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Police drones: can we trust the eyes in the skies?

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imageSome people are concerned by the presence of drones in the air above them.Shutterstock

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 the ground and transmit GPS...

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Vale Shakespeare, the (not always) patriarchal Bard

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imageThe wives win hands-down in The Merry Wives of Windsor. REUTERS/Toby Melville. An image of playwright William Shakespeare from The Herball, a 16th-century book on plants.

It is only two years since we celebrated the 450th anniversary of his birth but – as we approach the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – Bard biz is...

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Marketers claim 5G will support the Internet of Things but is that really a thing?

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imagenetworkKeiichiro Ono , CC BY

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 improvements in data rates with speeds up to 10 Gbps meaning that an HD movie will download in seconds....

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John Howard complicates Malcolm Turnbull's tax problems

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When you are Malcolm Turnbull floundering in the heavy seas of tax reform, it is perhaps unfortunate that the 20th anniversary of the election of the Howard government has come around at this particular moment.

John Howard has reached near demigod status in the Liberal Party, second only to Robert Menzies. His biggest economic reform was the...

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