This is part three of Christie Jenkins’ five-part series on bravery. It is inspired by her chat with Crista Samaras, the founder of Brave Enterprises. Trampolining was my first sport. For 17 years, I did flips every day. “Does it feel like flying?” people ask me. From their view, I get why. I’m often 10 meters… Read more »
Watching the credits roll on The Outer Worlds 2, it dawned on me: I had beaten this game in a single long weekend. Purchased on Friday, finished on Cup Tuesday night. All while fitting in family and friend commitments, too. It wasn’t a short title either, taking around 20 hours to complete to a level… Read more »
In September, US electric car maker Tesla rolled out a semi-autonomous driving feature it describes as “the future of transport” in Australia. As its name suggests, the Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system blurs the line between human and machine control. Our current licensing and road-safety frameworks were not designed to handle this situation. A federal government… Read more »
Startup 360 cohost Simon Thomsen is flying solo this week, taking a deep dive into philanthropy with Antonia Ruffell, CEO of StartGiving, and the Australian MD of global tech charity initiative Pledge 1%. Technology is transforming the art of giving – with companies such as Atlassian, Canva and now Airtree cofounder Daniel Petre, founder of… Read more »
You arrive at work, coffee in hand, ready to tackle the day. But your manager seems off, curt in meetings, impatient with questions, and unusually sharp in tone. Before chalking it up to personality, consider this: they might just be sleep-deprived. Research in organisational behaviour and sleep science suggests that a leader’s sleep quality can… Read more »
Hello, welcome to this week’s (spooky) edition of Infinite Lives. Each quarter, I ask writers across the platform to contribute to a piece around an idea or theme in gaming. With Halloween here, this article examine the evil figures and forces that define videogames. got a whopping 14 intriguing submissions this time around. My take?… Read more »
Has a camouflaged athlete running on a dirt road ever shouted health advice through your phone? Sometimes these videos are motivational and get you off the couch to start exercising; sometimes they’re educational. But can their advice help us civilians? Let’s look at what it means to follow the “military sleep method”. There are various… Read more »
In “the recession Australia had to have”, as our then Treasurer Paul Keating stated in 1990, I was a cofounder of a small, emerging manufacturing business in Sydney, NSW. We started the business in mid-1988, went through the usual start-up growing pains, won a place on a NSW government tender, and things were tight, but… Read more »
A decade ago, Ronen Heine tossed in his career as a corporate lawyer at a top tier law firm for life as a startup founder and adviser. “I was doing lots of fancy work on the outside, but dead on the inside,” the founder of Luna tells Startup 360. “It was funny because no one… Read more »
Waymo is talking to local regulators about trialling the company’s self-driving taxis in Australia, as the autonomous vehicle company begins lobbying governments around the country. Owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Waymo describes itself as the “world’s first autonomous ride-hailing service” and says its vehicles have completed 10 million driverless rides in five US cities,… Read more »
Powerhoof’s Dave Lloyd has a new rule for his next project: never spend six years on a game again. His latest game, The Drifter, a dark point-and-click adventure, took more time to pull together than the studio’s two prior games, and one year shy of the extended development time we saw with Hollow Knight: Silksong.… Read more »
This is part two of Christie Jenkins’ 5-part series on bravery. It is inspired by her chat with Crista Samaras, the founder of Brave Enterprises. We want to be fearless. We want to feel confident. Instead, what we should seek is more bravery. Courage comes before confidence, and is the greater virtue. “You’re so brave,”
What started off as a nice idea for an easy column each year is getting progressively harder. As I covered recently, there were over 100 games on display at PAX Australia -every genre was just about covered, and most were impressive in their own right. It makes singling any of them out an agonising decision.… Read more » Right now, more than 311,000 Australian Facebook users can apply for a slice of a A$50 million compensation fund from tech giant Meta – the largest ever payment for a breach of Australians’ privacy. But the clock is ticking. Even if you’re eligible, you only have until December 31 2025 to make your claim. Similar… Read more » After a decade of work, the federal government has committed to finalising formal road rules, regulations, and technical and cybersecurity standards for self-driving cars by 2027, even as autonomous vehicles are already on Australian roads. The new National Road Transport Technology Strategy (NRTTS), including the 2024-27 National Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Action Plan nationwide framework, replaces National Land… Read more » Daily startup news and insights, delivered to your inbox.
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