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Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes

  • Written by: David White, Scientia Fellow, UNSW
Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakesStudents tested on their ability to tell whether two images were of the same person were wrong 30% of the time.Shutterstock

After a series of bank robberies that took place in the US in 2014, police arrested Steve Talley. He was beaten during the arrest and held in maximum security detention for almost two months. His estranged ex-wife identified...

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Fed up with always being in the slow queue? That's why queues are being 'designed out'

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor in Marketing and International Business, Queensland University of Technology
Fed up with always being in the slow queue? That's why queues are being 'designed out'Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to do away with queues, or at least make the perceptions of waiting less painful.Michal Parzuchowski/Unsplash, CC BY

This is the second article in our new series, Moving the Masses, about managing the flow of crowds of individuals, be they drivers or pedestrians, shoppers or...

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How changes to UK law may provide more dual citizenship drama

  • Written by: Tomas Fitzgerald, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
How changes to UK law may provide more dual citizenship dramaMight there be yet another way in which parliamentarians can unwittingly fall foul of dual citizenship laws?Shutterstock

As the apocryphal Chinese idiom goes, we live in interesting times. We can give qualified agreement to Prime Minister Turnbull’s assertion that there has never been a more exciting time to be an Australian constitutional...

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To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design

  • Written by: Denise Jackson, Associate Professor / Coordinator of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) programs, ECU School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their designStudents at Monash University are provided integrated medical and surgical teaching in year three of the new curriculum.Monash University/flickr, CC BY-NC

Work integrated learning helps prepare students for the world of work. It involves students collaborating with industry and community partners as part of their degree program. It can be an...

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  1. Many women with breast cancer may not need chemo, but beware misleading headlines
  2. Public Service Commissioner targeted over IPA links resigns
  3. Why hip fractures in the elderly are often a death sentence
  4. Remember Turnbull's 2015 'ideas boom'? We're still only part way there
  5. How stigma impacts LGB health and wellbeing in Australia
  6. Caring for elderly Australians in a home-like setting can reduce hospital visits
  7. Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across
  8. Australia needs to reset the relationship with China and stay cool
  9. Fear not, shoppers: Amazon's Australian geoblock won't cramp your style
  10. Hitchcock's Psycho and the power of jarring music
  11. understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve it
  12. New Zealand's productivity commission charts course to low-emission future
  13. Joyce admits he knew as soon as Campion was pregnant that he'd lose his job
  14. the tallest flowering plant in the world
  15. The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
  16. The Coalition's income tax cuts will help the rich more, but in a decade everyone pays more anyway
  17. strategic anxieties about rising China
  18. A survey needs to involve how many people before I'm convinced?
  19. Michelle Grattan on Barnaby Joyce's TV deal, Greg Hunt's temperament and One Nation in a pickle
  20. when art, freedom of speech and social media collide
  21. Western Sydney Aerotropolis won't build itself – a lot is riding on what governments do
  22. Children with severe trauma can be fostered, and recover with the right treatment and care
  23. Is your dog happy? Ten common misconceptions about dog behaviour
  24. why real change requires a major cultural shift
  25. What we know about why Chinese students come to Australia to study
  26. Why nanotechnology is more than just a buzzword
  27. How we're using Darwin's theory of evolution to build robots that can adapt and learn on their own
  28. Italy is broke, and the markets have lost all faith in its elected politicians
  29. how do you measure remorse?
  30. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: The explainer episode
  31. Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleague
  32. Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character
  33. Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality
  34. A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments
  35. Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality
  36. Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communication
  37. Winter is coming, and it's looking mighty mild
  38. 13 Reasons Why season 2 could still be problematic, but content warnings might help
  39. Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
  40. How children's picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies
  41. Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
  42. A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadership
  43. Darwin's On the Origin of Species
  44. Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off
  45. The future is fenced for Australian animals
  46. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
  47. Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade
  48. Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
  49. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  50. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air

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