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Woman slashed on chest in Brisbane attack

A woman is in a serious condition after being slashed across the chest in inner-city Brisbane. A 43-year-old woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm over the assault at Woolloongabba on Monday afternoon. The 38-year-old victim remains in the ... >> view original

Brisbane Lions still likely to pick up Josh Schache in the draft despite win ...

Even if they shared Brisbane's preference for Schache the Lions would hardly be missing out. No one thinks a key forward is the only missing piece to the premiership puzzle. They need good players on every single line and wins are crucial to show ... >> view original

Brisbane on track as a smart city

Brisbane is on track to join Barcelona, Toronto and Rio De Janeiro as a "smart city" capable of collecting and analysing real time data to improve liveability, according to IT guru Gordon Feller. Feller, the Director of US-based Cisco Systems, said the ... >> view original

FFA puts Brisbane Roar owners on notice

The club also owes the Queensland Rugby Union just over $60,000 for use of Ballymore as a training venue for the past 12 months. They have until tomorrow to pay or liquidators will be engaged and the company, Brisbane Roar Football Club Pty Ltd, will ... >> view original

Brisbane 18th as Melbourne named world's most liveable city for fifth ...

The liveability ratings are the latest in a spate of snubs for the River City. BRISBANE has trailed all other mainland Australian state capitals in The Economist's latest global liveable cities rankings. Melbourne was named the world's most liveable ... >> view original

Carlton was so pathetic against Brisbane it may be worth asking the question ...

The Blues were pathetic after quarter-time against Brisbane on Saturday. Utterly pathetic. So uncompetitive that you sort of hope they were tanking because at least that would be an acceptable excuse. They kicked six goals in the first quarter and just ... >> view original

What Wikipedia edits can tell us about the politicization of science

Long before our current politicized battles over the science of climate change, vaccines and evolution, there was an older generation of political science fights — over the health effects of smoking and the environmental costs of acid rain and the ... >> view original

Who's to blame when AI systems go wrong?

There has been much discussion of late around the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), especially regarding robot weapons development and a related but more general discussion about AI as an existential threat to humanity. If Skynet of the ... >> view original

Soon, an elevator to the space that is taller than Burj Khalifa

Toronto: A Canadian firm has been granted a US patent to build the world's first-ever space elevator -- 20 times the height of the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa -- that will also have a tower assisting spacecrafts to land and take off. Ontario ... >> view original

Artificial leaf could revolutionize energy industry – Aussie scientists

An artificial leaf may soon turn the whole energy industry upside-down, providing cars, houses and even whole cities with a new, but well-known type of energy, Australian scientists say. Researches from Monash University School of Chemistry, Victoria, ... >> view original