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‘Aussie AI’: assistant tech minister wants the data centre push to deliver higher up the ‘value chain’

In a lecture to be delivered at the ANU Crawford School Tuesday titled “Why Australia Needs to Turn Compute into Sovereign AI”, Charlton argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth...

When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as...

A company scraps a schedule that forced its people to work an extra Sunday every other week, handing them back roughly 20 days a year. You would expect relief, maybe applause. Instead, a big share of the workforce pushed...

The claim that self-approval beats popularity sounds like a fridge magnet, but the research on where self-worth comes from is unusually pointed: staking it...

Self-approval beats popularity reads like a motivational slogan, the kind of line that is easy to nod at and then ignore. The psychology behind it is more specific, and more useful, than the phrasing suggests. The point is not...

Psychology says people who carry one mug to the kitchen instead of waiting to carry four aren’t tidy or impatient — they’re spending real...

It looks like the least efficient way to clear a table. One mug, one trip, back and forth, when waiting five more minutes would let the same person carry all four at once and cut the total number of trips...

A meta-analysis of 138 experiments found that tracking progress significantly improves goal achievement — and the effect becomes stronger when that progress is recorded...

Goals usually begin in the future tense: finish the proposal, save the deposit, train three times a week. Progress exists in the present tense. It asks a less inspiring but more useful question: what has actually happened since the...

GeoComply Extends Partnership with FanDuel to Deliver Tech Worthy of Trust

GeoComply is extending its partnership with FanDuel Group, a mobile gaming company based in the United States. Founded in Vancouver in 2011 by Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs, GeoComply offers a digital identity platform and trust engine that can detect...

UBC Researchers Are Turning B.C. Wood Waste into a Post-Plastic Opportunity

British Columbia has no shortage of wood—but much of what is harvested never reaches a mill. At the same time, industries worldwide are searching for practical alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. Researchers at the University of British Columbia believe these two...

Canva wipes $11 billion from its valuation, putting IPO plans in doubt

Two of Canva’s earliest and largest local backers, Blackbird and Airtree recently ran the ruler over the design platform once again, with external valuers marking it down 17% to US$34.9B (c. A$49B). Blackbird partner Rick Baker said the VCs updated...

Hotels customer acquisition platform Visaible.ai finds room for $1 million

The round was led by Blacksheep Capital. The capital will be used to build out an end-to-end agentic automation and expand into the US, UK and Europe. expand a software platform to help hotels drive bookings through, AI queries. The...

Psychology says people who double-check the door is locked (even when they know it is) aren’t anxious or forgetful — they’re wired for a...

You locked it. You watched your own hand turn the key. You’re halfway down the path. And you go back and try the handle anyway. If that’s you, someone in your life has probably teased you about it. Maybe you’ve teased...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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