GPU hackathon returns to WA
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is hosting a five-day ‘GPU hackathon’ to help computer scientists port applications to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).
Stories by George Nott
CBA makes Albert Alipay compatible
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is making Alipay available as a payments option on its Albert point-of-sale devices.
Amazon Web Services hints at quantum computing future
Amazon Web Services has, for the first time, hinted at its interest in offering quantum computing to customers.
Government launches digital economy strategy
Digital skills, digital services, infrastructure, access to quality data and an ‘enabling environment’ are the federal government’s key areas of focus.
Australian robotics champion joins CSIRO’s Data61
CSIRO’s Data61 has appointed Dr Sue Keay to lead its Cyber Physical Systems program, which is focused on the “connection of digital devices to the physical environment”.
Businesses sign up to Global Talent Scheme pilot
Five organisations have signed up to the government’s pilot Global Talent Scheme (GTS) program, launched in July in a bid to make it easier for big business and tech start-ups to hire overseas talent for highly skilled roles.
Microsoft joins RegTech Association
The industry body for the burgeoning regulation technology sector – the RegTech Association (RTA) – has announced the addition of Microsoft to its membership ranks.
Undersea robot ‘crop duster’ replenishes Great Barrier Reef coral
An undersea robot ‘crop duster’ has been put to work on the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to repopulate areas scorched by coral bleaching.
CBA capitulates, will support Apple Pay next year
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will offer customers Apple Pay in January, it announced today.
New institute wants ‘world where systems behave ethically’
The institute will undertake research in the emerging field of quantitative fairness and work with the public and private sectors to put the research into practice. It will release open source ethical AI tools that can be adopted and adapted, says director Bill Simpson-Young.
Deadset distributed ledger legends: Aussie inventors’ blockchain patent strength
Patent applications for blockchain related innovations are booming worldwide and Australia is ‘punching above its weight’ according to a report from the ACS and IP Australia’s Patent Analytics Hub.
AustCyber calls for cool heads after encryption bill passed
AustCyber – the government funded not-for-profit tasked with growing the Australian cyber security sector – has called for cool heads following the passage of the so-called encryption bill by parliament.
Australia’s ‘digital identity assets’ in danger, report
“What if we had no evidence of who we are, what we own, who governs us, where we have come from?” writes Anne Lyons in ASPI report.
AustCyber to help cyber industry 'minimise economic impact' of encryption bill
AustCyber says it will work with businesses of all sizes to ensure the encryption bill is implemented “in a way that minimises the economic impact” upon them.
Sydney quantum start-up Q-CTRL launches first product
Sydney start-up Q-CTRL has launched its inaugural product – Black Opal – which it describes as “the world’s first commercially available software suite designed to improve the performance of quantum computing hardware”.