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How AI can shape university courses and what students should study to help them get the jobs they want

Tomas Trescak - October 12, 2021 4 MIN READ

Graduates entering an ever-more-competitive job market are often unaware of the skills and values they offer employers. The challenge is greater with emerging job roles that require certifications and both multidisciplinary skills and specialist knowledge, even for entry-level positions. We seek to empower our graduates and maximise their career prospects. New research has enabled us… Read more »

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SafetyCulture backs video analytics startup in $8 million series A

Simon Thomsen - September 6, 2021 2 MIN READ

Video analytics platform Unleash live has raised $8 million in a series A round led by tech unicorn SafetyCulture. The five-year-old tech startup’s ‘Intelligent Remote Vision’ enables companies to improve productivity and safety, as well as reducing costs by using real-time video analytics to transform visual inspections. Roger Allen’s Patagorang Investment Group was among the… Read more »

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How open banking and consumer data rights are set to transform our lives

Ross Buckley - August 26, 2021 3 MIN READ

There’s a revolution under way in commerce. Within five years, the consumer data right will have transformed competition and simplified the way we live. Yet most of us know little about it, or think it is restricted to banking. It’s the brainchild of former Productivity Commission chief Peter Harris and Scott Morrison when he was… Read more »

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A deal between Australia’s governments to share data nationally has privacy experts worried

Casey Tonkin, Information Age - August 18, 2021 4 MIN READ

State, territory, and federal governments have agreed to the first national data sharing program that will ease the movement of data between jurisdictions. The formation of the Australian Data Network follows an intergovernmental data sharing agreement signed by the National Cabinet in early July which commits Australian state, territorial and federal governments to share data with one… Read more »

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Queensland construction empire BMD bets $1 million on AI-based project management startup Octant

Simon Thomsen - August 17, 2021 2 MIN READ

Queensland construction and engineering conglomerate BMD Group has backed Brisbane artificial intelligence startup Octant AI, investing nearly $1 million for a 10% stake. Octant uses AI to for predictive analysis aimed at reducing uncertainty in projects to manage costs. BMD CEO Scott Power said his company had been using the tech platform in its project… Read more »

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Open banking 1 year on: how Australia’s new world of data is changing finance

Jill Berry - August 4, 2021 3 MIN READ

Just over a year into the Consumer Data Right (CDR) regime and Australia is now beginning to understand the competitive advantage this new world of data can offer. Designed to give consumers greater access and ownership over their own data to increase competition, CDR has first been introduced to banking, to be followed by energy… Read more »

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Investigation finds Uber ‘interfered’ with the privacy of 1.2 million Australians following 2016 cyber attack

Simon Thomsen - July 27, 2021 3 MIN READ

A three-year investigation into a cyber attack that stole data from Uber belonging to 1.2 million Australia has found that the US tech company failed to act appropriately in response and paid the cyber criminals responsible a bug bounty for the breach. Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk’s review said Uber “interfered” with the privacy of around… Read more »

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AI startup Sourse lands $1.5 million to take the gut feel out of executive decisions

Simon Thomsen - July 7, 2021 2 MIN READ

Machine learning startup SourseAI has raised $1.5 million to help bosses make fewer calls based on their gut feeling. The round was led by Aligned Equity and TV and radio company Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), making its second investment in an AI-based analytics startup after backing spoken word analysis venture Sonnant earlier this year. The… Read more »

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Data fintech Adatree signs 20 bank deal to drive open banking

Simon Thomsen - July 1, 2021 2 MIN READ

The roll out the open banking under the Consumer Data Right (CDR) is set to have a major boost 12 months after its launch with 20 Australian banks and credit unions set to join in a partnership with data fintech Adatree. July 1 marks the first anniversary of CDR and a year on, there are… Read more »

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Here’s why your phone doesn’t have to listen to your conversations to know exactly what’s going on

Dana Rezazadegan - June 30, 2021 4 MIN READ

Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the next day? If so, you may have wondered whether your smartphone was “listening” to you. But is it really? Well, it’s no coincidence the item you’d been interested in was the same… Read more »

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RMIT scientists have developed AI to diagnose Covid-19 from a cough – and hope to make it a mobile app

Simon Thomsen - June 21, 2021 2 MIN READ

Ground-breaking research by computer scientists at RMIT University has developed an artificial intelligence model that can hear the effects of Covid-19 in the sound of a forced cough, even when people are asymptomatic. While the idea is not new, scientists at Cambridge University and MIT have been investigating the concept, the work at RMIT’s School… Read more »

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Police accessing QR code data from the SafeWA app undermines public trust in privacy

Tama Leaver - June 18, 2021 3 MIN READ

QR code contact-tracing apps are a crucial part of our defence against COVID-19. But their value depends on being widely used, which in turn means people using these apps need to be confident their data won’t be misused. That’s why this week’s revelation that Western Australian police accessed data gathered using the SafeWA app is… Read more »

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An overwhelming number of Australians don’t trust artificial intelligence

Simon Thomsen - June 11, 2021 2 MIN READ

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in tech is set to become ubiquitous over the next decade, but getting consumers to embrace products that use it will be a major issue for startups with nearly three-quarters of Australians suspicious of AI. The only thing playing in favour of startups using AI is that most people… Read more »

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CSIRO VC fund Main Sequence backs $3 million series A for communications compliance startup

Simon Thomsen - June 9, 2021 2 MIN READ

Canberra-based communications compliance software startup Castlepoint Systems has raised a $3 million series A led by Main Sequence Ventures. The CSIRO’s deep tech investment fund was joined by existing investor IxTx in the round. Castlepoint’s software uses artificial intelligence to automatically discover, classify, and control documents, emails, chat messages, databases, or webpages in a company… Read more »

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How busting organised crime globally was done with an app born ‘over a few beers’ with the FBI

David Tuffley - June 9, 2021 4 MIN READ

Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years in the making, catching major international crime figures using an encrypted app. More than 200 underworld figures in Australia have been charged in what Australian Federal Police (AFP) say is their biggest-ever organised crime bust. The operation, led by the… Read more »

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