Australian design unicorn Canva has unveiled its biggest product overhaul in its 12 years, as part of what it is calling its ‘Creative Operating System’. The blockbuster new system features Canva’s own large language model trained specifically for design, and permanently free access to the Affinity professional design tool, and new features to help you… Read more »
There’s been a flurry of funding deals announced by Australian and Kiwi startups this week — from a Brisbane startup building superfast, hydrogen-powered planes to a Perth company transforming seaweed into a natural alternative to plastic. Keep reading to learn more about the eight Australian and New Zealand startups that collectively raised more than $113… 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 »
Buying and selling online with e-commerce is old news. We’re entering the age of A-commerce, where artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly able to shop for us. At the end of September, OpenAI launched its “Buy it in ChatGPT” trial in the United States, using AI agents built to interact with us to do more of… Read more »
In the startup world, we’re conditioned to worship at the altar of data. We’re told to build cases based on data before we build products, to chase quantifiable metrics, and to present spreadsheets that prove a market exists. But what happens when you discover a problem so fundamental that no one has been able to… Read more »
When Chelsea McCallum and Alison Williams launched Tummily, they weren’t just creating another wellness platform. They were redesigning how people experience – and take ownership of – their gut health. Within 24 hours of launch, Tummily had broken into Apple’s Top 100 Medical Apps, downloaded in over 40 countries. No massive ad campaign. No investor… 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 »
Last week, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that promises to revolutionise how we interact with the internet. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, described it as a “once-a-decade opportunity” to rethink how we browse the web. The promise is compelling: imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that follows you across every website, remembers your… 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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Motoring
Australians will have to wait until 2027 before the government sorts out national self-driving car rules
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