Tech journalist Takara Small says people are building private social networks, through group messages with friends and family and interest-based communities, to create a safe space online.

Today on q: Studio K's Gary the Unicorn and puppeteer Jason Hopley, author and mindfulness instructor Tamara Levitt, filmmaker Mostafa Keshvari, actor Nicholas Braun.

COVID threatens mountain gorillas and these boots were made for running

Before coming up with the dangling dollar bill, the grunge band had a few other ideas.

As the people Canada flew out of Wuhan, China, settle into their second day of a two-week quarantine at a Canadian military base, the debate over whether they pose a real risk of spreading the novel coronavirus here is heating up.

The award-winning British author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about amplifying the voices of marginalized people through literature.

When we first meet Adam and Eve in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, they live in a perfect world. But by the end, they're expelled into one that is marked by exile, war, illness and death. IDEAS explores what the poem says to us about how to grapple with an uncertain future — and if we can find our collective way back home.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Dane Kirby and FBI Agent Roselita Velasquez probe a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida hotel room in Panowich's searing follow-up to Like Lions (2019). Arnie Blackwell's murder is only the beginning. Someone is leaving a bloody trail through the Southeast looking for Arnie's younger brother, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed. As Dane and Roselita hunt for the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has them entangled in a web of secrets. A masterful tale of Southern Noir.

Het aantal Nederlandse consumenten dat een vaste telefoonlijn belangrijk vindt, blijft dalen. Een trend die al in 2014 ingezet is. De meest voorkomende reden waarom consumenten nog een vaste telefoonlijn in huis hebben? Omdat de vaste telefoniedienst onderdeel uitmaakt van het internet en bellen abonnement of alles-in-1 pakket. Dat zegt ruim een kwart (26%) van de consumenten in het meest recente telefoniemarkt onderzoek van Telecompaper.

Klanten die een internetabonnement van KPN hebben waren altijd verplicht om gebruik te maken van het modem dat de provider in bruikleen meeleverde; de zogenoemde Experia Box. KPN heeft deze verplichte voorwaarde nu gewijzigd. Daardoor is het nu ook mogelijk om een eigen modem te kiezen en aan te sluiten.

Internet en tv providers met abonnementen via glasvezel of VDSL worden door consumenten vaker aangeprezen bij familie, vrienden en collega's dan kabelproviders. Dat blijkt uit een recent Net Promoter Score (NPS) onderzoek van Telecompaper. Glasvezel- en VDSL providers scoren bijna vier keer hoger dan kabelproviders.

Any meaningful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require imagination, risk, solidarity and vulnerability; it will mean refusing to ‘free-ride’ and a willingness to sacrifice. How can we cultivate this capacity for social solidarity in our time of social fragmentation and mutual distancing?

A treasure trove of breathtaking breaks and rare grooves.

A connoisseur-satisfying collection, yet completely accessible for novices.

Dancefloor joy and broken hearts on Vandross’ third album.

Dave Grohl and friends celebrate creativity and friendship on a mostly successful set.

Grunge originators show zero signs of mellowing.

Is true privacy even possible in the internet age, and what is at stake if we don't protect what we have left?

Now, more than ever, are we sacrificing privacy online for connection? The changes in online dating behaviour during lockdown, and ruminations on aging when you still feel 28. Plus a song for its namesake.

Unusual supergroup delivers a set that’s more sketches than songs proper.

A high-quality collection of labyrinthine fusions from tantalisingly unfamiliar artists.

A double-CD set that superbly showcases this label’s remarkable history.

Solid-enough budget compilation highlighting both known and worth-knowing talents.

Every track is destined to fill a dancefloor with abandoned gyrations.

Parliament is set to pass legislation introducing tough penalties for people or agencies who access data from the COVIDSafe app in violation of its stated purpose.

A refreshingly varied voyage, with Tom Waits, Beth Orton and Patti Smith amongst the crew.

Ibragimova’s svelte, unforced violin tone is just right.

The first step on what seems to be a joyous journey for the Norwegian pianist.

The most exciting and consistently well-sung Don Giovanni to appear for several years.

A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers.

In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater.

This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best.

An indispensable illustration of the wild and vivid evolution of 1960s psychedelia.

We make it easy for New Zealanders to work in Australia but not so easy for them to survive in times of personal crisis. Four Kiwis tell their stories of falling between the cracks.

Emus have once again mobbed the streets of Longreach in search of food and water. While some locals say the number of chicks is a good omen for the wet season, an expert says the birds simply "lay and hope for the best."

Expanded access program streamlines patient treatment.

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A 15-year journey to build the world's largest wooden clock hit several hurdles, but the biggest was finding somewhere to put the 6-metre tall wooden timepiece.

Prisoners being transported in Tasmania Police vans have no restraints and are forced to crouch of lie down when they're inside, according to the state's police union, which warns it is only a matter of time before someone dies.

Turkeys bred on a farm in western Victoria are at the centre of the global fight to improve the flu vaccine.

This action fantasy plays very fast and loose with history, but takes itself far too seriously to be really enjoyable.