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David Reilly Microsoft Quantum computing

It’s not you, it’s me: Sydney quantum lab’s break up with Microsoft

David Reilly worried that breaking up with Microsoft had thrown his Sydney-based quantum computing team’s future into peril… Then the phone started ringing.  

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
Canva giveaway

Canva hits a billion-dollar milestone … without realising

Canva has been giving away a billion dollars of its premium product every year and hadn’t bothered to count.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Give 6-year-olds the vote to stop killer AI robots. Are you angry yet?

Of all the dangerous ideas he’s canvassed, author and academic David Runciman finds child suffrage is the one that gets the rotten tomatoes flying.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Fung’s task: Selling Airtasker equity for airtime

Founder Tim Fung has turned his jobs marketplace, Airtasker, into a household name thanks to shrewd deals giving media companies a slice of the action, but cracking the US hasn’t been quite so simple

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Decades in the making: BiVACOR implants first in-human artificial heart

The Australian designed maglev heart, the BiVACOR – which promises to be the world’s first permanent artificial heart replacement – will be spinning in Australian chests as early as this year.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
PsiQuantum

Chicago to get PsiQuantum’s second computer

Fresh from a controversial $940-million deal with Australian taxpayers to attempt the world’s first useful quantum computer in Brisbane, PsiQuantum has inked a deal to build its second one in Chicago.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Tesla chair teams up with billionaire NBL owner to buy Australia’s women’s basketball league

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has teamed up with the owner of the National Basketball League, Larry Kestelman, to take a controlling stake in the Women’s National Basketball League.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

‘Record demonstration’: Dark horse in quantum race passes new milestone

The upstart Australian quantum startup, Diraq, which hopes to build a quantum computer the size of a fridge utilising standard silicon chips, has announced it has achieved “record control accuracy of 99.9% for a quantum bit (qubit)”.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
Illuccix Telix

Guided nuclear missile for cancer: Telix prepares for Nasdaq IPO

Flushed with recent success, Melbourne-based, ASX-listed Telix Pharmaceuticals is looking to jointly list in the US to capitalise on its strong American base.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

How Siobhan Savage’s maternity leave obsession rejigged the way we hire and fire

Reejig CEO and cofounder Siobhan Savage opens up on the inspiration for her AI-powered startup.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
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