By now, most of us are aware social media companies collect vast amounts of our information. By doing this, they can target us with ads and monetise our attention....
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Amazon is offering to halt the online selling and marketing practices in Europe that regulators allege are anti-competitive, hoping to bring an end to a two-year investigation and avoid...
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The long running review of Australia’s privacy law will present a final report to government by the end of the year, as new Attorney General Mark Dreyfus seeks to...
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Social media giant Meta’s top executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will be questioned for more than five hours each in depositions on their role in the Cambridge Analytica...
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The Industry department has brought in a handful of consultants from global giant Deloitte to help manage the removal of an ageing oil vessel floating on the Timor Sea...
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The Australian Digital Health Agency’s mandated move out of a Chinese owned data centre cost more than $27 million and is running late, missing the government’s deadline for a...
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Aerospace giant Airbus will be the lead partner for Defence’s space research program, aimed at ensuring Australian forces have assured access to satellite services. Adelaide space companies Inovor Technologies...
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Australia faces its “most complex” strategic circumstance since the Second World War, Defence minister Richard Marles said Wednesday, urging Australia’s researchers to form more partnerships that build technological capabilities...
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb highlighted the importance of collaboration in the fight against scams and outlined the regulator’s three-pronged approach to make Australia the world’s...
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Octopus Investments Australia has closed its $10 billion renewable energy investment platform for institutional and wholesale investors, with investments from superannuation firm Hostplus and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation....
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub in Brisbane is the first independent manufacturing innovation hub in Australia to receive approved research institute status, two years after its establishment. The...
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Forty policy thinkers from across the Australian tech and innovation ecosystems have contributed more than 70,000 words to The Innovation Papers projects to be published in a newspaper format...
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Screen Australia has awarded more than $4 million worth of grants to fund development on tens of indie video game titles through the Games: Expansion Pack Fund. Initially announced...
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Dozens of technology suppliers gathered in Sydney on Tuesday for a state government roundtable on “innovative procurement pathways”. The meeting is part of a push for the New South...