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Joseph LamAudience growth producer

Joseph Lam is an audience producer, responsible for growing readership and amplifying The Australian’s journalism across multiple platforms. Based in Sydney, he has previously been the masthead’s technology journalist, general news reporter and digital producer. Joe is from Central Queensland and joined the national daily in 2019, having trained as a combat engineer in the ADF. Follow his work on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook @editorialjoe

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exclusiveTechnology

Digital Health SA's chief clinical information officer Rhys Parker and chief medical information officer Dr Santosh Verghese. Photo: Supplied,

‘Fake’ patients from real people fast tracking research

In an Australian first, SA has developed a way to create fictional patients from real people in order to aid studies and research while ensuring the data source cannot be compromised.

Joseph Lam

start-upsTechnology

Nine25 founder Leigh Dunsford, a former co-founder of now Xero-owned business Waddle.

Waddle co-founder pivots to micro-investing project

Waddle co-founder Leigh Dunsford’s Nine25 has abandoned a money management concept over privacy concerns and after raising $1.5m is concentrating on a micro-investment offering.

Joseph Lam

artificial intelligenceTechnology

AI dating app Teaser AI, which launched in June, has already been axed by its developer, with plans to launch an AI date coaching service MILA instead. Photo: Supplied

AI-based dating app gets cold feet after just 3 months

An AI-based dating app launched in Australia less than three months ago is being shelved this week because users didn’t understand how it worked.

Joseph Lam

iPhone seasonGadgets

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 12: The new iPhone 15 is displayed during an Apple event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on September 12, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Apple revealed its lineup of the latest iPhone 15 versions as well as other product upgrades during the event. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Lighter, brighter, $100 more: Is it time to swap to new iPhone?

It costs $100 more, finally has a USB-C port and you can drop it in the family pool without fear (for a little while). But is all that worth an upgrade to the iPhone 15?

Joseph Lam

Top 100 InnovatorsTechnology

Amazon Executives. The Innovators List 2023. Photography by Giuseppe Santamaria Studio.

‘A woman in tech needs to have a bit of grit’

Women are leading the charge at Amazon Australia. Meet three of the online retailing behemoth’s best and brightest who are steering the ship on our shores.

Joseph Lam

mediaMedia

ABC chair Ita Buttrose delivering a keynote address at the Women in Media national conference in Sydney. , , Photo credit: Emma Brasier/Women in Media

ABC seeks guidance from youth panel

The national broadcaster has put together a new panel of Gen Z journalists to advise its older bosses on how to reach a younger crowd.

Joseph Lam

fintechTechnology

EMBARGO 12.01AM May 18: Square will introduce AfterPay payments at its point of sales system across Australian and the US on Wednesday. Picture: Supplied

Small business wipeout as payment system crashes

A national outage of one of the nation’s leading payment terminal providers is wreaking havoc across retailers, with Square unable to say when services will be restored.

Joseph Lam

IFA BerlinTechnology

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 1: Visitors look to robots of quadruped robotics at the booth of house of robots at the 2023 IFA consumer electronics and home appliances trade fair on September 1, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. IFA, which first took place in 1924, is among the world's leading trade fairs of its kind and will run until September 5. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

No more waiting: The bartender making 100 drinks an hour

Mechanical bartenders, solar pool-cleaning robots, smart prefabricated homes and dial-up fragrances aren’t just a fantasy – they’ve been unveiled at one of the world’s biggest tech fairs.

Joseph Lam

TechnologyTechnology

Samsung Australia's vice president of consumer electronics Jeremy Senior. Picture: Ken Leanfore

What it really means when a gadget uses AI

AI has spread into your kitchen, your lounge room and even your bedroom. But what are the devices which claim to use the technology actually doing?

Joseph Lam

technologyTechnology

Sad woman looking into her empty fridge with no groceries; household appliances at home generic

Ask the AI fridge what’s for lunch. It knows how many calories

One of the world’s largest electronics brands is using fridges and ovens to measure nutrition and combining it with steps counted on mobile phones.

Joseph Lam

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