Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly and threatens to transform politics, economics and societies. How should it be regulated? Are significant job losses inevitable? Should countries try to c...

Your phone battery doesn't like being fully charged or discharged. This is why it's sometimes advised that to extend its life, you shouldn't charge your phone beyond 80 per cent, or let it drop below ...

Meta looks to AI as a new film puts the company’s past decisions under scrutiny

Alive to This is a series of roundtable conversations a moment that is hard to make sense of and impossible to ignore. AI is reshaping how we work, decide and imagine the future. Underneath, our conne...

Where would you prefer to age: in an institution or your own home? The recent Four Corners episode The Waiting Game investigated how the current aged care system is failing thousands of Australians wh...

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It's not just phones. How much do our TVs, streaming boxes, and browsers know? This week, we look at research that suggests some LG TVs may be gathering more information about our viewing habits than...

Mel Huang Buntine on how computers started entering our homes, and the beige box of a machine that changed her own life. Personal computers are so ubiquitous now, it's hard to imagine a time when com...

Will rival superpowers co-operate to reign in AI’s risk to humanity?

The new bill puts the onus on tech platforms to protect Australians from harmful content and design features.

The digital divide means the responsibility is falling to loved ones, neighbours, and retirement village staff to bridge the gap for older Australians.

What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.

Australia's proposed Privacy Act reforms are some of the boldest changes to privacy law we've seen in years. How could it change the tech we use every day? And does this mean Australia is setting a ne...

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When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

The backlash to what some dub ‘pervert glasses’ is growing – but people living with disabilities point out the new tech can also be life-changing * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One summer day earlier this year, Rhys left a Collingwood cafe in Melbourne where he had been working remotely, when his phone pinged with a message on the dating app Grindr. The message was a photo of him sitting at a table outside the cafe on his laptop, with his dog seated on the ground next to him. In the foreground, in a man’s hand was an iPhone unlocked. Continue reading...

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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A folksy Congresswoman is taking on a progressive Muslim dubbed the Mamdani of the Midwest in the high stakes Democratic primary in the US state of Michigan — which is being seen as a referendum on th...

According to every available metric, the number of people who read books across almost every demographic in countries like Australia and the United States has fallen precipitously over the last fiftee...

They're big, ugly and noisy, and no one wants to live near them. But what if we've got the design of data centres all wrong? What if we started from the premise that data centres need to live within o...

ANALYSIS: Labor’s plan for a digital duty of care confers too much responsibility on a single, small regulator and it will take a multifaceted network to reduce harmful content online.

There is a risk this study will be leveraged by big tech platforms to exhonerate themselves.

Artificial intelligence is already changing how we live and work, while being sold as the technology that could cure disease, transform productivity and solve some of the world's biggest problems. Ste...

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As artificial intelligence facilitates an idealistic re-rendering of the good old days, this ‘airbrushed’ past is being used to politicise nostalgia and incite outrage over a ‘lost Australia’.

Parents of younger children and early adolescents can face pressure to allow them their own smart phone, with concerns around mental health effects and sleep disruption.  A new study looks at what ha...

As Australia shies away from meaningful AI regulation, a new framework offers a practical way to embed human moral responsibility at the centre of AI use.

For AI to serve humanity’s best interests, we need more thoughtful, diverse voices shaping the story we tell about it.

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Both France and Germany are switching from US tech surveillance company, Palantir to French firm ChapsVision, citing a need for digital sovereignty amid security concerns over sensitive data being eas...

Graham Guy was the victim of a romance scam and had his bank accounts drained over several years. Then came an unusual request that unwittingly drew him into crime.

Just after WWII, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive…

It is replacing our work, our relationships, even our capacity to think. It's the combined sum of all human knowledge — so how long until artificial intelligence surpasses our own? Are we already ther...

Across America communities are pushing back against the data centres powering artificial intelligence.  Water quality, noise and the drain on water and electricity are some of the reasons. While mon...

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says AI needs a brake pedal as it grows more powerful.

Artificial intelligence is already changing how we live and work, while being sold as the technology that could cure disease, transform productivity and solve some of the world's biggest problems. Ste...

America’s big tech bosses are trying to get artificial intelligence deployed everywhere, taking over our homes, our hobbies and our work.   By now, most of us are using AI for daily tasks, even if by...

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