Monday, August 17, 2026

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Accountants warn the CGT changes are a $500 million annual shitshow

The federal Budget’s proposed changes to capital gains tax (CGT) are rushed and deeply flawed, peak accounting body CPA Australia has warned, and will cost billions to implement. The changes, announced last month under the guise of improving housing...

Why the Lucky Country has a US problem 

The United States remains the most compelling growth destination for Australian technology and innovation  companies, but it is also one of the most unforgiving. For founders and executives who have built strong businesses  at home, the leap across the...

Cicada’s Liza Noonan on R&D’s new valley of death & the ‘missing middle’ for deep tech

R&D investment and commercialisation can’t be treated as separate issues, says Liza Noonan, CEO of Sydney deep-tech hub Cicada Innovations, on episode 61 of Startup 360. Liza unpacks deep tech — think quantum computing, medical devices and advanced manufacturing —...

What about customers? Why AI productivity is the means, not mission

Bain went looking at the companies that actually measure their AI savings and found four in ten had clawed back 10% or less. The tools worked. The money never showed up. This is the sound of the bill arriving, and...

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable public AI model, and will hand your conversation to a weaker model the moment it detects a...

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models’ enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities....

KAST Garners Capital to Help Bolster AI Adoption Throughout Kootenays Region

In 2022, Techcouver reminded folks that even though Vancouver is the obvious and dominant hub for technology and innovation in British Columbia, other regions do nonetheless contribute to the scene. We pointed back then to the Okanagan Valley as one...

BC Tech Reveals Finalists for 2026 Technology Impact Awards

BC Tech has announced the finalists for its 2026 Technology Impact Awards, spotlighting dozens of companies helping shape the future of British Columbia’s innovation economy. This year’s TIAs feature 48 finalists across 11 award categories, recognizing companies at every stage...

The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, melting its adult body back into an immature polyp...

Off the coast of Rapallo, in the warm shallows of the Mediterranean, a jellyfish no bigger than the nail on your little finger is doing something no other animal can reliably do. When Turritopsis dohrnii is wounded, starved, or...

When Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific in 1969, the recovered astronauts were sealed in a quarantine trailer for weeks because nobody could...

On July 24, 1969, three days after leaving lunar orbit, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about 900 miles southwest of Hawaii, and within minutes a Navy frogman from the USS Hornet...

Sea otters keep a favourite rock tucked in a loose pouch of skin under each forearm, carry it between dives, and use it as...

Fewer than one percent of mammal species are known to use tools at all, and the number that retain a specific tool across multiple uses drops to a handful. Chimpanzees make the list. So do a few crows and...
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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