New theory on how six‑tonne Stonehenge rock was transported from Scotland thousands of years ago – by a glacier
Stonehenge has captured popular imagination for generations.
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Voter beware: how electoral commissions are powerless to stop deliberately misleading party names
The deliberately misleading ‘Free Palestine’ party was established by a pro-Israeli YouTuber to swing votes from left to right. And it’s perfectly legal.
An invisible, odourless, weightless science minister for Australia
When it comes to science and research portfolios in his first Cabinet, prime minster-eventual Tony Abbott appears to have taken his lead from Chinese military general Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Be extremely…
The Spark: summer’s biggest banger comes from a decades‑old initiative helping refugee and working‑class kids in Cork
Kabin Crew’s Rhyme Island initiative has worked with refugees to create many catchy tracks
Digital democracy lets you write your own laws
True democracy is not just about casting a vote every five years. It means citizens being fully involved in the proposal, development and creation of laws. The Commission on Digital Democracy currently…
Little Mix member Jesy Nelson confronts the harsh realities of online abuse – and she’s not alone
Authorities are struggling to deal with the unimaginable scale of online abuse – and young people are suffering as a result.
The year of the #techfail: All of tech gets a prize as reality bites
2016 has been a watershed year for technology. There has been some spectacular fails that have brought a more realistic perspective to the fundamental belief that technology improves with time. In part…
Trump’s Twitter ban obscures the real problem: state‑backed manipulation is rampant on social media
Social media censorship in the US fails to tackle the rising trend of ‘disinformation-for-hire’ cyber troops.
From exporting spyware to surveilling activists – how democracies became the new digital authoritarians
Democracies can either defend rights in the digital age, or drift into complicity as the architects of a new, global authoritarianism enabled by AI.
The government wants to criminalise doxing. It may not work to stamp out bad behaviour online
Anthony Albanese has flagged a crack-down on people’s personal details being shared online without consent. But like so much of the internet, it’s hard to police.
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