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Why the row over Twitter #280characters is a storm in a flat white

In a couple of years' time, Twitter can trigger fresh outrage by reimposing the 140-character limit and cramping everyone's style.

Kim Jong-un is a gangster with a nuclear button: Here's how to sort him out

Kim acquires weapons by sea, he pays for them with narcotics, cyber-attacks, and cryptocurrency

Authorities, companies pushing for self-driving cars, but are people ready?

The push for autonomous driving on the basis of improved safety is a solution to a situation the public doesn't consider a serious problem

England, Israel now planning bitcoin-like currency but can it replace cash?

This could help lure people back into using an official system that combines some of the benefits of both traditional and cryptocurrencies

How Nikola Tesla came from nowhere and became world famous

The 75th anniversary of Tesla's death on January 7 provides a timely opportunity to review the life of a man who came from nowhere yet became world famous

Net neutrality: Why US could lose its lead in online consumer protection

Before 2015, many internet businesses in the U.S. discriminated against or blocked customers from particular legal uses of the internet

Has Trump's presidency triggered the movement against sexual harassment?

The viral #MeToo campaign has been instrumental in raising this issue of harassment

After Robert Mugabe: Why Zimbabwe's army can't be trusted

Other countries such as Uganda, Egypt and Thailand have experienced more flagrant examples of the military's involvement in politics

Bitcoin hits $11,000: Why cyptocurrencies need global regulation urgently

Cryptocurrencies are decentralised, meaning that they are issued without a central administering authority

Tourists are stuck at Bali but erupting Mt Agung has a deeper significance

A month ago, people close to Mt Agung were told to evacuate, but they gradually drifted back to their homes and livelihoods

Why Lebanon is facing another crisis - and what Saudi Arabia stands to lose

Relevant to all this is that the Saudi government is under serious internal and external pressure

Lessons from Monarch Airlines: The PE industry is starting to look like a spent force

And when it goes wrong, the business model for private equity looks shaky

Why big projects like Adani 's coal mine won't transform regional Queensland

Annual construction spending in the resources sector peaked at A$36.6 billion in Queensland in 2013-14

Why did bitcoin prices crash? 4 factors that determine its volatility

Economists have long had a notion that psychological factors affect investor decisions

Best response to Rohingya crisis: Boycott, sanctions or engagement?

They argue that ARSA's strategy was precisely to provoke a large exodus to obtain international sympathy

After a year of the Trump show, US is as stupefied and transfixed as ever

With Trump's ascendancy, entertainment and politics are converging as never before

5 times men trivialised sexual harassment in media and why that's a problem

Rape jokes minimise the seriousness of rape and sexual assault, and the way it harms its victims

Public shaming workplace harassers may force employers to not save them

#MeToo hashtag is remarkable because changed the way employers think about punishing harassers

Dinosaurs could have avoided mass extinction if the killer asteroid had landed anywhere else

All species inevitably go extinct and the history of life on Earth is one of constant turnover

Democracy without dignity: A Confucian critique of Donald Trump

By the end of the Congress, Xi was confirmed in his position for another five years