Thursday, June 18, 2026

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The Pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a bubble that briefly reaches 4,700°C — nearly the surface temperature of the sun...

When marine acousticians first lowered hydrophones into tropical reefs in the early twentieth century, they reported back a sound like fat sizzling in a pan, a continuous crackle that drowned out almost everything else. Submariners during the Second World...

Vancouver AI Startup Orchid Brings The World Cup To Your Messages

As the FIFA World Cup kicks off across North America, a Vancouver-based AI startup is using the tournament to show what a text-first personal assistant can do. Orchid has launched a free World Cup experience that lets fans receive live...

Most people don’t realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still...

For decades, the dominant warning about midlife went something like this: the empty nest will hit when the last child leaves, you will cry for a week, and then you will rediscover yourself through pottery classes and weekend trips....

On October 29, 1969, a UCLA student named Charley Kline tried to send the word ‘LOGIN’ over ARPANET to Stanford, and the system crashed...

At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, a UCLA graduate student named Charley Kline put on a telephone headset, sat down at a computer terminal in Boelter Hall, and began typing the word that would open the door...

The Wollemi pine was known only from ancient fossils until a park ranger rappelled into a canyon outside Sydney in 1994 and found a...

Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a state secret, withheld from maps and guarded by a small circle of Australian rangers who reach the site by helicopter, in sterilised boots, on...

ShinyHunters breached more than 100 organisations through a PeopleSoft flaw before Oracle issued an advisory, and the reason two-thirds were universities says everything about...

The story of the latest ShinyHunters campaign is not really about a bug in Oracle PeopleSoft. It is about what happens when a single piece of enterprise software runs the back office of thousands of institutions, and a single...

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...
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Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney...
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