If you’re back in the job market, or looking for your first position after graduating, you’ll need to think about how to ace a job interview. Getting shortlisted for interview is a significant achievement on its own, given managers routinely consider hundreds of other applicants for each position. But to interview well, you need to… Read more »
Thanks for reading Infinite Lives this year. This is my last edition for 2024, I’ll be taking a break — using the time to play my new Steam Deck — and be back in late January, 2025. Catch you in the New Year! Finally, a PlayStation 3D platformer that rivals Mario. I even went as… Read more »
How much do you need to save for a comfortable retirement? It’s a big question, and you’ll often hear dire warnings you don’t have enough. But for most Australians, it’s a lot less than you might think. You spend less in retirement Australians tend to overestimate how much they need in retirement. Retirees don’t have… Read more »
It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and mathematics to literature and politics, to share their best books of of 2024. Of course, best books lists are subjective, relying on what people have read and remembered. But we always love finding… Read more »
It’s never been easier to stay connected to work. Even when we’re on leave, our phones and laptops keep us tethered. Many of us promise ourselves we won’t check emails during our break. But we do. Being away from the workplace, and even in a new location, is often not enough to detach psychologically. We… Read more »
There’s a world in which you could consider 2024 unremarkable for the gaming industry. Like most other years, there were mass redundancies, launch delays and stuff-ups — that’s sadly become the norm. There were also breakout successes and major points of hype too. Each major player had their time in the sun. But coming off… Read more »
It was a policy blitz like no other. No less than 31 separate bills were passed by our government on November 28, clearing the way for a federal election in Australia at some point next year. Among them, a controversial but broadly supported bill to ban those under 16 from accessing social media. It’s generated… Read more »
In late November, Australia’s federal parliament passed landmark legislation banning under-16s from accessing social media. Details remain vague: we don’t have a complete list of which platforms will fall under the legislation, or how the ban will look in practice. However, the government has signalled that trials of age assurance technologies will be central to… Read more »
Nintendo has to be the gaming industry’s most unpredictable company. In 2017, after years of resisting pressure to do so, the gaming giant released a trio of mobile games leveraging its hot intellectual property: Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. All three ticked away with similar business models. You could… Read more »
Spotify has just released its 2024 Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming site’s annual presentation of each user’s yearly listening habits. It gives you a fun recap of your most listened to songs, artists and genres from the past year – complete with stats like how many minutes you listened and your top genre “phases” or… Read more »
Sydney cultivated meat startup Vow, best known for its “woolly mammoth meatball“, has launched in a second Asian city, with a new product resembling the French delicacy foie gras. The release of Forged Gras as a cell-based meat tackles one of the key ethical issues in foie gras production, gavage, the force-feeding of ducks and… Read more »
While we’re starting to turn a corner, research on the impacts of gaming continues to get a bad rap. For every story highlighting the hobby’s benefits, there are two or more stirring up panic about its impact on social development or addictive tendencies. The coverage isn’t exactly representative of what’s actually happening in global academia.… Read more »
It has fewer users than the Epic Games Store but holds the power to make or break both AAA and indie games. In nine months of writing about the games industry — but over two decades of playing them — never have I heard so much about one platform that I knew so little about.… Read more »
Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm, has one-upped Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes, part owner of US NBA team the Utah Jazz, by buying an entire basketball league, the WNBL. The deal between the Wollemi Capital Group Syndicate (WCGS) and Larry Kestelman’s National Basketball League (NBL) consortium to acquire a majority stake in the Women’s National… Read more »
The clap is back big time. Over the past decade, the levels of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhoea have increased by 157%. Chlamydia is also on the rise up 26% and is now the most reported communicable disease in Australia, with over 110,000 cases in 2023. But the infection, which is often appears asymptomatic,… Read more »
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