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Translators tipped to be replaced by AI within three years
Machine translation is advancing rapidly, although interpreting meaning rather than just words and sentences remains a daunting task.
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- The Economist
I’ve seen Amazon’s drone delivery future. The public may hate it
A visit to the e-commerce giant’s overhauled delivery program in Arizona left me impressed but sceptical that the public will welcome the flying machines.
- Kevin Roose
‘Unicorn’ tech firm spent $43m to buy its founder’s other company
Heavily backed HR technology firm Employment Hero paid $43.4 million for a company owned by its co-founder Ben Thompson, a new regulatory filing has revealed.
- Tess Bennett
Denholm on Musk: He’s entitled to his opinion, I’m entitled to mine
Robyn Denholm rose from obscurity to become the highest-profile Australian in business. But overseeing the world’s richest man as Tesla chair is no easy thing.
- Paul Smith
Aussie bitcoin maverick avoids jail time. If he keeps his head down
A UK court gave Craig Wright, who has claimed he invented bitcoin, a one-year jail term for contempt. But his sentence was suspended for two years.
- Hans van Leeuwen
PE-backed Australian tech firm swallows ASX minnow
The chief executive of Humanforce says its $17.2 million acquisition will complete its suite of human resources software.
- Tess Bennett
Opinion & Analysis
Wall Street needs to prepare for an AI winter
Technology companies are struggling to conjure the great leaps in capability that had been expected, and more meaningful revenue may not come until 2026.
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These were our favourite gadgets of 2024
Last year might have been the year AI made it into the public consciousness, but 2024 was when the new technology made it into devices.
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The age of AI has dawned – and so has ‘AI-washing’
Akin to “greenwashing”, this occurs when companies falsely claim their products or services use artificial intelligence, to appear more advanced than they are.
Tech risk expert
This $25,000 TV breaks the extreme barrier
The Hisense 110″UX isn’t just four times bigger and four times brighter than many of the best TVs on the market. It’s four times more everything.
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These were our favourite gadgets of 2024
Last year might have been the year AI made it into the public consciousness, but 2024 was when the new technology made it into devices.
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- John Davidson
- Gadgets With John Davidson
This $25,000 TV breaks the extreme barrier
The Hisense 110″UX isn’t just four times bigger and four times brighter than many of the best TVs on the market. It’s four times more everything.
- John Davidson
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Wall Street needs to prepare for an AI winter
Technology companies are struggling to conjure the great leaps in capability that had been expected, and more meaningful revenue may not come until 2026.
- Dave Lee
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- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Review
These were our favourite gadgets of 2024
Last year might have been the year AI made it into the public consciousness, but 2024 was when the new technology made it into devices.
- John Davidson
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Digital Life
This beige box will transform your TV
If sky-high mortgage repayments have you thinking you might skip Christmas this year, think again.
- John Davidson
This Australian bitcoin maverick faces jail. But he’s gone AWOL
A UK court ruled Craig Wright was not cryptocurrency inventor Satoshi Nakamoto and told him to stop suing people. He now faces a contempt charge.
- Hans van Leeuwen
As meme coins and bitcoin surge, NFTs have been left behind
While bitcoin has surged to fresh highs in the Trump crypto rally, the price recovery of Bored Apes and other NFT art collections has been much less pronounced.
- Tess Bennett
HMC goes on the offensive to woo market bearish on its data centres
The asset manager showed dozens of institutional investors and analysts around its major Sydney site, pointing to optimistic research to back up its plan.
- Tess Bennett
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Navigating hybrid futures: resilience in a connected age
Hybrid infrastructure - the integration of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments - is reshaping how Australian businesses operate.
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Meta settles Aussie Cambridge Analytica case for $50m
Facebook-owner Meta will appoint an independent administrator to distribute $50 million to thousands of Australians who were indirectly caught up in the 2018 data harvesting scandal.
- Tess Bennett
Private equity shop Whiteoak adds to technology streak with Avolution
Managing director Greg Garvin has led majority investment in the business architecture modelling tool.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- AI
The age of AI has dawned – and so has ‘AI-washing’
Akin to “greenwashing”, this occurs when companies falsely claim their products or services use artificial intelligence, to appear more advanced than they are.
- Sonia Haque-Vatcher
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Opinion
This $25,000 TV breaks the extreme barrier
The Hisense 110″UX isn’t just four times bigger and four times brighter than many of the best TVs on the market. It’s four times more everything.
- John Davidson
Malcolm Turnbull goes from PM to investment cyberhawk
The former OzEmail chairman is working with a company trying to reduce the need for businesses to pay cyber-ransoms, the latest in his growing tech portfolio.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- AI
How Claude became tech insiders’ chatbot of choice
AI insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
- Kevin Roose
NRL star turned Rich Lister backs Brisbane healthtech WearOptimo
WearOptimo has gathered $8 million in fresh funding to get into its go-to-market strategy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
CoreLogic sued for data scheme allegedly engaging Bill Papas’ Forum
BCI has sued its larger rival CoreLogic for scraping data and having Forum and two other parties access “confidential” information. CoreLogic says it did nothing wrong.
- Campbell Kwan
Publishers prepare to take on TikTok over news
News publishers have successfully campaigned to have TikTok-owner ByteDance included in the government’s revised media bargaining rules.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- Crime
What lies behind social media’s gleeful reaction to CEO murder
I’m 19, I can’t remember a time before apps like Instagram and TikTok, and this is why people on social media might not blink at violence.
- Daniel Cash
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
DigiCo float is a ‘ticket to the dance’ for Di Pilla
The biggest IPO of the year is all about capturing the momentum around the world’s biggest investing theme: artificial intelligence. DigiCo is now in the biggest game in town.
- James Thomson
Inside the program putting people back on the moon
One-armed robots are being trained in lunar construction as earthlings prepare to return to our satellite for the first time in 50 years – and not for days this time, but months.
- Jessica Camille Aguirre
Betashares shuts down string of ETFs, including surging metaverse fund
The asset manager said it had reviewed its ETFs and decided some had not attracted enough support. The metaverse fund only managed $8.7 million.
- Tess Bennett