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Woolworths, Westpac funds back controversial $500m anti-crime start-up
Auror’s use of AI technology to help retailers track criminals led to an Information Commissioner investigation, but investors aren’t worried.
- Paul Smith
$85k a year wasn’t worth this influencer’s childhood
PR maven Roxy Jacenko says she regrets letting her daughter Pixie Curtis have a public social media account, despite the income it generated.
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- Amelia McGuire
ESSSuper takes Iress to court claiming tax mistakes cost it members
The ASX-listed software firm allegedly gave the Australian Taxation Office the wrong information about its $37 billion superannuation fund client.
- Amelia McGuire
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Fintech offering $8m bridging loans in minutes gets $250m Citi backing
Bridgit uses AI to approve loans for those looking to buy their next home before their existing one has sold. It claims an average approval time of about four hours.
- Paul Smith
Feeling lonely? You’re probably making 3 mistakes
Technology and loneliness are interlinked, stoked by the ways we interact with social media, text messaging and binge-watching. Here are some solutions
- Brian X. Chen
TSMC stops advanced chip shipments to Chinese customers
The Taiwanese maker of most of the world’s cutting-edge computer chips discovered that one of its products ended up in a processor made by Chinese telco Huawei.
- Meaghan Tobin and Ana Swanson
Opinion & Analysis
This new tablet is perfect for Netflix and so much more
The Galaxy Tab S10 has a ton of new AI features – and they’re not all as useless as you might expect.
Columnist
Social media age ban is good for kids and parents
Labor’s move to now run hard on the issue of young peoples’ safety online will resonate with millions of average mums and dads.
Editorial
Trump’s social network deserted but the party rages on elsewhere
Donald Trump’s army of Australian Truthers are well into their victory lap – everywhere other than his own dedicated social network.
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Can technology actually improve your sleep?
We’ve just spent 11 weeks testing the Eight Sleep’s Pod 4 mattress cover to find out. Sleeping on the job has never been so cool.
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This new tablet is perfect for Netflix and so much more
The Galaxy Tab S10 has a ton of new AI features – and they’re not all as useless as you might expect.
- John Davidson
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Digital Life
Apple launches our favourite gadget of 2024
The new Mac mini is tiny, fast, cheap and brilliant. What more could you ask for, after a year of underwhelming AI?
- John Davidson
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This new tablet is perfect for Netflix and so much more
The Galaxy Tab S10 has a ton of new AI features – and they’re not all as useless as you might expect.
- John Davidson
Yesterday
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Digital Life
Apple launches our favourite gadget of 2024
The new Mac mini is tiny, fast, cheap and brilliant. What more could you ask for, after a year of underwhelming AI?
- John Davidson
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Australia’s rocket industry reaches a crucial inflection point
Local space entrepreneurs are attempting to take a slice of SpaceX’s business, as demand for launch services far outweighs supply.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Social media age ban is good for kids and parents
Labor’s move to now run hard on the issue of young peoples’ safety online will resonate with millions of average mums and dads.
- The AFR View
Canberra takes on big tech – and Gen Alpha – with social media bans
All Australians could be forced to register official identity documents with social media giants to prove they are over the age of 16.
- Paul Smith
How a ‘family smartphone’ can help keep kids off social media
No one has a landline any more, but one Brisbane family has found benefits in sharing a spare smartphone.
- Tess Bennett
- Analysis
- US election
Trump’s social network deserted but the party rages on elsewhere
Donald Trump’s army of Australian Truthers are well into their victory lap – everywhere other than his own dedicated social network.
- Amelia McGuire
Metigy founder charged after using company money to buy luxury homes
The boss of now collapsed AI start-up Metigy has been charged with misleading conduct after allegedly using company money to buy the properties for $18 million.
- Amelia McGuire
Australian AI start-up founder accused of faking financials in US
Baba Nadimpalli has been accused of providing fake bank statements and falsifying revenue numbers to investors by the US corporate regulator.
- Max Mason
Music industry brass throw weight behind talent booking platform
An online platform that fashions itself as the future marketplace and booking platform for top Aussie talent is rounding the final week of its $2 million raise.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Forager fundie seeks to spill ASX tech minnow’s board
Forager Funds’ Steve Johnson has written to Bigtincan’s shareholders urging them to deliver a second strike on executive pay and block a SPAC takeover.
- Tess Bennett
‘Harming our kids’: PM announces social media ban for under-16s
In a potential early flashpoint with Trump ally Elon Musk, the government will bring in big fines for social media companies that break the proposed laws.
- Paul Smith
Profits slump at workplace unicorn Deputy after hiring spree
The company makes software used by workers to manage their rosters. Its valuation topped $1 billion this year after an investment from a US labour hire firm.
- Tess Bennett
Game on! $16b CDC Data Centres posts IMs, calls for bids by Christmas
Naturally, the first port of call would be the long list of infrastructure investors who are still nursing broken hearts after missing out on AirTrunk.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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Meet the ‘super users’ who tap AI to get ahead at work
Workers say using artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT every day supercharges their efforts and saves them time on the job.
- Danielle Abril
The top five billionaire tech bros who are on the Trump train
From fawning phone calls to huge donations, here’s how the historically progressive bosses of Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI are preparing.
- Amelia McGuire
Salter Brothers zero in on Brisbane telco reseller; launches raise
Street Talk understands the Melbourne-based technology fund has entered into exclusive terms for a 100 per cent acquisition of Bigblu Broadband’s SkyMesh.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Gadgets With John Davidson
- Opinion
Can technology actually improve your sleep?
We’ve just spent 11 weeks testing the Eight Sleep’s Pod 4 mattress cover to find out. Sleeping on the job has never been so cool.
- John Davidson
