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Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Author’s convent stay to beat Big Tech manipulation - Tech & Science Daily podcast

We know doom-scrolling or compulsively using social media isn’t healthy - but how is Big Tech manipulating us, and what about trying 24 hours in a convent for respite from all the pings?

Author and photographer Laura Dodsworth has been investigating as part of her co-written book, called Free Your Mind.

Dodsworth discusses with Tech & Science Daily the tricks tech giants deploy to keep users hooked - and how humans can fight back against the algorithm.

Space scientists at Australia’s Macquarie University and Swinburne University of Technology, as part of a global research collaboration, are using radio waves that travelled eight billion years to Earth for calculating the universe’s weight.

The fast radio bursts detected using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile help measure missing matter between galaxies to estimate mass.

Arborists, farmers and landscapers are saving the remains of Hawaiian breadfruit trees in a regrowing operation following wildfires that killed 99 people and ravaged the island of Maui.

There’s also some hope for a charred 150-year-old iconic banyan tree in the heart of the devastated town of Lahaina, which sprouted leaves as volunteers raced to drench its roots in water.

Plus, Othello director Clint Dyer spoke to The Standard's Theatre podcast about National Theatre Live, London’s £350,000 Counter-Strike 2 IRL extravaganza and US Marines ‘MacGyver’ a rocket launcher onto the back of a commercial robot dog.

Listen above, find us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you stream your podcasts.

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