You wouldn’t necessarily expect a regional town known for its gold mining and agriculture to be the next “centre of drone excellence”, but this father and son did. Key points: A drone testing range is being established at West Wyalong in the NSW Riverina New drone, balloon, and space technology …
Read More »When Vernie plays video games in Melbourne, his fans around the world watch. He’s part of a rising trend
Most nights, when Vernie “BlueRukus” Valentos boots up the PlayStation in his home in Western Melbourne, he’s joined by a few dozen online spectators who have gathered to chat and watch him play. They come from all over, teenagers and the middle-aged, and have been doing so for years. For the 28-year-old, they …
Read More »Embracing culture change on the path to digital transformation
We did that by building a series of tech guilds. We built a cloud guild, a data guild, an insourcing framework. We built our NAB Engineering Foundation and with a goal of building a culture of innovation of cloud, of agile, and being able to deliver great products and services …
Read More »Rewarding the small businesses driving Australia forward
Our judges have combed through the more than 24,000 small businesses that were nominated for this year’s Telstra Best of Business Awards. We’ve singled out a few incredible businesses that demonstrate the resilience and ingenuity of the Aussie small business community. At a gala event in Sydney, we’ve just announced …
Read More »Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis
We used to eat so many different varieties of corn Maize or corn is now grown in greater volume than any crop in history, and is still the staple food for about 1.2 billion people in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. A farmer in spreads recently harvested maize …
Read More »Why the craft of weaving together science and policy is more critical now than ever
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many world leaders asserted something that seemed sensible – and welcome – to fans of science everywhere: put simply, that they would ‘follow the science’. But if you step on to a modern university campus, or take a tour through the variety …
Read More »Surveillance state: Australian sport and its next battlefront
Professional sports in Australia have been taken hostage by the promise of dollars that data can bring, leading to an “explosion in the capture” of athletes’ personal and private information collected from 24-7 monitoring with little to no regulations or safeguards. Key points: A new report says the data collected by …
Read More »This is as good as movies are going to get
Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing …
Read More »How the future of shopping was shaped by its past
It’s a sunny, spring Saturday morning in early 2019 and I’m having coffee at the local Costa in Brentwood, an Essex town where I’ve never been before. There are plenty of people out and about and smiling. I have a couple of hours to spare so I’m planning to wander …
Read More »Why we should all play more games
Games have played a role in human society across history and cultures stretching back millennia. When archaeologists found unusual quantities of sheep ankle bones during excavations in the ancient Mediterranean, they deduced they must have been used as a game that required players to balance the bones on their hands, …
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