The space race between US billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk’s SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin’s ambitions as both companies...
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The NSW state government has soft-launched its long-awaited Digital ID – ten years in the making – as an opt-in credential to greatly simplify access to state services. And...
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A pioneering oceanographer has criticised CSIRO management’s lack of scientific experience and warned cuts to the agency’s environmental research will compound Australia’s climate crisis. Amid reports the CSIRO’s Environmental...
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The Queensland government has started work on a new statewide science and innovation strategy, kicking off public consultation on a plan centered around capability, connections and commercialisation. The two-month...
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Google has introduced a feature in Australia that lets you choose which news publishers appear in your search results, allowing you to create your own personalised innovation feed. The...
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While public attention has been fixed on artificial intelligence, another technology revolution has been quietly gathering momentum. Others have pointed out that the quantum era has arrived with much...
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Principles of quantum mechanics can amplify wireless communications technology, world-first research by Australian scientists has shown, paving the way for future 6G networks to be faster and more energy...
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The former managing director of CSIRO’s Data61 Jon Whittle has joined Melbourne Business School as a distinguished fellow. The school announced the NASA alum’s appointment this week, saying he...
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Taiwan aims to build a ‘democratic’ high-tech supply chain with the United States and form a strategic AI partnership under the new tariffs deal it sealed with Washington last...
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The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission...
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The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has renewed calls for government to extend its authority to include the handling of complaints about social media and other digital platforms. The TIO, which...
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Communications minister Anika Wells has defended the federal government’s competing artificial intelligence and online safety agendas, saying it will be possible to pursue AI sector growth alongside tighter regulatory...
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Australia’s chief scientist Tony Haymet has issued a blunt warning that the nation must seize the AI and data centre opportunity by creating homegrown intellectual property – not just...
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Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings...