Gilmour Space Technologies says its Bowen Orbital Spaceport facility has largely escaped any damage from tropical cyclone Kirrily, which is wreaking havoc in parts of Queensland, and would not...
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Industry groups have just under two weeks to apply for a share of $10.8 million in grant funding to deliver advisory services to innovative small to medium-sized enterprises under...
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Sydney-based AMSL Aero has secured its first civil customer for its fully electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, referred to as Vertiia. The aircraft manufacturer on Monday announced it...
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Professor Emily Hilder has been appointed the permanent head of the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator, the Defence accelerator charged with supercharging defence innovation in Australia. Professor Hilder, who has...
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Treasury will soon open a consultation process on the government’s plan to crack down on anti-competitive conduct by digital platforms with what is expected to be an ex ante...
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Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company’s PRIME study, approved by the...
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“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome. If you have a dumb incentive, you get a dumb outcome.” It’s the most famous public quip of Charlie...
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Former Liberal assistant minister for innovation Wyatt Roy is off to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be crowned sector head of innovation for its planned urban development, Neom....
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A standalone hydrogen act is being considered in Queensland to regulate new production and storage facilities as a part of the state’s plans to become a global exporter. On...
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A handful of tech firms and the big four consultancies together donated almost $1.4 million to Australia’s major political parties last year, according to newly released figures which have reignited...
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The Productivity Commission believes Australia is not well positioned to produce its own advanced artificial intelligence models and doubts the productivity benefits of “activist government ‘sponsorship’” across the AI...
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The National Disability Insurance Agency is still investigating its officials’ role in a $126 million Salesforce software contract after questions about the supplier’s influence on them and a “bizarre”...
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As soon as the Prime Minister was caught on the back-foot during an interview on Radio National about the slow progress in getting the National Reconstruction Fund ready to...
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Digital ID is shaping up as the next data localisation battleground, with the Tech Council of Australia arguing proposed rules requiring onshore hosting for the scheme will do nothing...