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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/economy/asia-pacific/australia-economic-outlook.html
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Australia’s economy slowed in 2018–19 due to a housing downturn and a severe drought. But economic growth is expected to pick up on the back of monetary and fiscal stimuli, which is likely to boost household income and consumer spending.
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https://www.themeditelegraph.com/en/shipping/2019/06/08/news/australia-to-become-top-world-s-lng-producer-1.38069277
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Oslo - Australia is poised to become the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) next year and to retain that position until 2024
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https://www.americanbanker.com/news/fed-plans-to-launch-real-time-payment-service-by-2024
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As part of its justification for developing its own government-backed system, the central bank said that leaving only a single fast network run by big banks constitutes a potential risk to the economy.
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https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/uber-lyft-traffic-congestion-ride-hailing-cities-drivers-vmt/595393/
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https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/job-automation-future-of-work-in-government.html
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As more and more business leaders redesign jobs around AI, robotics, and new business models, here are steps public sector leaders can take now to transform their workplaces and maximize human and machine capabilities.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/456112-greenlands-ice-sheet-wasnt-expected-to-melt-like-this-until-2070
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The Greenland ice sheet covers an area the size of Alaska with enough ice to raise global sea level by more than 20 feet.
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/revolutionary-blast-furnace-vaporizes-trash-and-turns-it-into-clean-energy/
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A renewable energy startup is using a new technology that can vaporize non-recyclable trash into energy—all without generating any emissions.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/02/quantum-supremacy-computers
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If quantum computers are to help solve humanity’s problems, they will have to improve drastically
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https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/08/01/ai-researchers-developed-a-fully-imaginary-keyboard-for-touchscreens-and-vr/
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A trio of researchers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently developed an eyes-free, AI-powered, invisible keyboard interface that positions itself based on where you choose to set your hands when you’
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/columbiabusinessschool/2019/07/31/the-construction-labor-shortage-will-developers-deploy-robotics/?sh=7ebf18bb7198
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Startups are racing to fix the construction productivity problem. Most of the money went towards modular housing companies or software promising to optimize current processes. Yet neither of these buckets addresses the labor shortage head-on. Many startups claim robots might address the shortage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aWJ5p3X-Yo
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No stranger to record-breaking projects, China has now completed one of the largest airports ever conceived - the USD $12BN Daxing International in Beijing. ...
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/07/31/opinion/fossil-fuel-burning-leaps-new-record-crushing-clean-energy-and-climate-efforts
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Global fossil burning keeps rising relentlessly as the world sprints away from climate safety. Here are ten charts from the latest data to show you what's happening and who's doing it.
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https://qz.com/africa/1675287/china-to-africa-flights-jumped-630-in-the-past-nine-years/
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The expansion of air traffic between the African continent and China coincides with a period of rapid growth of Chinese investment.
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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-readies-plan-for-4-billion-tesla-scale-battery-storage-plants-1564077561033.html
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India will need 6 gigawatt-scale plants of 10GWh each by 2025 and 12 by 2030.Apart from EVs, such battery storages will cater to the consumer electronics industry and electricity grids, given the intermittent nature of electricity from clean energy sources
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-25/desperate-for-workers-aging-japan-turns-to-robots-for-healthcare
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In fast-aging society, Japan finds role for robots in healthcare
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywyykw/megadroughts-are-likely-coming-to-the-us-southwest-within-decades-scientists-say
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Climate change is 'almost assured' to cause decades-long droughts in the American Southwest not seen since medieval times, scientists warn in a new study.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211013-huge-arctic-fires-have-now-emitted-a-record-breaking-amount-of-co2/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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Wildfires still burning in the Arctic have continued for so long they have now released more carbon dioxide than any other year since records began
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https://www.wired.com/story/how-scientists-built-living-drug-to-beat-cancer/
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Researchers didn’t know if it would work, but they had little to lose when they tried a new drug known as a CAR-T—a living cell reprogrammed to recognize and kill leukemia—on a dying 6-year-old.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/24/scientific-consensus-on-humans-causing-global-warming-passes-99
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Extensive historical data shows recent extreme warming is unprecedented in past 2,000 years
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https://soundcloud.com/a16z/cobalt-mining-battery-metals
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Play a16z Podcast: The Search for the Secret Metal that Powers All Our Devices by a16z on desktop and mobile. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/more-water-ice-on-moon
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The research addresses a longstanding question: Why does the moon have so much less ice than Mercury, despite their similar surface conditions?