The beat ‘911. Where’s your emergency?’ Apple wants to shorten the response times of emergency services. The iPhone’s next operating system will pinpoint the location of a 911 call, allowing the 6,300 emergency response centres …
The world First up this week, an unusual coalition of far-right and anti-establishment parties has been sworn into office in Italy. For a comprehensive understanding of how social media propelled the populists to the political …
The beat Surveillance state A new police camera system in New Jersey is raising serious privacy concerns. The city of Newark plans to install over 300 surveillance cameras to create a ‘virtual block watch’. The new …
The Communist Party of China’s (CPC) decision this week to eliminate presidential term limits seems to open the door for President Xi Jinping to be not just ‘Chairman of Everything’, but also ‘Chairman Forever’. The …
Two Defence Department space projects 50 years apart have neat parallels. On 29 November 1967, Australia’s first satellite, WREsat, developed by a forerunner of the Defence Science and Technology Group, was launched from Woomera. Last …