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China shifts focus to job-ready humanoid robots

BEIJING – After years of building humanoid robots capable of running, dancing and performing backflips, Chinese companies are pouring resources into a different

Giant NT data centre delayed after pushbacks

The developer of one of Australia’s biggest planned data centres scrapped its target start date after a regulator said it needed longer than usual to set

Apple unveils its first touch screen laptops

Apple CEO John Ternus unveiled the company’s first touchscreen MacBooks this week, abandoning a long-held aversion to the technology as it caps a burst of product

Robot delivery service launched on the Gold Coast

Australia’s first robot footpath delivery service has been launched on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Serve Robotics and DoorDash have started the service at the Gold

Company plans to sell reflected sunlight at night

By Richard de Grijs A US startup has booked two Indian rocket launches to test a planned service no company has sold before: sunlight at night. California-based Reflect

Millions of websites taken offline to deal with critical flaw

By Andrew Cullen Details have been published of a critical flaw in the programming language PHP, which is the backbone of more than 70 percent of all websites. Left

Apple’s new age check gives online access with less risks

By Toby Murray Australians who use Apple devices can once again access the world’s most popular adult content site, Pornhub. That’s because Aylo, the parent company

Draft digital duty of care laws to address online harm

By Lisa Given The Federal Government has introduced draft digital duty of care legislation, designed to protect Australians from online harms. The legislation was first

Australia heading for world-first ‘right to be forgotten’

By Rob Nicholls On Monday, the Australian government released draft legislation for the next big overhaul of the Privacy Act. The Privacy Amendment (Personal Data

AI may be ‘biggest transformation in our lifetime’

By Michelle Grattan Artificial intelligence (AI) should help Australia achieve its long term productivity target, while having “profound” effects on the labour

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