Improving patient care by bridging the divide between doctors and data scientists
May 26, 2016 02:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
While wonderful new medical discoveries and innovations are in the news every day, doctors struggle daily with using information and techniques available right now while carefully adopting new concepts and treatments. As a...
On the hunt for Facebook's army of fakes
May 26, 2016 02:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Ever wonder why so many people like certain Facebook pages, no matter how boring or badly updated they are? They could well be the subject of like farming, the process of artificially inflating the number of Facebook page...
Which Facebook 'friends' can help you land a job?
May 26, 2016 02:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Life
More than half of jobs are found with the help of a social tie, whether a friend, relative or distant acquaintance. For example, a friend may tell you about a job opening at her firm or a parent may offer you an internship...
How to stop your phone from being hacked
May 24, 2016 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
If youve ever forgotten your phone or left it at home for the day, you will have realised just how much you use it. On average, we check our mobile phones about 110 times a day. Using them for just about everything, from...
A guide to using drones to study wildlife: first, do no harm
May 24, 2016 00:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Nature
Technological advances have provided many benefits for environmental research. Sensors on southern elephant seals have been used to map the Southern Ocean, while tracking devices have given us a new view of mass animal...
Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency
May 23, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Of the millions of Twitter users, there are about 98% who want to hide their location. So they switch off the function that publicly displays the location of any tweet. There could be many reasons why people dont want...
Myer and eBay's virtual reality shopping turns looking into seeing
May 23, 2016 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Department store Myer and online shopping giant eBay have teamed up to offer something different to consumers in a bold bid to change the way we shop, interact with, research and purchase products. Their creation of a...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects