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Video games
Could more Australians ditch blockbuster films these holidays?
The traditional holiday movie season is facing stiff competition this year, with a study highlighting that a new trend is picking up a bigger audience and a larger share of the publicity.
- by Tim Biggs
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Start-ups
The Australian company that wants to help one million people a day
One of the hottest health technology start-ups in Australia has hosed down concerns about how patient data is treated to train its AI platform.
- by David Swan
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Competition
Will new competition laws make your digital life cheaper?
An EU-style regime aims to stop big tech locking down their platforms. But we are still a long way from making smartphones a truly open ecosystem, like home computers.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
Cybersecurity
The Chinese hack that has Australia on high alert
A notorious Chinese hacking group has stolen a vast amount of Americans’ metadata, and Australian officials are worried.
- by David Swan
Opinion
Trade wars
China is on a collision course with Trump. It just fired a warning shot
China has not wasted any time responding to the latest US attempt to restrain its development of a crucial industry. It was an unusual move and perhaps a sign of things to come.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Video games
The botched deal that gave the world the Sony PlayStation
PlayStation today is synonymous with video games, but on this day 30 years ago, it was an underdog taking on a giant.
- by Tim Biggs
Richard White says resignation a ‘circuit-breaker’ for WiseTech
The billionaire executive says it was his own idea to step down from the company he founded 30 years ago, amid probes into his behaviour.
- by David Swan
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Mergers & acquisitions
Paul Keating set for $40 million windfall from Telstra deal
The former prime minister co-founded a budget telco in 2000, and is now set for a massive payday.
- by David Swan
The ‘death clock’ that predicts the day you’ll die
The AI was trained on a dataset of more than 1200 life expectancy studies with some 53 million participants. Its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers.
- by Alex Tanzi
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AI
Every time you use ChatGPT, half a litre of water goes to waste
Tech giants including OpenAI, Meta and Google are being urged to tackle AI’s dirty secret – its massive power problem.
- by David Swan
Opinion
Podcasts
By dismissing Joe Rogan, Kim Williams has missed a golden opportunity
Calling the most popular podcast host in the world repulsive and predatory isn’t just lazy. It shows how deep the ABC’s reluctance to evolve really is.
- by David Swan