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What is Hume: Bring emotional understanding to AI-generated voices

Hume can understand words in context and predict emotions, making conversations sound very human-like.

TechRadar

'Sunrise' arrives at midnight for fans celebrating release of new 'Hunger Games' novel

Bookstores worldwide hosted midnight parties for “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth installment in Suzanne Collins' “Hunger Games” series

The Independent UK

‘A cultural embarrassment’: anger as male sculptor commissioned for statue of suffragist

Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer

The Guardian - UK

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Why are Australians so reluctant to change our constitution?

The proposal for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament was the first attempt to add Indigenous recognition to the Australian Constitution. Despite what appeared to be encouraging early opinion polls, support declined as the campaign proceeded. The result, as we know, was a resounding failure.

The Conversation

Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back

The Guardian - US

Stockton bean bag gun death: police must hand documents over to watchdog

Court orders 'less lethal' tactics be produced in investigation.

Newcastle Herald

Police forced to hand 'less lethal' tactics to watchdog

A court has ordered NSW Police to hand over a manual on "less lethal" tactics as a watchdog oversees the investigation into a woman's death.

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New Hunger Games novel by Suzanne Collins will be released next year

‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ is a prequel to the original trilogy and will take place 40 years after the events of Suzanne Collin’s most recent novel, ‘The Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes’

The Independent UK

NSW police fight to keep key documents from watchdog regarding death of woman shot with bean bag round

Watchdog wants access to manual on use of ‘less-lethal’ force and personnel logs as part of investigation into Krista Kach’s fatal wounding

The Guardian - AU

Police resist handing 'less lethal' tactics to watchdog

NSW police at odds with the law enforcement watchdog over 'less lethal' tactics.

Newcastle Herald

Police in legal bid to keep 'less lethal' tactics quiet

NSW police told the Supreme Court handing over guidelines on "less lethal" tactics to the state's law enforcement watchdog may not be in the public interest.

AAP

The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore review – a warning from 18th-century Britain

In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite

The Guardian - UK

Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other

The thinker's views of human sympathy, beneficence, justice, and the division of labor still resonate.

Reason

Adam Smith's Quiet Christianity

The Scottish thinker's famous friendship with David Hume demonstrates his liberalism, not his atheism.

Reason

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The National (Scotland)

Why the right have got it all wrong about Adam Smith, one of Scotland's finest minds

We do not know the exact date of his birth but yesterday marked the 300th anniversary of the baptism of Adam Smith, the Kirkcaldy-born father of…

The National (Scotland)

The facts about life of great Scottish economist Adam Smith

TOMORROW sees the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith, one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers most usually accredited with being the father…

The Guardian - UK

Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by

From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life

Daily Mirror

'Forgotten Titanic' disaster saw kids and pregnant women die in UK lifeboat tragedy

While many people don't know about the sinking of the MV Princess Victoria ferry in the Irish Sea on January 31, 1953 - the devastating impact on the community continues to be felt

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The National (Scotland)

Plaque commemorating end of slavery in Scotland unveiled in Edinburgh

A PLAQUE commemorating the end to the legal support of slavery in Scots law has been unveiled in Edinburgh.

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh won't remove slavery-linked statues - but will apologise to Empire victims

EDINBURGH will not rename streets or remove statues linked to the slave trade as part of a package of measures agreed to shine a light on the…

Belfast Live

Twelfth 2022: BBC release details on Twelfth programme after axing live coverage

The programme will be presented by Helen Mark from the site of the Battle of the Boyne, with commentary from Mervyn Jess and Dr David Hume

The National (Scotland)

Army chaplain who became a leading figure in Enlightenment

ONE of the best career choices for any bright young Highlander after the Union of 1707 was to join the British army, with its ever widening…

The Conversation

Friday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling

Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently benign.

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