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....
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The department secretary in charge of the robodebt welfare debacle at its height Kathryn Campbell has been demoted from the ranks of top mandarins as part of Prime Minister...
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South Australia’s innovation district Lot Fourteen has unveiled a landmark sculpture by local artist Sundari Carmody, one of several art installations commissioned for the area. ‘One: all that we...
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Four South Australian space companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the launch of a rocket and spacecraft carrying an interfaced electronic warfare payload. ATSpace, Inovor Technologies,...
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Pioneering Australian deep tech startup Silicon Quantum Computing has claimed a breakthrough by creating the world’s first integrated circuit manufactured at an atomic scale. The quantum processor allowed the...
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Serious issues in the Home Affairs department’s governance and enforcement of critical infrastructure protection have been exposed by the National Audit Office, which identified deficiencies in compliance activities, risk...