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Weekly News From Beyond Infinity 18/4/17

April 20, 2017 News, Podcast John Young

Our weekly news round-up: New technique set to curb cane toad numbers, using their own toxins; Apple gains permit to test self-driving cars in California; Metal Organic Frameworks promise to extract water from Earth’s atmosphere; NASA’s new Space Launch System is significantly under-funded, expect delays; Burger King’s gorilla marketing campaign triggers Google Home to advertise the Whopper; Huge pre-orders for Galaxy S8; Uber’s $2.8 billion loss in 2016; ISP’s must collect and retain Australian meta data from now; New VR experience lets sick kids go to the zoo – virtually.

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On 31st August 2020, a group of thirteen senior Melbourne doctors signed an open letter to Victorian Premier Dan Andrews expressing deep concern with the government’s handling of the corona virus pandemic. Five days later, 491 other medical practitioners, mainly from Melbourne, had added their signatures to the letter, which describes the government policy of stage 4 lockdown as “ill-focussed, heavy-handed and unjustifiable”. It calls for a more pragmatic, common sense approach.

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Piers discusses the Australian Government's new COVIDSafe app with digital marketer Michael Simonetti (AndMine). Will enough people use the virus tracking app? What are the privacy considerations? And if we’re all on Facebook, does it even matter? Is this expensive, high-tech app solution really any more effective than New Zealand’s paper and pen contact diary approach? To understand the issues at stake, Michael reckons we need to educate ourselves about the technology.

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