Before Covid-19 upended our world, kids used to fight over the TV remote control to determine which cartoon to watch — “Tom and Jerry,” the “Powerpuff Girls” or maybe some mutant turtle teens. Now the fight is over the laptop, and it’s not about cartoons anymore. It’s about schoolwork. Especially for families with several school-age children and limited resources, learning via Zoom is hampered by a lack of connected devices. Meanwhile, the TV sits unused during school hours, the remote languishing between the pillows of the couch. Two Israeli startups saw an opportunity here and created Classi to fill it.…
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Chances are that you have an app tailored to improve pretty much every aspect of your life, from diet and exercise to state of mind. So why not do the same for your sexual well-being? This is the thought that guided the establishment of Sexence, a recently launched Tel Aviv-based digital platform meant to enhance its users’ sex life and pleasure. “My story with Sexence started out when, as someone who’s dealt with quite a few platforms in the world of wellness and self-care, also as an active user — I used lots of apps in the fields of meditation,…
Later this year, 100,000 dreams of people from all over the world will be projected in multiple locations across the globe and even reach outer space. How? By being incorporated into a huge international work of art that will travel across the globe and aboard Axiom Space’s AX1 mission. The artwork is being created by Dreame, a collective of artists that translates people’s dreams into commissioned works of art. Its Big Dream project took off in 2017 when it created a work of art based on the dreams of residents of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and then spliced it and…
SYDNEY — More than a dozen New South Wales Labor Members of Parliament, including key frontbenchers, have declared their support for Chris Minns as a contest to fill the party’s top job heats up. Minns emerged as the competitors after under-pressure Jodi McKay quit the leadership last week. But thus far, it seems the only person publicly endorsing former opposition leader Micael Daley is himself. The Member of Parliament for Maroubra on June 2 publicly declared he had the 15 votes needs to formally nominate for the position. Under new rules brought in five years ago, more than one candidate for the…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has drawn a line in the sand for Australia ahead of an international conference focused on climate change and security. The prime minister addressed mining executives ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall. “I sort of call this the Frank Sinatra approach — we’re going to do it our way in Australia,” he said in Canberra on May 2 night. “And if we can do it in the Pilbara, if we can do it there, we can do it anywhere.” Loy Yang power station is seen in the La Trobe Valley east of Melbourne.…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s foreign affairs department is being urged to retract a report which refugee advocates claim is inaccurate and used to send Tamil refugees back to danger after a United Kingdom court questioned its methodology. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) 2019 country information report on Sri Lanka says the torture of Tamils is no longer state-sponsored and that Sri Lankans face a low risk of torture overall. This report is “one of the most heavily relied upon documents” used by Home Affairs and tribunals which decide whether asylum seekers should receive Australia’s protection or be sent back to their home countries, as…
CANBERRA, Australia — There will be no repeat of milkshake and taco videos to explain sexual consent and coercion for Australian children. A respectful relationships reference panel of more than 20 organizations will develop new resources after videos made for schools went viral for all the wrong reasons. A milkshake-themed consent video was canned in April following widespread criticism and a swimming with sharks video intended to explain coercion. There were no direct references to sex, rape, or assault. Developed and approved by education department officials, the two videos were part of a Respect Matters campaign to teach children and teenagers about respectful…
BRISBANE, Australia — Australia’s Queensland government has launched a drive to fully vaccinate all private aged care and disability workers in the state against Covid-19 within three weeks. Health Minister Yvette D’Ath says any aged care worker can get the Pfizer vaccine at one of 18 hubs across the state from Saturday. “We will be calling on all residential aged care and disability workers to come forward and register so that we can get them booked in for this weekend to get vaccinated,” she said. “If they do that, it means in three weeks’ time we can have our aged care…
PERTH, Australia — Patients in Western Australia’s badly overcrowded public hospitals are having surgeries postponed as the system grapples with “unprecedented” demand. Premier Mark McGowan has announced elective procedures will be delayed indefinitely for category three and non-urgent category two patients. “That’s very unfortunate but that’s something we’re going to have to do, at least for the short term to make sure we get through this difficult situation we face,” he told reporters on May 2. “Hopefully it’s only a short period of time that we will look at slowing down some of that surgery.” It comes after emergency departments at all but…
SYDNEY — A refugee activist says he honestly believes Peter Dutton is a rape apologist but denies the statement is defamatory. Shortly before midnight one night in February, Shane Bazzi tweeted “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist.” Now he’s fending off a lawsuit by claiming the accusation was not defamatory. Dutton, the former home affairs minister now at the reins of the defense portfolio, made good on his threat to sue internet critics in April. He lodged a defamation action in the Federal Court against Bazzi, claiming the tweet suggested he condones and excuses rape. Bazzi’s defense, filed with the court…