Author: Siouxsie Wiles

OPINION: There are now over 24 million confirmed cases and I’ve been thinking about how this pandemic compares to other major outbreaks over the last 20 years. What makes Covid-19 different from Sars, H1N1, Ebola and Zika?

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300093701/coronavirus-we-lost-this-round-of-pandemic-dice
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Author: RNZ

The head of the NZX says it has been the target of an ongoing sophisticated and severe volumetric cyber attack, but it will not be providing any information on the nature of the attacks or what is being done to counter them.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2020/08/nzx-boss-tight-lipped-on-cause-of-cyber-attacks.html
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Author: Foundation for Economic Education

The entertainment industry in America has a big problem... Chinese censorship. China is a make or break market for Hollywood movies, and a major player in film financing. But the audiences and money come with strings attached.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tJqoxTJ_M
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Although the public part of the worldwide experiment is coming to an end this month, the world’s greatest extraterrestrial hunt is far from finished.

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/setihome-is-over-but-the-search-for-alien-life-continues/
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Author: New Zealand Defence Force
Testing the waters 🌊 After a large earthquake, Royal New Zealand Navy 's HMNZS Manawanui as well as hydrographers and clearance divers of HMNZS Matataua will be the first of our fleet on the scene to pave the way for humanitarian operations.
Join them, as they combined forces for the ship’s first real test of hydrographic and crane operations during an earthquake exercise at Great Barrier / Aotea Island.

Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZDefenceForce/posts/3168550589848732
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Senator James Paterson discusses the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement and has re-advocated his support for both the UK and Canada to join or negotiate a similar series of bilateral agreements as the Closer Economic Relations (CER) and Trans-Tasman Travel Area (TTTA) already existing between Australia and New Zealand. He states that these are models for the Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom Agreement, which is often abbreviated as the CANZUK agreement.

Article: https://canzuk.net/the-case-for-free-trade-and-movement-between-canada-australia-new-zealand-and-the-united-kingdom-canzuk-senator-james-paterson/
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Author: Reuters

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/08/elon-musk-unveils-chip-implanted-cypork-says-he-might-have-a-chip-in-his-brain-and-you-wouldn-t-know.html
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Author: BARBARA ORTUTAY

Elon Musk isn't content with electric cars, shooting people into orbit, populating Mars and building underground tunnels to solve traffic problems. He also wants to get inside your brain.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/300094615/neuralink-elon-musks-new-company-wants-to-implant-computer-chips-inside-human-brains
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