More than 50 tech subcontractors to the Department of Human Services are being investigated for fraud, with the Opposition saying this justifies the upcoming Senate inquiry into the Commonwealth’s...
Science
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The Australian Government is increasingly turning to computer algorithms to make important decisions in a move that experts say comes with a number of ethical and legal issues. It...
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The federal government hopes a new biomedical research centre will help overcome Australia’s less than stellar record at making something real from its basic research. The deal announced Thursday...
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The Turnbull government quietly slipped out its response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into intellectual property arrangements last Friday afternoon, supporting a recommendation to wipe out second level IP...
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly benefit humanity, but governments and experts need to act now to ensure its associated risks are mitigated, a lead researcher in the...
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Internet-of-things firm Thinxtra has been handed $10 million by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to complete the roll out of its Sigfox low powered wide area network (LPWAN)...
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Since being appointed as the Innovation Minister in 2015 in the Palaszczuk Government, Leeanne Enoch has been full steam ahead in driving the Advance Queensland initiative, designed to grow...
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The CSIRO has confirmed that its data branch Data61 is no longer working on the government’s controversial welfare drug testing scheme, as the first location for the trial has...
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Australia may not be a computer science superpower right now, but its future looks bright. An Aussie kids coding organisation successfully broke a world record on Tuesday, bringing nearly 30,000...
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Australia is actively positioning itself to lead the world in driverless car technology and provide testing ground for new innovations. New trials of driverless technology along with accompanying legislative...
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The CSIRO’s data branch Data61 was paid nearly $150,000 for its work on the government’s much-maligned RoboDebt program across three separate contracts, according to questions on notice from the...
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Australian enterprise is facing a fresh wave of innovation and automation that could replace more than half the current human workforce in some sectors of the economy. An online...
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Larry Marshall is having an each way bet on the future – investing in the CSIRO’s pure research initiatives while looking to spend $200 million on start ups through...
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The Opposition will vote against the government’s welfare drug testing legislation, leaving the future of the controversial scheme in serious doubt. A Labor caucus meeting on Monday decided to...