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electricity

I chose the electricity retailer offering the best deal for my...

Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Households in most of Australia have been able to choose between electricity retailers for more than a decade. The main reason...
Business + Economy
4
minutes
Vaccine rollout

Your unvaccinated friend is roughly 20 times more likely to give...

By Christopher Baker, The University of Melbourne and Andrew Robinson, The University of Melbourne As lockdowns ease in New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT,...
Health
5
minutes
Mark Zuckerberg | PHOTO: Eric Risberg:AP

Facebook relaunches itself as ‘Meta’ in a clear bid to dominate...

By Marcus Carter, University of Sydney and Ben Egliston, Queensland University of Technology Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its...
Science + Technology
5
minutes
Dev Patel in "The Green Knight"

The Green Knight review: a wonderfully unsettling cinematic reimagining of the...

By Sabina Rahman, Macquarie University Review: The Green Knight, directed by David Lowery. Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery, is...
Arts + Culture
4
minutes
Windows XP

Windows XP turns 20: Microsoft’s rise and fall points to one...

By Erica Mealy, University of the Sunshine Coast Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded...
Science + Technology
5
minutes
iPod

Apple’s iPod came out two decades ago and changed how we...

By Stuart James, Edith Cowan University On October 23, 2001, Apple released the iPod — a portable media player that promised to overshadow the clunky...
Science + Technology
5
minutes