How innovation can help companies in a turbulent global economy
Mar 01, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
In their book Business Model Generation, authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur explore the power of asking what if questions. This is illustrated by the example of furniture giant IKEA. In 1960 it asked: What...
Fraudsters change tactics as a crackdown cuts some losses due to online scams
Mar 01, 2016 15:43 pm UTC| Law Technology
The amount of financial loss from online fraud suffered by people in Western Australia has almost halved, dropping from A$16.8 million in 2014 to A$9.8 million for 2015, according to a statement this January from the...
How JK Rowling uses the social web to keep the magic of Harry Potter alive
Feb 29, 2016 17:38 pm UTC| Technology
The poem is not the critics own and not the authors (it is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it). The poem belongs to the public The Intentional...
Police drones: can we trust the eyes in the skies?
Feb 29, 2016 06:00 am UTC| Law Life Technology
In Australia, unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are now being used by the police in most states as a tool to help fight crime or to assist in rescue missions. For example, drones are being used to locate people on...
Automation won't destroy jobs, but it will change them
Feb 29, 2016 04:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The last few years have seen numerous studies pointing to a bleak future with technology-induced unemployment on the rise. For example, a pivotal 2013 study by researchers at the University of Oxford found that of 702...
Marketers claim 5G will support the Internet of Things but is that really a thing?
Feb 28, 2016 16:12 pm UTC| Technology
A major focus of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week was around advances in implementing 5G, the version of mobile wireless networks that will replace the current 4G. In a nutshell, 5G will bring massive...
Will self-driving cars reduce energy use and make travel better for the environment?
Feb 26, 2016 14:51 pm UTC| Technology
I started learning driving only three years ago, and inevitably failed my first test. Naturally, I was disappointed: but then it occurred to me that I could avoid the whole issue, if only I could get my hands on a...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects