Technology

Elon Musk’s antics and a rapidly evolving market aren’t helping the company that bought us the cybertruck, as sales drive off a cliff.

Tesla refresh fails to reverse EV sales slide

Elon Musk’s antics and the rapidly evolving market aren’t helping the electric vehicle company.

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Microsoft is trimming its workforce with its video game business Xbox and other divisions impacted

Microsoft set to lay off thousands of workers

Microsoft have announced that thousands of employees will lose their jobs in a move to ensure ‘enduring success’.

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Experts say the details stolen in the cyber attack could make Qantas customers vulnerable to scams. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Qantas customers sent frightening email after data breach

Millions of Qantas customers are beginning to find out if their data was exposed in a major cyber attack.

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Big business have been targeted in a wave of cyber attacks.

Qantas hack a wake-up call that no one is safe

EDITORIAL: Our national airline is the latest big Australian company to fall prey to a malicious cyber attack. 

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Technology is showing positive signs in the battle against male infertility.

AI gives birth to fresh hope against male infertility

A world-first trial in Australia is using AI to transform IVF success rates for couples facing the most severe male infertility.

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Robot and human compete for work.

Productivity crisis? Artifical intelligence may be the fix

JACKSON HEWETT: OpenAI says AI could rescue Australia’s productivity slump, but only if we invest, train and trust.

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Labor’s Tim Ayres says Australia needs to get with the AI times.

Don’t let job fears hold Australia back from AI: Minister

Labor Minister Tim Ayres says we should embrace cutting-edge AI in the workplace, urging the country to adapt with the times.

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Deepfake apps are being used to humiliate and bully children, the eSafety Commissioner says.

Surge in deepfake images targeting school girls sparks alarm

Reports of deepfake abuse targeting underage Australians are rising fast, with warnings it’s far worse than we know.

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One of the Big Four banks is fighting scammers with bots that talk back with Aussie accents.

Major bank deploys Aussie accent AI bots to trap scammers

One of the Big Four banks is fighting scammers with bots that talk back – complete with Aussie accents and a knack for pointless small talk.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp.

AI tech giant becomes world’s most valuable company

AI chipmaker Nvidia’s shares have reached a record on the US stock exchange for the first time since January, making it the largest company in the world by market cap. 

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The Washington Post: Artificial intelligence has been a game changer for ‘death-clock’ style longevity predictors.

What I’ve learnt from knowing when I’ll die

The Washington Post: Artificial intelligence has been a game changer for longevity predictors.

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E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has called on the Communications Minister Annika Wells not to exempt YouTube in the social media age ban. NewsWire/ Aaron Francis

Call for YouTube to be banned for under 16s

The online safety tsar has called on YouTube not to be excluded from the under 16s social media ban, which is set to come into effect from December.

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A powerful new telescope nestled high in the Chilean Andes has taken its first glimpse of the cosmos.

See stunning images from world’s most powerful space camera

With 3200 megapixels and a mission to scan the sky every 40 seconds, the Vera Rubin Observatory is set to transform space discovery.

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THE ECONOMIST: Mark Zuckerberg owner is throwing ‘insane amounts of money at people’ to achieve his Artificial Intelligence ambitions.

Facebook’s megaspend to beat chatGPT in AI arms race

THE ECONOMIST: The Facebook owner is throwing throwing ‘insane amounts of money at people’ to achieve his Artificial Intelligence ambitions.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Is there a safest seat in a plane crash? We asked experts.

Is there a safest seat in a plane crash? We asked experts

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Suddenly, airline passengers around the world are wondering if there is something special about Seat 11A. That’s where the sole survivor of the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash was sitting.

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