AI, from being a distant reality seen only in Hollywood movies, has become our reality. Right from helping mankind achieve impossible feats, to reducing labour work, read all about the latest advancements in AI!
CSIRO’s Data61 develops ‘Void’ to prevent voice spoofing attacks
CSIRO’s digital strategy arm, Data61 has come up with a new technique to prevent voice spoofing attacks – Voice liveness detection (Void). Void has been developed in association with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung Research. Voice spoofing is a malicious technique used by scammers...
The Capability – Australia’s facial recognition tech & how accurate it might be
Update, 13th July 2020: The Australian and British data protection authorities have started an investigation to look into the controversial and problematic facial recognition technology company Clearview AI. Facial recognition is the technology capable of verifying or identifying a person from a digital image or video...
Australia joins global artificial intelligence forum as a founding member
Australia has signed up as a founding member of the world’s first forum that pledges to ensure ethical use and development of artificial intelligence. Karen Andrews, Australian Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, said membership of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) will give...
Australia Wins AI Eurovision Song Contest: A Breakthrough
The Australian song composed using artificial intelligence wins the first prize in the first AI Eurovision song contest. Australian song ‘Beautiful the World’ beat 12 other entries from different parts of the world to claim victory. Hosted by Dutch radio station VPRO, this Eurovision-style song...
Australian Company ‘InteliCare’ gets listed on ASX after IPO
Overcoming the challenges of coronavirus, InteliCare manages to get listed and will debut today on the ASX. The company’s lead manager JP Equity closes its book of the $5.5M IPO early. More investments are being made by private healthcare companies and the government to improve...
Sign-ups for Voice Biometrics in Australia Cross a Million
Customer sign-ups surpass 1.2 million in Services Australia’s voice biometrics library. Voice biometrics are used by the Australian Taxation Office across its call centre and mobile app as part of the identification process. The Australian-government agency has seen a remarkable increase in the number of...
Virgin’s Vox Space Secures $35M Space Force Launch Agreement
VOX Space, the Virgin space subsidiary devoted to government launches, has secured an important new agreement with the U.S. Space Force and is nearly to move from testing to extensive operations, the company announced. The Space Force agreement is for three launches and is estimated...
Clearsteps’ COVID-19 Chat Scanner: Safeguarding Health with Tech
There is an increasing number of symptom inspector and screening devices that you can utilise at home if you assume you might have caught the new coronavirus that is creating the global COVID-19 pandemic. Most of these are comparatively simple, including about three or four...
FitnessAI runs past $1M ARR going into YC Demo Day
Y Combinator’s Demo Day is a first soirée on the startup calendar. This year, though, instead of a compact room replete with low pitches and lacklustre catering, Demo Day has become virtual. Even further, it was pushed up by a week, starting the public appearance...
The first SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is exerting its ultimate flight
Last night, SpaceX propelled its first-generation Dragon spacecraft on its twentieth — and last — resupply flight to the International Space Station. The launch signifies the Dragon’s end mission as the spacecraft makes way for SpaceX’s refreshed and improved Dragon 2 spacecraft, which will start...
