This billionaire immigrant is racing Elon Musk to connect your phone from space
Abel Avellan is taking on SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper in the battle to provide broadband satellite internet directly to your smartphone.
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Superpower raises $30 million to launch world’s first health super-app
Superpower, the company empowering members to take control of their health, today announces the launch of the world’s first health super-app—beginning with the most comprehensive biomarker testing service on the market to deliver proactive, preventative, and personalised healthcare to everyone.
Dozens of 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints found in Queensland school lobby
Students at a Queensland high school got a thrilling paleontology lesson this week when a researcher confirmed that a rock slab stored on their campus for two decades preserves dozens of dinosaur footprints dating back some 200 million years.
Relume: The Aussie website creator powering Trump’s meme coin
Sydney startup Relume is the AI website creator behind www.gettrumpmemes.com, the official domain for President Trump’s controversial $Trump meme coin.
Eric Schmidt’s new secret project is an AI video platform called ‘Hooglee’
The billionaire technologist has quietly founded a startup that aims to “bring people closer, simplify communication, and enhance engagement” through artificial intelligence.
Coders worry the AI from this $2 billion startup could replace their jobs
Backed by $200 million in funding, 28-year-old Scott Wu and his team of competitive coders at Cognition are building an AI tool that can program entirely on its own, like an “army of junior engineers.”
Waymo logging 150,000 Robotaxi rides and 1 million miles a week
The autonomous vehicle company’s weekly ridership has jumped more than 50% in two months and more than doubled since the start of 2024.
Tesla offers little information on Robotaxi. Here’s the deeper scoop
After a great deal of hype, Tesla conducted its “We Robot” robotaxi reveal on Thursday Evening at Warner Studios in Los Angeles.
A robot and a billion-dollar dream: Inside Grace Brown’s quest to revolutionise aged care
24-year-old mechatronics engineer Grace Brown has been building robots since she was just 15. But her hobby became a business in 2022 when she launched Andromeda Robotics with a view to deploying the first empathetic robotic throughout nursing homes in Australia: Abi.
Meet the tech duo behind Updoc: 200K patients and a $20 million milestone
Computer science whiz Dylan Coyne sparked up an idea for a telehealth platform in 2021 when he realised working a 9-5 didn’t leave you with much time to see a doctor. Three years later, Updoc, the company he co-founded with Clifton Hodgkinson, has served more than 200,000 customers to date and banked $20 million in funding.