Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time
Dec 16, 2018 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released the preliminary report of its Digital Platforms Inquiry, and Google and Facebook wont be happy. Rather than adopting a gently-gently approach, the ACCC has...
Why artificial intelligence is likely to take more lives
Dec 16, 2018 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Artificial neurons for deeply intelligent machines this is the new artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, led by Geoffrey Hinton and his team since 2012. That year, Hinton, an expert in cognitive science at the...
Your smartphone apps are tracking your every move – 4 essential reads
Dec 16, 2018 13:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
If you have a smartphone, it probably is a significant part of your life, storing appointments and destinations as well as being central to your communications with friends, loved ones and co-workers. Research and...
How robots are helping doctors save lives in the Canadian North
Dec 16, 2018 13:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
It is the middle of the winter and a six-month-old child is brought with acute respiratory distress to a nursing station in a remote community in the Canadian North. The nurse realizes that the child is seriously ill...
Don't worry about screen time – focus on how you use technology
Dec 16, 2018 13:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Many Americans find themselves bombarded by expert advice to limit their screen time and break their addictions to digital devices including enforcing and modeling this restraint for the children in their lives. However,...
The next great leap forward? Combining robots with the Internet of Things
Dec 16, 2018 13:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Internet of Things is a popular vision of objects with internet connections sending information back and forth to make our lives easier and more comfortable. Its emerging in our homes, through everything from...
Dec 16, 2018 12:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Two reports out this week one into the operations of Facebook and Google, the other into the competitive neutrality of the ABC and SBS present the federal government with significant policy and political...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects