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Our lip-reading technology promises to make hearing aids more human

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageIt's written on your face.Shutterstock

Hearing aids can be lifelines for people with hearing loss. But their limitations can mean that, in particularly noisy environments, users cannot exploit the best of the existing technology. Most new hearing aid designs just make small improvements to microphones, power efficiency and noise filtering. We...

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Abbott should say what he intends on same-sex marriage

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imageEither Tony Abbott's deep ideological and religious beliefs, or his fears of doing anything that weakens his support in the party's right wing, are strongly driving him on same-sex marriage.Dean Lewins/AAP

If Tony Abbott wants to defer indefinitely the issue of same-sex marriage, he really should come out and say so. As things stand, he seems just...

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Why 50 Cent won't beat the revenge porn rap by crying bankruptcy

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imageRapper 50 Cent at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards in May. L.E. Baskow

Rapper 50 Cent may soon learn that even millions of dollars don’t put him above the law. He may think he can dodge paying for a big debt by filing for bankruptcy, but the ploy probably won’t work.

More likely, he will end up paying US$5 million in damages for his...

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