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https://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-to-be-kaput-in-australia-by-2050-as-renewables-batteries-take-over-79854/
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Australia’s coal-fired generation capacity could be little more than a twinkle in Tony Abbott’s eye by as early as 2050, when renewables are forecast to provide 92 per cent of the country's electricity.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/06/19/240453/its-time-to-rein-in-the-data-barons/
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When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress earlier this year to discuss how the now-defunct political-data company Cambridge Analytica acquired data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent, one of the few pointed questions came from Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. “Who’s your biggest competitor?” Graham demanded. After…
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https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2018/06/19/the-take-over-of-augmented-and-the-future-possibilities/
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https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/06/healthy-aging-is-an-oxymoron/
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https://time.com/5311672/iq-scores-decline-environment/
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IQ scores are on a decline, reversing a trend that saw scores rising at a steady rate during the 20th century, according to a new study.
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https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/13/plum-uses-ai-to-hire-people-that-never-would-have-been-discovered-through-a-traditional-hiring-process/
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Plum, a recruitment platform based in Waterloo, Canada, uses artificial intelligence to match job candidates with companies.
Plum, a recruitment platform based in Waterloo, Canada, uses artificial intelligence to match job candidates with companies.
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/06/12/could-single-vaccine-prevent-multiple-diseases-spread-mosquitoes-13073
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Mosquitoes transmit a wide variety of nasty microbes, from viruses like dengue, yellow fever and Zika, to parasites like malaria. The sheer number and diversity of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes makes vaccine development a challenge. But what if a vaccine could, instead, target the mosquito?
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/06/12/142366/ai-could-help-the-construction-industry-work-faster-and-keep-its-workforce-accident-free/
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Construction workers are killed on the job five times more often than other laborers. Now a new kind of construction worker—a data scientist—aims to use artificial intelligence to predict the likelihood of injury and intervene. Suffolk, a Boston-based general contractor with annual sales of $3 billion, is developing an algorithm that analyzes photos from its…
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https://www.verdict.co.uk/brick-laying-robots-disruption-6000-year-old-construction/
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Construction has remained more or less the same for thousands of years, but now brick-laying robots may finally be transforming the building industry. Find out how they can already outperform even the best human bricklayer
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finds-ancient-organic-material-mysterious-methane-on-mars
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https://qz.com/1298512/vr-could-be-as-big-in-the-us-as-netflix-in-five-years-study-shows/
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The media industry has long waited for virtual reality to live up to its potential. PwC projects it may finally be happening.
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https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-sovereign-launch-capability-for-australia/
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https://www.theengineer.co.uk/tokamak-energy-15-million-fusion/
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Privately funded UK venture Tokamak Energy has hit plasma temperatures hotter than the sun’s core for the first time, reaching 15 million degrees.
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https://www.dw.com/en/german-environment-ministry-pushes-for-tough-co2-cuts-electric-cars/a-44096346
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Germany's environment ministry wants to halve CO2 emissions levels for new vehicles by 2030 - more than the EU's goal. The auto sector is already alarmed by a new EU exhaust test due in September.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/india-will-abolish-all-single-use-plastic-by-2022-vows-narendra-modi
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India’s Prime Minister has promised to eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022, the most ambitious pledge yet to tackling the global problem
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/05/south-australia-rides-renewables-boom-to-become-electricity-exporter
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State reverses decades of importing power, while solar continues to grow nationally and emissions fall, audit shows
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https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2018/05/uq-bridge-world-beater
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-to-send-robots-to-mine-the-ocean-floor/
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As worldwide development rises for electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines, the demand for metals from the bottom of the sea has spiked.
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Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-s-new-minimum-wage-now-in-effect-1.4687188
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B.C.'s minimum wage is going up by $1.30 Friday to boost the province's current wage of $11.35 per hour to $12.65 per hour.
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https://www.futurity.org/anaerobic-digester-food-waste-energy-1772292/
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The power that a new anaerobic digester generates helps keep it running, which makes it totally self-sustaining.