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Alphabet features self-driving garbage cans, apartment noise monitors in Toronto smart city project
NBN Co is skipping "thousands" of premises a month
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Negative interest rates threaten to choke bank IT systems
Twitter tightens bans on political ads and causes
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Data61's new roadmap touts AI as national panacea
Outlines areas for economic advantage.
Nov 15 2019 1:09PM
Data61 gamifies psychiatry to reduce misdiagnosis
Detecting bipolar and complex disorders faster.
Oct 2 2019 9:31AM
ASD drops free data visualisation tool onto GitHub, says it’s “giving back to the community”
Doesn’t work on Mac or Intel on-board graphics cards.
Aug 15 2019 12:00PM
AFP wants AI "data airlock" to ferret out abhorrent material
In partnership with Monash Uni.
Jul 1 2019 12:05PM
Sydney Uni researchers uncover 2000 fake apps on Google Play store
Impersonating popular Android apps.
Jun 24 2019 4:41PM
Data61 wants to 'vaccinate' machine learning algorithms against attacks
Recognising and fending off attacks.
Jun 20 2019 7:17AM
Aussie security researcher helps uncover latest Intel flaws
Follows work on Spectre, Meltdown.
May 16 2019 7:25AM
Swinburne taps Data61 spin-out for telehealth education
Researchers, students to train with Coviu.
Apr 16 2019 11:55AM
Federal govt to create AI ethics guidelines
Wants feedback on which values to embed in tech.
Apr 5 2019 12:03PM
NSW govt offers first look at its 'digital twin'
Virtual model shows assets above and below ground in real time.
Feb 5 2019 12:04PM
CSIRO's Data61 battles to replace 20-year-old servers
"Almost impossible to get funding for infrastructure hardware" outside research projects.
Jan 22 2019 11:55AM
Microsoft, Macquarie Group and KPMG throw weight behind AI institute
Industry buy-in to help ANU create new field of applied science.
Dec 17 2018 11:43AM
IAG teams up with Data61, USyd over AI ethics institute
To promote fair policy and practice.
Dec 13 2018 11:29AM
CBA, Data61 claim success on NDIS payments blockchain trial
But more work needed before full-scale rollout.
Nov 13 2018 4:10PM
CBA, Data61 build prototype app for blockchain-based NDIS payments
To bring 'smart money' to participants.
Oct 9 2018 11:02AM
Data61 pilots 'smart contract' blockchain that could decimate lawyers
Automation comes to the legal sector.
Aug 29 2018 10:16AM
CSIRO removes HPC 'bottleneck' with storage upgrade
Boosts supercomputing performance.
Jul 6 2018 6:45AM
Open banking to be phased in from mid-2019
Banks warn of challenges ahead.
May 11 2018 6:00AM
CSIRO cuts 15 jobs from lab that invented wi-fi
'Not aligned with strategy'.
Sep 15 2017 2:59PM
Data61 casts doubt over blockchain future in Australia
More research needed to make sure hyped tech will work as intended.
Jun 7 2017 11:30AM
