February
Australia’s critical slide in R&D is now a national emergency
In a world reshaping through emerging technologies, the nation needs to put innovation at the centre of its competitive DNA to set up its fortunes for decades.
DeepSeek is a sign of China’s structural shift, not decline
Contrary to the narrative that China’s private sector has been squeezed into irrelevance, major developments in new industries are being led by young entrepreneurs.
November 2024
This start-up grew by 2300pc in a year
Blake Thompson, who says he was once a little “off the rails”, and his business partner pulled in revenue growth over 2300 per cent.
July 2024
Aussie who says he invented bitcoin faces UK crime probe
Australian inventor Craig Wright has claimed for a decade that he created bitcoin but now faces perjury allegations in a UK criminal court.
June 2024
1pc of your super for venture capital? Add it to the list
Everyone wants a piece of the $3.9 trillion super system and now we can add venture capital. The problem is, it is not the government’s money to redirect.
March 2024
Research we’re watching: pancreatic cancer, dementia, Arctic ice
We look at recent research in: pancreatic cancer; three-dimensional processors; an ice-free Arctic; a dementia breakthrough; and a new cash crop for Australia.
February 2024
How one woman’s mission to harvest water from the air is changing lives
Beth Koigi’s 30 solar-powered atmospheric water generators already produce more than 200,000 litres a month for people facing extreme water scarcity in Kenya. Now Rolex has stepped up to help.
January 2024
The Silicon Valley founder-CEO is no longer untouchable
As profitability once again becomes a priority, the pendulum is swinging back, at least a little bit, toward the professional CEO.
December 2023
Aussie company Quasar joins the global satellite space race
Defence forces and commercial companies are seeking way to improve the tracking of space traffic.
June 2023
Former Test quick wants to help you cut your energy bill
For Intellihub – the smart meter company owned by Brookfield and PEP – it’s part of a broad push to ramp up demand management of “behind the meter” resources.
March 2023
Up close and personal with the very first life that moved on Earth
The Australian technology studio Sandpit is breathing life into everything from 500-million-year-old fossils to an Adelaide festival show and Shakespeare’s home.
January 2023
VicTrack boss still mysteriously absent
The Victorian government is mum about the future of its top rail agency executive, Campbell Rose, despite the VicTrack boss being “on leave” for most of 2022 amid the failure of a bridge monitoring venture, Eloque.
November 2022
Victoria’s failed Eloque venture with Xerox liquidated
Victoria’s $50 million bridge monitoring joint venture, Eloque, will have no cash left to return to taxpayers, corporate filings have confirmed.
October 2022
VicTrack writes off shares in failed Eloque joint venture
Some $14 million worth of shares issued by Victoria’s failed $50 million joint venture, Eloque, have been written down to zero as the Andrews government tries to mop up the costs of the collapsed technology experiment.
September 2022
Dan Andrews asked to explain Eloque’s ‘funny money’
The sudden collapse of the Victorian government’s $50 million Eloque joint venture with US company Xerox is a ‘a case study in funny money, crooked processes and secrecy’, the state’s Liberal opposition has claimed.
Victoria’s Xerox venture ‘burnt through’ taxpayer dollars
The Victorian government will remove sensors from dozens of the state’s bridges after spending $16 million of taxpayers’ money to install them following the collapse of a joint venture with Xerox.
August 2022
How Issey Miyake inspired Steve Jobs’ signature style
The Japanese designer, who died this month aged 84, was fascinated by technology and innovation. So, too, was the late Apple founder.
BeReal: the new social media app taking Gen Z by storm
BeReal has been topping the charts for most downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store.
May 2022
Bitcoin’s Aussie ‘founder’ on why the crypto pretenders will go bust
Craig Wright has made few friends with his claim to be the currency’s inventor and his $60 trillion courtroom crusade against rivals. So, who is he, really?
April 2022
The radical plan to get tech founders to give away more money
While philanthropy is rising in Australia, it’s not keeping pace with the rise in wealth. Daniel Petre, Antonia Ruffell and Peter Winneke aim to change that.