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Jonathan Cotton
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Hands up who wants a microchip in their arm
Punters are surprisingly open to the ultimate in biometric identification… read more...
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Western Australia needs data scientists – 3k of them
Once called ‘the sexiest job of the 21st century’, data scientists are currently a hot commodity… read more...
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Pandemic brings Christmas shopping crunch
Online demand faces supply chain shortfalls… read more...
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ID, meet payments: AU’s digital ID ecosystem expands
Can the private sector finally deliver a real digital ID solution… read more...
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Reversing the global productivity slump
Productivity has declined, but Microsoft may have a solution… read more...
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New tech being rolled out to combat Covid-19
But it’s hard to build the perfect contact tracing beast… read more...
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Lucrative quarter for FAANGS
As the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues, revenues of the tech leaders continue to soar… read more...
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Why DuckDuckGo won’t be your next search engine
It’s hot to hate the giants right now, but is regulation necessary – or even right?… read more...
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The lives of others: Exploring the Internet of Behaviour
Connected data will increasingly influence our lives and our decision making… read more...
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Dropbox goes 100% virtual
File sharing giant says ‘go home, stay home’ to staff… read more...
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Subscription economy quietly booms under lockdown
2020 is the year of the accelerated trend… read more...
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Govt scraps much-loathed tax incentive reforms
It’s a new RDTI landscape on both sides of the Tasman… read more...
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Marketing analytics: A big annoying pain in the butt
Nearly half of CMOs “unable to measure marketing ROI”… read more...
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Google’s billion-dollar plan to solve its news woes
But not Downunder… read more...
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Why is launching a digital ID program so hard?
Australia’s digital ID project gets a AU$250m cash injection… read more...
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Crunching the numbers on internet privacy
From ad-trackers to key-loggers to third-party cookies, who’s watching us when we surf the net? … read more...
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Snowflake’s staggering IPO
Unicorn mobilises the world’s data (and capital investment)… read more...
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Making public-sector data available and transparent
Sharing is good, says the Govt… read more...
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Sex-tech: Ready to explode
But is it all just digital junk?… read more...
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Govts on the hunt for global tech talent
Closed borders are opening (just a bit) in order to tempt talent Downunder… read more...