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When Alexa Jovanovic stepped into Ryerson University’s School of Fashion on her first day, she was determined to learn to become an editor-in-chief of a high-end fashion magazine.
But a life-changing course steered her to an entrepreneurial path where she supports a demographic those magazines have neglected for decades: the blind and visually impaired community.
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By David Silverberg
image captionDrilling for hot rocks - a plentiful energy source
Drilling holes into an extinct volcano might sound like an unusual start to an energy project.
But that s what J Michael Palin, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand, is planning to do.
His project involves drilling two boreholes to a depth of 500m (1,600ft) and monitoring the rock to see if it is suitable to provide geothermal energy. It has been known for some time that the Dunedin region has surface heat flow about 30% higher than expected based on previous measurements, says Dr Palin.
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Home working increases cyber-security fears
By David Silverberg and Will Smale
Business reporters
Peter says that the cyber-attacks on his company are relentless. We see tens of different hacking attacks every single week. It is never ending.
A senior computer network manager for a global financial services company, Peter (who did not want to give his surname, or the name of his employer, due to his firm s anxieties surrounding cyber-security), says they are bombarded from all directions. We see everything, he says. Staff get emails sent to them pretending to be from the service desk, asking them to reset their log-in passwords.