CTCatherine Thorbecke

1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Catherine Thorbecke

   Banning kids from social media is only half a solution (opens the original)

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   The kids also need somewhere to go and something to do. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox After Australia’s social media ban on under-16s took effect in December 2025, more than 81 per cent of this group still used at least one restricted platform. Australia’s world-leading efforts to keep youth off social media are a closely watched experiment that more than two dozen countries are now trying to imitate. But the early data suggests it is not going very well. More than 81

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2. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Catherine Thorbecke

   Humanoids have bodies. They still need brains (opens the original)

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   The next AI race may be more about giving robots something closer to common sense. Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox A visitor high-fives a humanoid robot at the Keenon Robotics booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 18. While Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was blowing up online, at China’s biggest artificial intelligence summit in Shanghai, hundreds of humanoid robots clanking around the exhibition hall stole the show. Crowds packed in

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