With Level 3 restrictions in place throughout the Auckland region again, Auckland businesses are feeling the pressures of lockdown rules. Jemima Huston speaks to the Chief Executive of Heart of the City Viv Beck about how the new Covid-19 outbreak is impacting our city.
Catch up on Breakfast! Listen back to Isthmus'n That, the weekly bFM catch up with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, and learn something new from the smart folks of Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland on Ready Steady Learn.
University of Auckland's Associate Professor, Johan Verbeek, joins us to talk about the importance of recycling and how we can make it easier and cheaper to recycle plastic. Definitely a hot topic in our current climate, Johan and his team are looking to work towards smart manufacturing in NZ.
I tēnei rā on Ready, Steady, Learn we're joined by School of Architecture and Planning Alessandro Premier talking smart solar urban street furniture! Whakarongo mai.
I tēnei ata Jesin James talks about her research with speech and language technologies (think Siri and Alexa) and how to create smart tech for less widely spoken languages, like New Zealand English and Te Reo Māori. Whakarongo mai! You can also check out more of Jesin's work with speech research here.
PhD candidate Isurie Akarawita gives us the info on her doctoral thesis on Smart Chewing Robots ~ and how robots can help circumvent the emotional bias present in human studies on how we enjoy our kai.
Alesha Wells a Doctoral student at the School of Psychological Medicine joins Jonny for Ready Steady Learn to yarn about a current trial of LSD microdosing in late-stage cancer patients at the University of Auckland.
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