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'Loot boxes' and pay-to-win features in digital games look a lot like gambling

  • Written by: Marcus Carter, Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
imageKids love Angry Birds. But features in the latest version of the game allow exchange of cash for game progress. from www.shutterstock.com

Do you play Angry Birds? Candy Crush? Pokémon Go?

You’re part of a huge and growing global digital games industry.

And even if you pay nothing to download the app in the first instance, features...

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We need robots that can improvise, but it's not easy to teach them right from wrong

  • Written by: Feras Dayoub, Research Fellow with the Australian centre for robotic vision, Queensland University of Technology
imageOne day we could have an intelligent robot cook up surprise meals at home.Besjunior/Shutterstock

Industrial robots have existed since the 1960s, when the first Unimate robotic arm was installed at a General Motors plant in the United States. Nearly six decades on, why don’t we have capable robots in our homes, beyond a few simple domestic...

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Student press in 1960s Australia was political, now it's more Prozac

  • Written by: Sally Percival Wood, Writer / Historian, Deakin University
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Sally Percival Wood’s new book, DISSENT: The student press in 1960s Australia, takes a look at the people, power and politics of student newspapers in that tumultuous decade. Tension between political conservatism and social unrest in post-war Australia played out on university campuses, turning them into sites of dissent. Percival Wood...

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Delay in changing direction on how we tax drivers will cost us all

  • Written by: Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageReforming how drivers pay for the costs of their road use can help keep traffic flowing, which is just one of the potential benefits. Holli/Shutterstock

The federal government announced a year ago that it would review the charges imposed on drivers for using our roads. That review hasn’t yet happened. They should get on with it, because...

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  8. With result still in the balance, Labor likely to win Queensland and One Nation likely to take just one seat
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