While Australians were celebrating the arrival of 2021, off the coast of eastern Australia the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor was busy mapping the seabed with a drone for a hugely ambitious global project, Seabed 2030, to produce a definitive...
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The changes to critical national infrastructure regulation in relation to cyber security will need a coordinated, Australia-wide communications campaign that embraces small and medium sized companies in order to...
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Regional businesses are significant contributors to Australia’s economy but must contend with many challenges from which their metropolitan area counterparts are largely spared: fire, drought, flood and, most recently,...
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Smaller suppliers of technology goods and services are increasingly finding themselves between a rock and a hard place when contractual agreements turn sour. In any commercial agreement there is...
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Sovereignty issues have shifted into the spotlight across a number of sectors in Australia due to the supply chain challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This should raise important...
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Ada Lovelace, the daughter of poet Lord Byron and collaborator with mechanical computer pioneer Charles Babbage, is credited with being the world’s first computer programmer. Lawyer and writer Lizzie...
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Cyber risk, the likelihood of data loss or business disruption resulting from a cyber-attack, is now seen by Australian organisations as one of the biggest risks they face, according...
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Whether it’s driving a car, making a medical diagnosis by referencing a database of historical cases, finding potential new drugs, or playing chess, artificial intelligence is increasingly performing tasks...
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Organisations across the board are slow to recognise that the data that is now fundamental to their operations has also opened them up to huge risks and vulnerabilities. As...
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In 2019, Elon Musk announced he hoped to implant a two-way communication device into a human brain in 2020. He didn’t. The US Federal Drug Administration won’t let him,...
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Earlier this year IP Australia rejected a patent application from Dabus. The problem: Dabus is not human, it is artificial artificial intelligence software that had come up with something...
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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” chanted the witches in Macbeth, meaning that appearances can be deceptive: things can differ from how they appear. And our idea of...
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So great is the shortage of cybersecurity skills in Australia that organisations have no hope of recruiting the people they need and must instead resort to casting a wider...
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It is estimated that Australia will need an additional 6.5 million newly-skilled and reskilled digital workers by 2025 to meet future demand for technology skills, a 79 per cent...