French police have arrested the founder of Telegram. What happens next could change the course of big tech
When Pavel Durov arrived in France on his private jet last Saturday, he was greeted…
AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool. In the hands of public police and other…
Space missions are getting more complex − lessons from Amazon and FedEx can inform satellite and spacecraft management in orbit
Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission…
How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks
Cloud computing has emerged as a crucial element in today’s technology, serving as the backbone…
Australia’s privacy regulator just dropped its case against ‘troubling’ facial recognition company Clearview AI. Now what?
The office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced this week it would be taking no…
First Nigerian to travel into space
The Blue Origin space craft owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to take six…
Thwaites Glacier won’t collapse like dominoes as feared, study finds, but that doesn’t mean the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is stable
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname the “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to flood coastlines…
What links aging and disease? A growing body of research says it’s a faulty metabolism
Aging is a biological process that no one can avoid. Ideally, growing old should be…
Social media accelerates trolling – just look at Raygun. How can we stop viral moments from spiralling?
For Australian breaker Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, the 2024 Paris Olympics were marred by an outpouring…
What exactly are ‘forever chemicals’ – and can we move beyond them?
The Australian parliament will conduct a national inquiry into the dangers of “forever chemicals”. The…