A Malaysian man who trafficked three tablespoons of heroin into Singapore in 2009 was hanged last week despite an international outcry to halt the execution. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was on death row for over 10 years before he was hanged at the age of 34 last Wednesday. His mother made a last-minute attempt to spare…
Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles worked with an AI software that showed it could go a long way in early detection of pancreatic cancer. Findings reveal that the technology had an 86 per cent accuracy in predicting if a patient would develop the disease. It studied over 108 CT scans from patients…
According to Italy’s constitutional court, children should be born with the surnames of both parents, not just one. The decision comes after calls were made to rid the old tradition of children taking on their father’s last name at birth. Judges say that the old way of choosing a child’s surname is “discriminatory and harmful…
An ex-SAS soldier who served with Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan has denied collusion with the decorated war veteran, and up to three other witnesses, to give false information about war crimes allegedly committed by Mr Roberts-Smith. Mr Roberts-Smith sued three major newspapers (The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times)…
Oliver Zipse has joined several others in the car manufacturing business, speaking out against the disadvantages of an all-electric future for vehicles. Speaking at a roundtable for the New York Auto Show, Zipse detailed that it’s not necessarily feasible for every country to go electric and that dependency for supplies could become an issue. “When…
Soon to be Twitter owner Elon Musk certainly appears to have his hands full, adding a new and futuristic project that could revolutionise the transport industry. His corporation The Boring Company tweeted that full-scale testing for a hyperloop will begin later this year. The project is known as Loop and is described as an “all-electric,…
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has given the greenlight to Red Cross Lifeblood to start accepting donations from people who resided in the UK from the 80s to 90s. Mad Cow Disease was rampant during that time period with experts saying in some particular cases, transmission occurred through blood transfusions. Humans caught the illness through…
People will now be able to see how much Australian politicians are spending on social media ads and campaigns in the lead up to the federal election next month. Developed by computer scientists and political experts at the University of Queensland (UQ), this data will provide information that UQ Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini says is…
The term “cost of living” has been bandied about as a hot topic leading into the Federal Election next month, and now you can add electricity prices (if you hadn’t already) after wholesale figures were released today. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) announced the numbers from January 1 to March 31 had shot up…
A cock-a-doodle-do or two has apparently upset a neighbour in southern France with the cockerel being taken to court for a noise complaint, but surprisingly the rooster could win. The owner of a rooster called Pitikok has been taken to court by their neighbour for excessive crowing but thanks to a recent French law the…