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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of ... <a title="Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/bard-bing-and-baidu-how-big-techs-ai-race-will-transform-search-and-all-of-computing-199501/" aria-label="Read more about Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of ... <a title="The Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/the-bard-bing-and-baidu-how-big-techs-ai-race-will-transform-search-and-all-of-computing-199501/" aria-label="Read more about The Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of ... <a title="‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/let-them-watch-netflix-what-can-be-salvaged-from-the-wreckage-of-the-failed-tvnz-rnz-merger-199502/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Shutterstock Beetroot is gaining popularity as a performance-enhancer for athletes and those wanting to gain a competitive advantage in running and cycling. Some people juice beetroot, some eat it, others mix ... <a title="Can beetroot really improve athletic performance?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/can-beetroot-really-improve-athletic-performance-193221/" aria-label="Read more about Can beetroot really improve athletic performance?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
By Lice Movono in Suva Veteran Fijian journalist Netani Rika and his wife were resting in their living room when he was suddenly woken, startled by the sound of smashed glass. “I got up, I slipped on the wet surface,” he recalls. He turned on the lights and a bottle and wick were spread across ... <a title="‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls Fiji media intimidation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/no-fiji-tv-broadcast-tonight-due-to-censorship-rika-recalls-fiji-media-intimidation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No Fiji TV broadcast tonight due to censorship’ – Rika recalls Fiji media intimidation">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
RNZ News An Indonesian human rights researcher has condemned the Papuan rebels who have taken a New Zealand pilot hostage and gone into hiding in a remote mountainous region. Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch urged the rebels to release the pilot, named as Captain Philip Mehrtens of the Indonesian airline Susi Air. “It is ... <a title="Indonesian rights researcher slams kidnapping – efforts to free NZ pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/indonesian-rights-researcher-slams-kidnapping-efforts-to-free-nz-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian rights researcher slams kidnapping – efforts to free NZ pilot">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Hipkins’ very smart policy bonfire needs to be bolstered with substance Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ policy bonfire yesterday is exactly what the Labour Government needed to do. It sends the most powerful signal yet that with Jacinda Ardern’s departure, a new direction is being embarked upon – one that ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Hipkins’ very smart policy bonfire needs to be bolstered with substance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-hipkins-very-smart-policy-bonfire-needs-to-be-bolstered-with-substance/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Hipkins’ very smart policy bonfire needs to be bolstered with substance">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Szymek Drobniak, DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney A hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus). Tristan Barrington/Shutterstock As owners of some of the biggest brains in the animal kingdom, we humans often assume cognitive performance, task solving and social interactions were the basic ingredients that promoted the evolution of our complex ... <a title="New bird brain study shows evolving a big brain depends on having ‘good’ parents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/new-bird-brain-study-shows-evolving-a-big-brain-depends-on-having-good-parents-198767/" aria-label="Read more about New bird brain study shows evolving a big brain depends on having ‘good’ parents">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney When Warren Mundine, one of the lead “no” campaigners of the Voice to parliament, suggested that migrants be recognised in the Constitution along with Indigenous Australians, it was criticised as a diversionary and potentially destabilising intervention. It ... <a title="Will multicultural Australians support the Voice? The success of the referendum may hinge on it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/will-multicultural-australians-support-the-voice-the-success-of-the-referendum-may-hinge-on-it-199304/" aria-label="Read more about Will multicultural Australians support the Voice? The success of the referendum may hinge on it">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Anderson, Associate Head of School, Teaching and Learning (Health, Disability & Inclusion), Deakin University Shutterstock This month, Victoria became the latest Australian state to ban single-use plastics, including straws. While this is a win for the environment and marine life, it will come at a price ... <a title="Banning straws might be good for the planet – but bad for people with disability or swallowing problems. What is ‘eco-ableism’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/banning-straws-might-be-good-for-the-planet-but-bad-for-people-with-disability-or-swallowing-problems-what-is-eco-ableism-199183/" aria-label="Read more about Banning straws might be good for the planet – but bad for people with disability or swallowing problems. What is ‘eco-ableism’?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hao Tan, Associate Professor, Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle Shutterstock The fight against climate change is full of inconvenient truths. The latest? Coal is going to be harder to get rid of than we had hoped. Every victory like the rejection of Clive Palmer’s proposed Rockhampton ... <a title="The coal whack-a-mole: getting rid of coal power will make prices fall and demand rise elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/the-coal-whack-a-mole-getting-rid-of-coal-power-will-make-prices-fall-and-demand-rise-elsewhere-199305/" aria-label="Read more about The coal whack-a-mole: getting rid of coal power will make prices fall and demand rise elsewhere">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Milne, Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images Until now, the New Zealand Curriculum has focused almost exclusively on the development of technical reading skills. Simply reading for pleasure hasn’t been a priority, which makes its inclusion in the draft version of a ... <a title="Learning to read for pleasure is a serious matter – NZ schools should embrace a new curriculum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/learning-to-read-for-pleasure-is-a-serious-matter-nz-schools-should-embrace-a-new-curriculum-198664/" aria-label="Read more about Learning to read for pleasure is a serious matter – NZ schools should embrace a new curriculum">Read more</a>
