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Image Description: The Screenslaver from ‘Incredibles 2’ In the crippling economic maelstrom whipped up by the pandemic, businesses either float or sink. There are also those titans who have triumphed from the distillation in the wealth of the largest companies. Amazon, the biggest company in the world, and the biggest winner in the pandemic have […]
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It’s that time of the decade again, the Olympics of the video game marketing world. Every six or seven years, Tech forums and Discord servers go ablaze over the anticipation of the next-generation consoles from their favourite brands. This year, though, in what is usually a three-pony race for supremacy, almost all of the hype […]
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After years in the pipeline, the Ariel space telescope has been given the go-ahead for launch in 2029. This spacecraft is the brainchild of a cooperative European endeavour to map the atmospheres and chemical environments of far-flung worlds. If all goes well, Ariel will bring planetary science out of the solar system, and into uncharted […]
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In recent weeks, prominent Premier League managers Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have renewed calls for the return of the five substitutes rule; it was put in place near the end of last season because of the loss of fitness players suffered due to COVID-19 disruption, and has since returned to three. There’s a romantic […]
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Image Credit: CD Projekt Anyone familiar with video games won’t need me to explain what expansion packs and DLC are. For anyone who isn’t, expansion packs and DLC are basically the same thing, with the latter being the more usual name these days. They provide more content for a game, be it superficial content like […]
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Trick question, it is neither. The world of transportation has already seen the rise and rapid fall of the steam locomotive and, as we look set to enter into a new era of travel, Hyperloop employs anything but traditional traction…we are talking magnetic levitation. When news broke last week that Virgin Hyperloop had become the […]
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Destiny, a gaming franchise that many declared dead for over half a decade, has a thriving community and player base. Both games in the Destiny franchise, D1 and D2, have had very rocky launches. D1 was marred by behind the scenes drama that ultimately resulted in a disjointed narrative and severely underdeveloped campaign, which many […]
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As scientists, we constantly engage in outreach to make science more accessible. We understand not everyone has someone close by to explain why we care about DNA, chemical bonds or the intricacies of neutron stars. However, it’s easy to forget the process of research is often still as mysterious to the public as the science […]
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Fake news is nothing new – there have always been flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, fake news can turn from something we meme and joke about to something that tangibly harms people’s lives. There are three main pernicious impacts of fake news – a) it can spread disinformation […]
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Image Description: A photo of Somerville College overlooking their main quad. Somerville College has imposed a quiet time on students ‘due to the lack of study space and so that students can study quietly in their room’. In an email sent out to students, the College said these measures will be in place from 9 […]
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Image Description: Image of a Quit India protest Often debates about politics can get obscured by semantics. One of the words susceptible to creating this dilemma is branding something to be ‘extremist’ in nature. Usage of the word encompasses a broad spectrum, serving as a pejorative that could be foisted just as easily onto ISIS […]
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The Sabbatical Officers of Oxford University Students’ Union (SU) have called on the University to admit all UK offer holders. This follows announcements from Worcester College which has confirmed the places of all of its UK applicants, as well as from Hertford College who have “accepted the majority of those who didn’t meet their offers”. […]
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Even if you aren’t a fan of the JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game) genre of video games, it is highly likely that you have heard of the now increasingly popular PS4 game, Persona 5. One of the most wonderful 200-hour time sinks I could ever indulge in, the game focuses on our central protagonist (Joker) and […]
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Image description: A robot on a blue background. Few scientific concepts have captured the public imagination as artificial intelligence has. The phrase often evokes images of a distant future in which humanoid robots are capable of working work alongside—or against—humans. But the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our day-to-day lives is not as far […]
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The University of Oxford’s ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 is the world-leading vaccine candidate, according to the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation. Phase 1 trial results released earlier today suggest that the vaccine is “safe, tolerated and immunogenic”. It may also offer “double protection” against the deadly virus. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneza is helping developing […]
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If we were to jump back to the early noughties and explain what the world would be like in 2020, it might seem as if we were pitching a concept for a new Resident Evil. A virus outbreak, political tensions and a world that seems on the brink of despair – it’s the stuff of […]
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Image Description: A group of Black nurses ready to serve in WWII Oxford has set up a new prize for the best thesis on Black History. The Final Honours School Board of Examiners decides the winner of the prize, who will be awarded £250, starting from this year. The prize will be named after Barbara […]
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The Oxford SU Student Council passed a motion in its 5th week meeting seeking to defer continuation fees for Graduate students. The motion argued that it is ‘completely inappropriate for the University to demand payment of continuation fees from Postgraduate Research students at this time.’ It points out that a number of Graduate students ‘ […]
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Students and alumni from St Edmund Hall Boat Club have successfully met their fundraising target of raising £1861 for charity. Members of the Club aimed collectively to exercise a total of 1861km. They met this target by collectively ‘running, cycling, and erging as fast as we can’ within the span of just one day. The […]
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