS Ebony Nilsson, Australian Catholic University The Chinese “spy balloon” shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly…
