Co-working space and digital startup network Fishburners has appointed tech and venture capital veteran Alan Jones as its interim chief executive officer. Mr Jones’ began his experience as a...
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The US space agency NASA has completed its first commercial space launch from Australia late on Sunday, the first of three rockets planned for launch from the Arnhem Space...
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The awarding of $160 million worth of contracts to delivery partners under the Industry department’s Entrepreneurs’ Programme was “deficient in significant respects”, with large incumbents given unfair advantages and...
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As quantum technologies promise to disrupt conventional computing and its underlying semiconductor industry, a Sydney company’s world first offers a chance for Australia to straddle the change while pushing...
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South Australian conservation and environmental protection groups have maintained their opposition to Southern Launch’s proposed launch complex at Whalers Way, with a petition to be submitted to the state’s...
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Microsoft is ending access for new customers to its facial analysis capabilities immediately and is restricting access to its facial recognition technology as the company introduced upgraded responsible AI...
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Partner content: The last two years of pandemic lockdowns and instability have required a rapid shift in the way everyone works, from the smallest family-owned company to giant government...
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There are heightened concerns about a repeat of the robodebt scandal as welfare recipients prepare for an increase in the use of automation in government decision-making through the imminent...
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Newly installed Industry and Science minister Ed Husic has a point to make about the co-investment model that brings government, business and institutional research together to solve challenges and...
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A small team of physicists in Sydney have been lauded as “national heroes” by new Science and Industry minister Ed Husic after they revealed a quantum computing breakthrough set...
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The Victorian government will provide $100 million in pre-seed investment funding to the state’s nine universities over five years to support research commercialisation. Each university will co-design their own...
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The Western Australian Innovation and ICT Minister Stephen Dawson says the state needs at least 3,000 additional data scientists by 2030 to ensure the state’s economy remains globally competitive....
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Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific...
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found very high rates of small business complaint handling compliance by telecommunications companies in Australia following the completion of its six-month audit....