Apple is divided over blockbuster new product

Apple is divided over blockbuster new product

As Apple prepares to introduce its long-awaited augmented reality headset in June,enthusiasm at the company has given way to scepticism.

  • byTripp Mickle andBrian X. Chen

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‘No orbit’:3D-printed reusable rocket debut ends in failure

‘No orbit’:3D-printed reusable rocket debut ends in failure

The start-up wanted to put the Terran into a 200-kilometre-high orbit for several days before having it plunge through the atmosphere.

  • byMarcia Dunn
Under Joe Biden,Uncle Sam is disrupting Silicon Valley

Under Joe Biden,Uncle Sam is disrupting Silicon Valley

Economic growth this decade could be driven less by Silicon Valley values and more by the values of the Biden administration.

  • byConor Sen
‘We don’t have any privacy anymore’,says inventor of the mobile phone

‘We don’t have any privacy anymore’,says inventor of the mobile phone

Martin Cooper frets like everybody else about his invention’s impacts on society — from the loss of privacy to the risk of internet addiction to the rapid spread of harmful content,especially among kids.

  • byKelvin Chan
How AI search engines became the next big tech arms race

How AI search engines became the next big tech arms race

In a matter of months,AI search engines have gone from theoretical research to a battle between Microsoft’s new Bing and Google’s Bard.

  • byTim Biggs
Apple unveils MacBook Pro,Mac Mini with powerful new M2 chips

Apple unveils MacBook Pro,Mac Mini with powerful new M2 chips

In a rare January product launch,Apple has introduced a version of its MacBook Pro it claims is the longest-lasting Mac computer ever.

  • byTim Biggs
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Imported know-how:Foreign inventors responsible for a third of US breakthroughs

Imported know-how:Foreign inventors responsible for a third of US breakthroughs

Immigrants are also directly behind almost a quarter of all patents,and their work indirectly contributes to additional findings by US-born scientists.

  • byAugusta Saraiva
Fusion has come of age,and it sparks hope for our energy future

Fusion has come of age,and it sparks hope for our energy future

It does not get us off the hook on climate change or allow us to dodge the upheaval of net zero by 2050;nor does it alone put the old fossil-based order out of business. But replicating the process of the sun in a laboratory is first step towards clean,cheap and safe energy for all.

  • byAmbrose Evans-Pritchard
Your selfies are helping computers learn. You did not consent to this.
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Your selfies are helping computers learn. You did not consent to this.

Good or bad,artificial intelligence systems are being built with pieces of you. What are the rules of the road now that you’re breathing life into AI and can’t imagine the outcomes?

  • byShira Ovide
‘There’s nothing sexier’:CSIRO head Larry Marshall on changing the future

‘There’s nothing sexier’:CSIRO head Larry Marshall on changing the future

The scientist and business leader talks about why STEM is so attractive,growing up “double Catholic” – and the sex advice he’d give his younger self.

  • byBenjamin Law
WA students light the way to help save endangered turtles

WA students light the way to help save endangered turtles

Students from Christmas Island have created an invention to help endangered turtles. Their teacher has highlighted this is an example of the benefits of getting kids involved in grassroots changes.

  • byHolly Thompson