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Author: Daniel Rutledge

Facebook has given the first glimpse at a wrist-based computer input system it's working on as part of its augmented reality (AR) development.

The social media company has huge ambitions for the technology, hoping it'll revolutionise how humans interact with computers and even calling it a "form of a superpower".

But the tech presents huge ethical concerns. With privacy and online safety an international hot topic - particularly regarding Facebook itself - the company is seeking public input into the development to try and avoid the dangers it could present.

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A disease modeller has described the "confronting" moment he first realised how many New Zealanders could die from COVID-19. 

Shaun Hendy worked with the Government to develop its COVID-19 response. Now, one year on from New Zealand's first lockdown, Hendy told the AM Show the worst-case scenario would have been devastating. 

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A cycling group is calling for a lane of the Auckland Harbour Bridge to be converted for bikes after the Skypath was delayed due to technical issues. 

Chair of Bike Auckland Barb Cuthbert said the delay is "hugely disappointing". 

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Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.

Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.

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China's new Coast Guard Law has turned its fishing fleets into a dangerous weapon in the South China Seas. The Maritime Militia has encroached upon Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and more, staking out territorial claims of the Chinese Communist Party while overfishing resources. But now the US is sending its Coast Guard far from home to combat the challenge.

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Author: Rachel Jewett

New Zealand-based smallsat launcher Rocket Lab made headlines earlier this month when it announced plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) and set a $4.1 billion valuation on the company. It also shared its plans to build a reusable, medium-lift vehicle called Neutron, with an 8-ton payload capacity.

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Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force Boeing 757 have carried out a contactless delivery of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Port Moresby to help Papua New Guinea deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The delivery of the PPE follows the Government’s announcement on Friday that New Zealand is providing additional support to PNG following the spike in COVID-19 cases there.

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There are good reasons why we are hearing a lot about American democracy as the Biden Administration takes office. If anyone needed reminding of the strain that four years of Donald Trump’s presidency had placed on the institutions underpinning America’s democracy, the 6 January siege of the US Capitol building illuminated the problem with terrifying starkness.
 
Two weeks later, in the poem that stole the inauguration show, Amanda Gorman insisted that “while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.” In his inaugural address Biden sought to rededicate the United States to its constitutional principles: “Today”, he intoned, “we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy.”
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