What skills do we need on the cybersecurity front line? 2021 Cyber Security Special Report Professor Chris Leckie and his colleagues rarely find themselves struggling for inspiration when it comes to research projects. “I often joke that cybersecurity is a
Partner Content Building digital trust to build Australia’s digital economy November 16, 2021 By Synergy Group Steve Jobs recruited the CEO of Pepsi in 1983 by asking him, “Do you want to sell sugar-water the rest of your life? Or do
How we need to prepare workers for jobs of the future October 26, 2021 By Stephen Corby 2021 Future of Work Special Report The pandemic has forced many people out of their jobs. Others have been asked to reassess their career. Some roles have simply ceased to exist.
The AUKUS agenda: domestic and international partnership implications beyond submarines September 21, 2021 By Michael Shoebridge 2021 Mandarin Defence Special Report Nuclear-powered submarines are clearly at the heart of the new trilateral AUKUS security partnership prime minister Scott Morrison announced last week along with US president
Australia lacks coordinated digital strategy, report states September 2, 2021 By Tom Ravlic Communications & Technology Australia is unlikely to be a stellar digital economy by 2030 if governments across the country continue to have no strategy, policy or leadership, according
Promising COVID vaccine developed in Australia gets green light for human clinical trials August 16, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal The results of a peer-reviewed study of a new SARS-CoV-19 vaccine developed by scientists from Flinders University was published in the journal Vaccine on Thursday.
Premium Insights and analysis Killer flying robots are here. What do we do now? July 9, 2021 By Vivek Wadhwa Defence In the popular Terminator movies, a relentless super-robot played by Arnold Schwarzenegger tracks and attempts to kill human targets. It was pure science fiction in
Partner Content Need data urgently transformed into insight and intelligence? Not all platforms are equal… July 7, 2021 By Phillip Malcolm Refinitiv deals in data. Through the best data gathering technology we: source, curate, manage and update thousands of data sources. If there’s one question every
Government launches first AI action plan June 21, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The federal government has unveiled its first action plan dedicated to establishing Australia as a global leader in developing and adopting responsible artificial intelligence (AI).
AHRC calls for establishment of AI safety commissioner May 30, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The Australian Human Rights Commission has developed a roadmap to ensure the public and private sectors safeguard human rights when designing, developing and using new
EU is cracking down on AI, but leaves a loophole for mass surveillance April 22, 2021 By Bernd Carsten Stahl Communications & Technology The EU looks set to ban some of the most concerning forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as the “social credit” surveillance system used in
Promoted Artificial Intelligence: Current state of play April 13, 2021 By Tim Timchur Well, it looks like the science fiction writers had some surprisingly accurate crystal balls to predict what life would be like over 50 years into
#DeepNostalgia – how animating portraits with an AI app is both bolstering and undoing historic painted lies March 12, 2021 By Madeleine Pelling The AI family history portrait app MyHeritage allows users to animate photographs from the past. Run a document through the app and it will seemingly
Technology threatens to widen the STEM gender gap March 8, 2021 By MJ Salier Career Matters Women have long been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations and, while the arrival of technologies such as AI and 5G bring