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Mining tech startup Plotlogic closes $43m Series B round

Brisbane-based mining tech startup Plotlogic has raised $43 million in a Series B funding round to continue its expansion into North America and boost investment in R&D, as demand...

WA to trial vanadium battery utility storage

Horizon Power in Western Australia will be the first utility company in Australia to begin trialling the use of a vanadium redox flow battery. The state-owned energy company has...

Sue Keay on Australian robotics and remote automation

Until Australia can articulate a vision for “where we want to be” in terms of building a domestic robotics industry, “we’re never going to get there,” according to the...

Space elevated in Australia-US military alliance

Australia and the United States are deepening ties on space, agreeing on Saturday to add the domain to the nations’ military alliance. The addition means Australian and US forces...

Australia’s economic complexity ranking now behind Uganda

Australia’s international ranking in economic complexity has fallen again, with the country now sat at 93 out of 133 countries in an index produced by Harvard University researchers. The...

Actionable data insights for government

Private sector suppliers to government have long understood the benefit of using research and data intelligence specialist firms to drag meaningful insights from public sector procurement data. But there...

CSIRO taps Dell for cluster AI upgrade

Dell has won CSIRO’s $15 million contract to replace the science agency’s GPU cluster to better handle artificial intelligence and machine learning. The new cluster is expected to be...

Gig Guide: Payments System Board gains new members

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board has two new appointments, while Australian Consumer and Competition Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has been reappointed to the board for a...

Big, old, donating companies win more govt contracts: Report

Large incumbent companies that donate to Australia’s political parties are winning a disproportionate share of government tenders, according to new research into the explosion of contracting over the last...