Insane moment Myanmar military coup takes place caught on camera
2 Feb, 2021 01:48 AM
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Insane moment Myanmar military coup takes place caught on camera. Video / Khing Hnin Wai
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By: Ally Foster
Tensions in Myanmar are at an all-time high, after the country s military seized power in an early morning coup on Monday, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government members.
Suu Kyi s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), secured a landslide victory in the country s November election, winning more than 80 per cent of the votes.
The military coup came as the country s new parliament was set to meet for the first time, with the generals justifying the power grab by alleging widespread election fraud, resulting in the army imposing a one-year state of emergency.
Apple s new privacy push angers Facebook - but called a defining moment by NZ Privacy Commissioner
29 Jan, 2021 04:27 AM
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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference. Video / Supplied
OPINION:
Apple marked International Data Privacy Day by announcing a new privacy push. A pending update to iOS (the software that runs iPhones and iPads), due next spring, will require apps to get a user s permission before tracking their data across apps or websites owned by other companies.
It follows another recent Apple initiative: requiring app makers to display nutrition -style labels on apps in its App Store - designed to reveal at a glance what personal data is collected by any piece of software, and what it does with it.
How to fail well: The difference between a teachable moment and a terminal mistake
25 Jan, 2021 10:06 PM
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Fear and shame are the bedfellows of failure, while its twin, success, enjoys all the limelight. Photo / Quinton Coetzee, Unsplash
Fear and shame are the bedfellows of failure, while its twin, success, enjoys all the limelight. Photo / Quinton Coetzee, Unsplash
By: Janet Wilson
Failure can teach us a lot, but the key to success is knowing how to make it a temporary detour, not a dead end. By Janet Wilson. Failure – everything from blunders and botch-ups to catastrophes and disasters – attracts its fair share of glib bumper-sticker solutions. Fear and shame are the bedfellows of failure, while its twin, success, enjoys all the limelight. And that s because we don t learn from it.