UpFront
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In Australia, Hollywood stars have found an escape from the virus. Who's jealous?
As a result of the near-absence of the virus, plus generous subsidies from the Australian government, the country's film industry has been humming along at an enviable pace for months compared to other locales
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The US is sitting on tens of millions of vaccine doses the world needs
The doses from AstraZeneca are waiting for trial results in the US, while countries that authorised the vaccine beg to have them.
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Remembering Lou Ottens, the inventor of audio cassettes and compact discs
The first cassette was showcased at an electronics fair in 1963, and over 100 billion have been sold since then. Ottens was 94
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Sports (NBA superstar's evolution from high school prodigy), Parenting (How to apologize to your kids), Philosophy ('A reckoning for our species') and Environment (Race to scale up green hydrogen).
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Making workplaces safer for women: Why companies can do better
Inadequate compliance of the PoSH law, poor data collection, cultural biases, and fresh challenges in tackling sexual harassment posed by the pandemic indicate that employers still have a long way to go toward safeguarding the female workforce
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What are NFTs, anyway? One just sold for $69 million
NFTs or "nonfungible tokens," have taken the art market by storm, making the leap from specialist websites to premier auction houses
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China's jaded techies find a hero in Elon Musk
The Tesla boss and digital prankster is striking a chord, at a time of disillusionment with the tech industry and its leading tycoons.
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The Olympic journey towards gender equality
More than a century after women first competed at the Olympic games, female athlete numbers will finally be bordering at parity with those of men at Tokyo 2020
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Girish Mathrubootham's billion-dollar dream for Freshworks
The entrepreneur is taking cue from rapid growth of Silicon Valley software startups to reach scale and velocity
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Mexico set to legalize marijuana, becoming world's largest market
If enacted, Mexico would join Canada and Uruguay in a small but growing list of countries that have legalized marijuana in the Americas, adding further momentum to the legalization movement in the region
