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Would you trust AI to help you find ‘the one’? Dating apps are betting it can
Before the end of the year, dating app Bumble will be getting rid of the swipe and introducing an AI powered dating assistant.
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New documentary traces Kylie Minogue’s career, from harsh early critics to pop stardom
Netflix’s three-part documentary about Kylie Minogue covers her nearly 40 year career, as Minogue sits in her archive room going through slides and mementos.
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Rising rents and ‘death taxes’: why wild claims after the budget don’t actually make sense
Some budget commentators have missed the mark entirely. Let’s bust some myths and set the record straight.
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What should ‘foundational supports’ look like for people ineligible for the NDIS?
A lot has to go right for the $37.8 billion in NDIS savings to be delivered without leaving disabled people to fall through the cracks.
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4 reasons the ‘largest energy crisis’ on record has been held at bay – and why there’s pain to come
Rich countries have been burning through oil stockpiles and seeking other suppliers to avoid the global energy crunch. But these measures have limits
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Why Australia’s cuts to news services in the Indo-Pacific are a failure of soft diplomacy
As authoritarian influence and disinformation grow across the Indo-Pacific, Australia is still failing to back one of its strongest assets: trusted journalism.
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The far right is surging in France, Germany and parts of Europe. What will this mean for Ukraine?
There are long-term questions regarding support for Ukraine if far-right populists win more power in the EU’s most powerful states.
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Was Auckland the cradle of the Kiwi accent? An old theory gets a new hearing
A rediscovered academic paper from 1921 suggests New Zealand’s classic ‘fush and chups’ vowel sounds may have emerged fastest in Auckland’s colonial melting pot.
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Game changers: how soccer’s mega-money era was sparked by a little-known Belgian athlete
An obscure Belgian soccer player arguably made a bigger mark on the world game than stars such as Diego Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Some technologies use accelerated natural processes to capture carbon – but can they store it durably?
Investment in carbon removal technologies is rising rapidly, but some models overestimate how much carbon is captured because they don’t cover all Earth processes.
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Mowing the lawn: the colonial ghosts haunting our suburban ritual
In this extract from his newly published essay collection, the author traces the imperial British origins of a quintessential Kiwi chore.
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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes
Key features of the famous monument defend it from earthquakes – but we can’t know if that’s what the builders had in mind.