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The benefits of language-learning go far beyond being able to translate. 9to5google.comFor many years now, there have been calls for Australians to learn languages, particularly Asian languages, as th ...

The community of L'Atelier Paysan is building a wheat thresher. Chris Giotitsas/University of Leicester, CC BY-NC-NDWhat if globally designed products could radically change how we work, produce and c ...

Blade Runner Movie.comThe year 2019 must have seemed like a long time in the future 35 years ago, when the original Blade Runner film was set. Based on the US science fiction writer Philip K Dick’s 19 ...

Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad – like, really mad – at their makers? Can people learn to love machines? These are a few of the questions ra ...

Shutterstock/MRNattanonKanchakWomen are severely underrepresented in the fields of sound and music technology. This downward trend of women’s participation is reflected across the science and technolo ...

The floor scrubber of the year 2000, as seen from the 19th century, complete with attendant human. Wikimedia CommonsWhether it’s the use of Terminator imagery, visions of dystopia, or discussions of g ...

Cmdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) goes on a scientifically implausible spacewalk in _Star Trek: Discovery_. (Handout)I’ve been alive for 44 years, and I’ve been watching Star Trek for 44 ye ...

Ink Drop/ShutterstockDara Khosrowshahi will have to do more than post a humble tweet if he is to rescue Uber in London. The CEO of the ride-sharing company will need new reserves of humility, allied w ...

How does technology affect family relationships? Syda Productions/Shutterstock.comAs a university professor and a mother of teen boys, I am immersed in a world of young faces buried in their phones. T ...

PixieMe/ShutterstockWhen Snapchat launched in 2011, ephemerality was its unique selling point. Its self-destructing photo and video messages were a stark departure from established social media platfo ...