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Dec 19, 2024 · In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the dead, using AI toothbrushes and confessing to an AI-powered Jesus. Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was valued at US$150 billion and claimed it was on the way to developing an advanced AI system more capable than humans.

The InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2024 celebrate the translation of Australian ideas and research into commercial success and social impact across a wide range of categories.

Oct 17, 2024 · ClearVue Technologies has raised another $7.5 million to fuel the global export ambitions for technology that can transform windows and walls into solar energy producers.. The ASX-listed company announced on Thursday that it had received “firm commitments from institutional, professional and sophisticated investors”, many of which are based in Hong Kong.

Nov 18, 2024 · Flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero has completed the first untethered test flight of its Australian designed and manufactured electric aircraft in New South Wales’ central west. The first free battery-power flight took place earlier this month, AMSL Aero announced on Monday, with the fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft taking off and landing successful more than 50 times.

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has made a $25 million equity investment in South Australian IoT and satellite communications startup Myriota as part of a broader $50 million funding round. The fresh funds will be used to further develop the company’s network technologies and infrastructure, and to scale local manufacturing of its …

Dec 17, 2024 · Australia’s first lunar rover will be designed and built by the ELO2 consortium after it beat out a bid by rival group AROSE for the $42 million in federal funding and spot on the NASA mission. The decision was announced Tuesday after 18 months of design, and secures a place for ELO2’s ‘Roo-ver’ on the historic moonshot later this decade.

Dec 13, 2024 · The Sydney Startup Hub home to popular accelerators and dozens of budding companies will be shifted out of the CBD to the Tech Central precinct next year to get founders closer to researchers and larger companies. The move south will break the current York Street lease three years early and comes after doubts about the value of an arrangement that was costing the government $15 million ...

Australian scientists are teaming with a British biotech to tackle two of the deadliest virus-carrying mosquitos in the Pacific region and fight deadly diseases like dengue, Zika, and yellow fever with mutant specimens that decimate overall numbers. An innovative ‘just add water’ solution that quickly breeds genetically engineered mosquitoes will be used to curb transmission and overall ...

Oct 1, 2024 · Deakin University has opened Australia’s first dedicated hydrogen fuel cell research and development centre, giving researchers and industry access to prototyping and fabrication infrastructure. Opened on Tuesday, the Hycel Technology Hub is based at the university's Warrnambool campus in Southeast Victoria and features a first-of-its kind testing station for hydrogen fuel cells with a power ...