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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology There has been a clash of clans in mobile gaming, with angry birds Apple, Google and Epic Games in a saga over in-app payments. Video game developer Epic’s massively popular “battle royale” game Fortnite ... <a title="Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/apple-google-and-fortnites-stoush-is-a-classic-case-of-how-far-big-tech-will-go-to-retain-power-144728/" aria-label="Read more about Apple, Google and Fortnite’s stoush is a classic case of how far big tech will go to retain power">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Willsteed, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. This road down to Nashville is like crystal and stone, it’s a place where a man sells his ... <a title="Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/winter-winds-by-hippy-cowboy-mickey-newbury-the-perfect-soundtrack-to-wintry-times-143542/" aria-label="Read more about Winter Winds by hippy cowboy Mickey Newbury: the perfect soundtrack to wintry times">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it? Some new studies found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 ... <a title="Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/exposure-to-common-colds-might-give-some-people-a-head-start-in-fighting-covid-19-143455/" aria-label="Read more about Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Department of Social Services has confirmed Australia’s pensioners will not receive an automatic indexation increase this September, because inflation has gone backwards. This will be the first time since 1997 the pension hasn’t risen with ... <a title="There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/there-will-be-no-pension-increase-in-september-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-but-there-is-a-simple-fix-144732/" aria-label="Read more about There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Over 2,000 active cases of COVID-19 and 245 resident deaths as of August 19 have been linked to aged care homes in Victoria, spread across over 120 facilities. The St Basil’s cluster alone now involves 191 cases. In ... <a title="Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/poor-ventilation-may-be-adding-to-nursing-homes-covid-19-risks-144725/" aria-label="Read more about Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming ... <a title="Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/stone-tools-from-a-remote-cave-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living-in-the-jungle-millennia-ago-144570/" aria-label="Read more about Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University After Australia’s two big local newspaper companies, Australian Community Media (ACM) and News Corporation, shut down scores of rural newspapers as part of their COVID-19 cost-saving strategies, there were heartwarming stories of retrenched journalists and volunteers stepping in to fill ... <a title="The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/the-governments-regional-media-bailout-doesnt-go-far-enough-here-are-reforms-we-really-need-144666/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Lockwood, Associate Professor Implementation Science, JBI, University of Adelaide Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent. As COVID-19 (and ... <a title="Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/goodbye-brain-scrapers-covid-19-tests-now-use-gentler-nose-swabs-144416/" aria-label="Read more about Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, ... <a title="10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/10-years-on-inception-remains-christopher-nolans-most-complex-and-intellectual-film-144664/" aria-label="Read more about 10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Louise Flanagan, Infectious Diseases Specialist and Clinical Professor, University of Tasmania Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Wednesday the Australian government has signed a letter of intent to procure the University of Oxford’s vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and to provide it free ... <a title="The Oxford deal is welcome, but remember the vaccine hasn’t been proven to work yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/the-oxford-deal-is-welcome-but-remember-the-vaccine-hasnt-been-proven-to-work-yet-144726/" aria-label="Read more about The Oxford deal is welcome, but remember the vaccine hasn’t been proven to work yet">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the withdrawal of the international market, and the stresses of delivering education virtually, the university sector has been hit especially hard by COVID-19. The sector, which in the 2018-2019 financial year contributed $37.6 billion in export income to the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Professor Barney Glover on the bleak years ahead for higher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-professor-barney-glover-on-the-bleak-years-ahead-for-higher-education-144736/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Professor Barney Glover on the bleak years ahead for higher education">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Douglass Rovinsky, PhD Candidate, Monash University Until it was hunted to extinction, the thylacine – also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf – was the world’s largest marsupial predator. However, our new research shows it was in fact only about half as large as previously ... <a title="The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/the-tasmanian-tiger-was-hunted-to-extinction-as-a-large-predator-but-it-was-only-half-as-heavy-as-we-thought-144599/" aria-label="Read more about The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought">Read more</a>
