Australia and the United States have signed off on a long-awaited space technology sharing agreement, giving American space companies the green light to conduct launches from Australian spaceports. The...
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Any use of artificial intelligence by government must demonstrate integrity, competence, and empathy while delivering a clear improvement in public services, according to new long-term guidance released by Finance...
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Nothing in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s $2 billion top up of critical minerals loans requires that the money goes to the value-added processing and refining operations the government campaigned...
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When Tony Fitzgibbon launched Data Zoo a decade ago, data had begun to transform the world. It was in 2006 that British mathematician Clive Humby declared that “data is...
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Industry and science minister Ed Husic has urged his federal colleagues to coordinate research and development programs more closely across portfolios to improve the effectiveness of delivering government industry...
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From a manufacturing plant 85km south of Sydney, a local startup is producing materials for the likes of Tesla, Panasonic and Samsung. Sicona Battery Technologies is commercialising a next-generation...
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Innovation has become the fourth pillar in Australia’s alliance with the United States, with the two nations announcing plans to work more closely on science and critical technologies. The...
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The federal government will spend almost $80 million connecting smaller Pacific Island nations to a new trans-Pacific subsea cable to be be built by Google between Australia and the...
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for a “method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Today these ultra-high-power lasers (UHPLs) have demonstrated many revolutionary technologies that...
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Australian quantum technology will be used to train students at TAFE and at American colleges after local firm Q-CTRL struck a deal with investors looking to take advantage of...
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A plan to bring digital Medicare cards to the Service NSW app and NSW digital drivers licences to myGov was paused earlier this year and has not resumed after...
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Another $5.5 million has been awarded to 24 university research projects in the pilot phase of Australia’s $1.6 billion research commercialisation scheme. Most of the work relates to value-adding...
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South Australia will look to turn around its manufacturing slide with a new decadal strategy that puts an emphasis on place-based innovation, value-adding and strategically important sectors like defence,...
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In 2019, the use of artificial intelligence in medical imaging was still in its infancy. The technology was plagued by error rates as high as 50 per cent, a...