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How to take better photos with your smartphone, thanks to computational photography

  • Written by: Rob Layton, Senior Teaching Fellow (Journalism), Bond University
How to take better photos with your smartphone, thanks to computational photography

A light-trails long exposure of London's Tower Bridge, shot on iPhone8Plus using the NightCap app.
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Each time you snap a photo with your smartphone – depending on the make and model – it may perform more than a trillion operations for just that single image.

Yes, you expect it to do the usual...

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The DR Congo is bracing for election results and it's likely to get bloody. Here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Susan Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, Australian National University

When Congolese gynaecologist Dr Denis Mukwege received his Nobel Peace Prize a few months ago, he inferred responsibility for what happens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to everyone who owns a smart phone. As well as diamonds and oil, the country is rich in the gold, coltan and cobalt vital to the production of the smart phone in your...

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Businesses think they're on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue

  • Written by: Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
Businesses think they're on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clueTourism accounts for 8% of global emissions, much of it from planes. Shutterstock

The directors of most Australian companies are well aware of the impact of carbon emissions, not only on the environment but also on their own firms as emissions-intensive industries get lumbered with taxes and regulations designed to change their behaviour.

Many are...

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what's allowed and what's not?

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Queensland Senator Fraser Anning has used taxpayer funds to pay for flights to Melbourne to attend a protest with far-right extremists.

Anning’s use of taxpayer money for what many argue to be inappropriate reasons is another in a line of Australian MPs using their parliamentary entitlements in ways that have riled the public.

Who can forget...

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