What is bravery? Are there different types of courage? And how does your age, gender, race, and leadership style impact your bravery score? I first met Crista Samaras on a summery NY afternoon, in The Post clubhouse – a community for athletes in business. I’d spent the afternoon with Christian, the founder. She’d spent it… Read more »
Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), one of the biggest video game companies in the world behind games such as The Sims and Battlefield, has been sold to a consortium of buyers for US$55 billion (about A$83 billion). It is potentially the largest-ever buyout funded by private equity firms. Not AI, nor mining or banking,… Read more »
A Brisbane startup hoping to unleash the unrealised productivity gains of workplace artificial intelligence has raised $2.3 million in pre-Seed funding to help people refine ideas and inspiration using AI. The round for Enhance Labs was led by Blackbird Ventures with support from QIC Ventures. Enhance was cofounded by former Amazon engineer Haziq Nordin, former… Read more »
This week’s Startup 360 is a little different as cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell frock up for the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards. That’s the key theme of this week’s episode and we celebrate one of the winners by replaying our conversation with Climate Salad cofounder Mick Liubinskas. On Thursday night, Mick was… Read more »
A friend and fellow businessman did a presentation to a group of Entrepreneurs titled: ‘The laziest Entrepreneur I know’ – he was talking about me. I was offended, until I read the deck and realised he was pointing out that instead of buying into the ‘hustle’ culture I had created a culture built on sustainability.… Read more »
One month in and This Week In Videogames, launched by an Australian content creator, is off to a roaring start. In an industry full of busy people, Edmond Tran has to be among the busiest. For the past month, Tran has been working as an editorial Swiss Army knife for the new gaming news website… Read more »
Chinese car manufacturer BYD has built the fastest production car on the planet after its Yangwang U9 Xtreme hypercar hit a top speed of 496.22km/h. The record, at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany on September 14, beats the 490.484km/h top speed for a petrol-powered car – the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport… Read more »
This month, the Australian-made video game Silksong became one of the most played titles worldwide. Created by Team Cherry, a three-person indie studio in Adelaide, the sequel to 2017’s Hollow Knight shows how small studios can capture global attention. Its success matters not just for its artistry but because it demonstrates why video games are… Read more »
Charlie Chan’s musical career began at age 3 with a ukulele. It broke. But growing up in the ’70s, Charlie was part of the dawn of consumer electronics and computers, experimenting with home electronics kits, and by the ’90s as the internet age began, they went online to share their music with the world. Now… Read more »
Have you recently cut down on caffeine and feel like you’re having the most vivid dreams of your life? While there are a number of potential benefits of reducing our caffeine intake – such as whiter teeth and fewer trips to the toilet – we often hear one downside of cutting back on caffeine is… Read more »
Operating for 20 years, Australia Plays has become a globally influential gaming survey authority. But it now faces new challenges as its data matures. Bond University’s Professor Jeffrey Brand is calm, collected and ready to go. There’s no sense of nervousness or trepidation on a media call discussing his research into Australia’s gaming population. He… Read more »
From K-beauty to French baking to low-emissions steel production, the national finalists in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ program’s Industry category show the true diversity and innovation of Australian manufacturing today. Ahead of the 25th annual awards, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year program has given Startup Daily a glimpse at the Australians whose… Read more »
Tesla is expected to soon turn on its “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” (FSD) mode in Australia and New Zealand. Is a future of driverless cars upon us? Not exactly – it’s essentially more advanced driver assistance. Legally, Tesla drivers using this mode must be ready to take control and pay attention at all times. Calling it… Read more »
This week on Startup 360, we talk to two founders who presented at Cicada x Tech23. Engineer Nick Hazell is back with his second climate tech startup, Algenie, having previously raised $120 million for his plant-based meat startup v2food. Also on the couch is Ana Belgun from CSIRO-developed digital twin pioneer Terria. They were among… Read more »
It beggars belief that holding the world record for speedrunning Pokémon HeartGold can come down to how quickly you catch a rare Magikarp. It’s a notoriously pathetic monster, mocked both in-game and in the long-running anime series. But in HeartGold there’s an incredibly rare variant that’s set at level 50. Capturing it, and boosting it… Read more »
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