Michael Smith

Jan 14, 2025 | theguardian.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Noreen Riols, who has died aged 98, served within the wartime Special Operations Executive (SOE), which coordinated resistance operations behind enemy lines. Her main role lay in training officers for surveillance work by acting as their target. She also acted as a “honey trap” in the final test before agents were sent into the field, trying to seduce them into giving away their mission.

Jul 31, 2024 | thewestsider.com.au | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Occasionally I find myself on the roof of the Sun Theatre, washing our solar panels, helping with some maintenance or taking a photo, (any excuse really…) from which there is a magnificent view of the city to the east, and from the Westgate Bridge clear all the way to the You Yangs, with everything in between being our beloved Westside. Respect. The You Yangs stand as a proud bookend to the plains of Werribee.

Mar 27, 2024 | thedrum.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Despite gaming's dominance in entertainment and culture, lagging ad spend is attributed to various factors, says Anzu's Michael Smith (vice-president of sales, EMEA). But the rise of intrinsic in-game advertising presents a solution poised to close the gap and unlock vast opportunities for advertisers. With gaming one of the most popular pastimes and a billion-dollar industry, why has ad spend not yet caught up with the industry's growth - and what needs to happen to move the dial?

Jan 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Mike Sadler, who has died aged 103, won both the military medal and the military cross as an honorary “founding member” of the wartime SAS before going on to a long career in the British secret intelligence service MI6. He was the last original member of the SAS, whose exploits were dramatised in the BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022), based on the 2016 book of the same name by Ben Macintyre.

Jan 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

I am a British tourist, and I spend my holidays searching for species that are believed to be extinct. On my last trip to Papua New Guinea in 2022, I found a Louisiade pitta bird, which had been the focus of failed professional expeditions for years. It hadn’t been seen alive since 1898. We went around playing recordings of a related pitta, which sounds a bit like a chicken being strangled, until we received a reply.