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Bettina Berendt’s profile on The Conversation

All mainstream network operators in New Zealand are steadily deploying 5G across the country. While we explore the scale of innovation and growth that 5G offers in almost all sectors of life, researchers around the world are already working on 6G – the sixth generation of mobile phone technology. This obviously raises at least six basic questions: Do we really need 6G? That largely depends on the trend of how much data we, the users, exchange using our mobile devices. A network can only handle a limited amount of data sent or received by the users, which can be roughly packaged as ‘user d...

Love, tech and online abuse in the time of coronavirus Since the outbreak of COVID-19, all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic abuse, has intensified By Lin Taylor / Thomson Reuters Foundation, LONDON When Priya’s boyfriend posted a nude photo of her online, he told her it would give her a confidence boost by making her an object of desire for other men. Instead she felt powerless knowing that someone she loved had shared an intimate photo without her consent. “He said all these people dream of having you but only I get to have you,” she said from Mumbai, ...