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what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?

  • Written by: Mark Liu, Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fashion and Textiles Designer, University of Technology Sydney
what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?Can a machine understand style? Facebook's Fashion++ system recommends small changes to an outfit to make it more fashionable.Facebook

The tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook have all begun to use machine learning to give you tips on what to wear. Is fashion styling the next field to be disrupted by artificial intelligence (AI), or will the...

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Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don't want to rock the boat

  • Written by: Vanessa Bowden, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle
Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don't want to rock the boatStorm-damaged beachfront homes along Pittwater Road at Collaroy on the northern beaches of Sydney in June 2016.Dean Lewins/AAP

It is becoming increasingly possible that sea-level rise of a metre or more will occur this century. You might expect this threat to preoccupy coastal homeowners. But many deny the need to act, for fear their property...

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Australians split on the level of foreign students: ANUpoll

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Australians are divided over whether the nation’s universities have too many foreign students, according to the Australian National University’s ANUpoll, released Wednesday.

In the polling, 52.8% said the mix between foreign and domestic students was about right, but 46.1% favoured a lower level of foreign students. Only 1.1% wanted a...

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3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)

  • Written by: Tom Gordon, PhD candidate. Sydney University Physics Education Research (SUPER) group, University of Sydney
3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)The amount of sleep you get before an exam can make a difference to your results.Gregory Pappas/Unsplash

If you want to get good marks in your exams, there’s no substitute for study. So do past exams, go over your notes, read what you need to read, do the problems, ask for help – study!

But other things have a proven effect on exam marks...

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  1. Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That's unlikely to change any time soon
  2. The 'ceasefire' in Syria is ending – here's what's likely to happen now
  3. from koala jumpers to the Sydney Olympics, Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson defined Australian fashion
  4. Is coconut water good for you? We asked five experts
  5. Your brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
  6. a clever way to include homes in the age pension assets test
  7. how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce
  8. Trackless trams v light rail? It's not a contest – both can improve our cities
  9. Horse racing must change, or the court of public opinion will bury it
  10. where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day
  11. the medevac law saves lives. But even this isn't enough to alleviate refugee suffering
  12. the art and genius of metaphor in Anna Spargo-Ryan’s The Paper House
  13. Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here's how it could work
  14. Australia has plenty of gas, but our bills are ridiculous. The market is broken
  15. here's what Aboriginal survivors of child sexual abuse told us they need
  16. Don't stress, your ATAR isn't the final call. There are many ways to get into university
  17. We could reduce the slaughter of racehorses if we breed them for longer racing careers
  18. To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a 'micro-mobility' network
  19. Can Ne Zha, the Chinese superhero with $1b at the box office, teach us how to raise good kids?
  20. Breaking Pauline Hanson's 'strike' has taken skin off Bridget McKenzie
  21. a charismatic, generous performance about growing up Sikh in Australia
  22. How big alcohol is trying to fool us into thinking drinking is safer than it really is
  23. A criminal asked to design anti-money laundering laws would probably keep our current ones
  24. Migrant communities keep our cemeteries alive as more Anglo-Australians turn to cremation
  25. Morrison says China knows 'where Australia is coming from', after meeting Chinese vice-president
  26. Who's responsible for the slaughtered ex-racehorses, and what can be done?
  27. Arrogance destroyed the World Trade Organisation. What replaces it will be even worse
  28. Science prizes are still a boys' club. Here's how we can change that
  29. 4 ways to talk with vaccine skeptics
  30. The Trump presidency should not be shocking. It's a symptom of our cultural malaise
  31. how we hear image, emotion and identity
  32. Growing numbers of renters are trapped for years in homes they can't afford
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's drought policy
  34. Our ability to manufacture minerals could transform the gem market, medical industries and even help suck carbon from the air
  35. Lambie stays mute on medevac vote after Senate inquiry splits on party lines
  36. Sydney's 9,189 'sister politicians' who petitioned Queen Victoria
  37. A pioneering climate scientist skilled in the art of life
  38. ​The Coalition government is (again) trying to put the squeeze on the ABC
  39. Is your horse normal? Now there’s an app for that
  40. Might consciousness and free will be the aces up our sleeves when it comes to competing with robots?
  41. Vital signs. Our compulsory super system is broken. We ought to axe it, or completely reform it
  42. What is perimenopause and how does it affect women's health in midlife?
  43. Curious Kids: how are stars made?
  44. a road trip reveals local museums stuck in a rut
  45. how 'city girls' can learn to feel at home in the country
  46. Storm clouds avoid the bush, darken over the economy
  47. Julianne Schultz appointed chair of The Conversation
  48. Cats are not scared off by dingoes. We must find another way to protect native animals
  49. does chewing gum stay inside you for years?
  50. what Australian discrimination law says about quotas

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