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Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts

Meghan Markle: reports of her ‘British accent’ sound like journalistic licence, say linguistics experts

Fairly soon after her marriage to Prince Harry in May 2018, articles about Meghan Markle started to appear – in the BBC, Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Express – reporting a change in her speech. Apparently the American actress has taken on a “British” accent along with her membership of the royal family.

Popular social media acronyms you need to know

Popular social media acronyms you need to know

Don’t we all sometimes come across acronyms or abbreviations used in social media which we are wondering about? Our common social media shorthand has indeed become amazingly extensive. We have acronyms and abbreviations for not only the way we chat back and forth with one another but also the marketing that we use there. It should be great to share…

Dogs process language in a similar way to humans – MRI brain scans discover evidence

Dogs process language in a similar way to humans – MRI brain scans discover evidence

Dogs can understand human speech and are only truly happy if a praising tone of voice is matched by the actual words spoken Dogs understand what some human words mean, according to a study published in the prestigious journal Science. In a world-first experiment, academics in Hungary trained 13 dogs to voluntarily lie in an MRI scanner to monitor what happened in their brain…

Computers may be evolving, but are they intelligent?

Computers may be evolving, but are they intelligent?

The final in our Computing-turns-60-series, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first computer in an Australian university, looks at how intelligent the technology has become. The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) was first used back in 1956 to describe the title of a workshop of scientists at Dartmouth, an Ivy League college in the United States. At that pioneering workshop,…