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Telstra links with Musk’s Starlink for satellite texts

Telstra customers will be able to send and receive text messages outside mobile coverage areas after the telco partnered with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX to send the texts via its...

Research blockers keep govt data sharing scheme grounded

University researchers are still unable to access the government’s data sharing regime three years in, warning “opaque and time-consuming” access rules are slowing their work. Non-university medical research institutions...

No quick fix for our broken system of research funding

It is worth digging a little deeper into the important contribution that Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and UNSW Scientia Professor of Economics Richard Holden made in their National Press...

AWS contracts near $300m after federal mega-deal

Federal government agencies have struck contracts worth almost $300 million with Amazon Web Services following the arrival of the renegotiated whole of government agreement. Amid transparency concerns over the...

Quantum Brilliance expands footprint to Japan

Australian quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance has expanded its footprint to Japan after being selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s foreign business subsidy program. With the support of Kiraboshi...

Business Council calls for action to accelerate AI adoption

Australia’s peak business lobby has called on government to accelerate national efforts to bake productivity-enhancing artificial intelligence systems into the economy. The Business Council of Australia has released a...

Google says it will appeal online search antitrust decision

Alphabet’s Google on Saturday said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition than the 10-year regime...

Health department’s software SNAFU laid bare

The federal Health department has been locked in a year-and-a-half long legal battle over whether it owns software developed by subcontractors, after the consultancy that sat in the middle...

The Gig Guide: Innovation advocate bows out of WA Parliament

Western Australian independent Wilson Tucker has farewelled the Legislative Council after a four-year term that saw him pushing for smarter innovation and tech policy. A former software engineer, Mr...

Aussie AI statrtup raises US$1.5m pre-seed funding

Australian startup Heatseeker AI has raised US$1.5 million (A$2.3 million) in pre-seed funding from US investors at a “pivotal moment” in the multi-billion dollar market research industry. The oversubscribed...