In today’s digital age, your smartphones often feels like an extension of you. Recent data reveals that the average person spends over three hours daily on their phone, with 20 percent dedicating more than 4.5 hours. Alarmingly, 62 percent of adults admit to sleeping with their phones by their side. While these figures might not ...
Australian consumers don’t understand how companies — including data brokers — track, target, and profile them. This is revealed in new research on consumer understanding of privacy terms, released by the non-profit Consumer Policy Research Centre and UNSW Sydney. Our report also reveals 70 percent of Australians feel they have little or no control over ...
In 2009, an Air France jet crashed into the ocean, leaving no survivors. The plane’s autopilot system shut down and the pilots, having become reliant on their computerized AI assistant, were unable to correct the situation manually. In 2015, a bus driver in Europe typed the wrong destination into his GPS device and cheerfully took ...
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are supercharging the problem of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and various image, voice, and video generators have made it easier than ever to produce content, while making it harder to tell what is factual or real. Malicious actors looking to spread disinformation can use AI ...
The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don’t mind,” followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume. I did, in fact, mind. I felt violated. Wouldn’t you? I bet Taylor Swift did when deepfakes of ...
As the world rushes to make use of the latest wave of AI technologies, one piece of high-tech hardware has become a surprisingly hot commodity: the graphics processing unit, or GPU. A top-of-the-line GPU can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and leading manufacturer NVIDIA has seen its market valuation soar past US$2 trillion ...
For decades, psychology departments worldwide have studied human behavior in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movements, such as walking. Our new study, published in Nature Communications, challenges the wisdom of this approach. Using virtual reality (VR), we have revealed previously hidden aspects of perception that occur during a simple everyday action — walking. We found ...
A 10-story apartment building was finished in just over 28 hours in China, a feat that has never been done before. This impressive feat wasn’t done by magic, but by a new building method used by Broad Group. Learn more about this ground-breaking new technology and look at how quickly it is changing the future ...
The Australian Navy is set to be transformed. On top of existing plans for nuclear submarines, the government announced a scheme for an “enhanced lethality surface combatant fleet,” including six new “optionally crewed” vessels. The advantages of these vessels, which can operate with or without a crew, are clear. They can operate longer, with more ...
Coles and Woolworths, the supermarket chains that together control almost two-thirds of the Australian grocery market, are facing unprecedented scrutiny. One recent inquiry, commissioned by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and led by former Australian Consumer and Competition Commission chair Allan Fels, found the pair engaged in unfair pricing practices; an ongoing Senate inquiry ...
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