My resolution for 2019 is to have gleaming robot-cleaned windows at home.
Author Archive: Chris Griffith
Cars will communicate in a driverless future
Car-to-car communication is one of the tools the industry is developing to convince us about the safety of driverless cars.
Meural to stream digital art into homes
Meural Canvas lets you view tens of thousands of digital artworks on a frame in your home.
Fancy Stargate shopping?
Going through Stargate portals between worlds is something you associate with sci-fi movies rather than supermarket shopping.
NASA lacks tech to colonise Mars
Colonising Mars could take much longer than previously thought.
Vanessa Amorosi still has that star quality
Vanessa Amorosi has been in great voice at cameo appearances in the US.
Film fakes: pick the real Obama
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are helping to manipulate video and audio in frightening new ways.
AI bid to future-proof our ancient languages
Researchers in Queensland are harnessing artificial intelligence to document Australian indigenous languages.
Every move you make
Google may go past seeing what we buy to swaying our choices.
Anyone for e-sports?
Gaming enthusiasts are taking their virtual reality skills to a new level.
Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes teaches a crash course in coding
It was back to school when Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes held a coding class yesterday.
Get on your e-bike
Riding up a hill on a regular pushbike normally is hard work. On this e-bike it’s easy despite the headwind and squalls of rain.
A voice that rings true
Motor neurone disease sufferers may soon get the chance to use a device that turns text into authentic sounding speech.
A driverless future
How ready are Australian roads for autonomous cars? Last week I travelled Sydney’s roads with operator Transurban.
Get off-grid texts with goTenna
goTenna’s brilliant outdoor mesh network is in Australia.
A drive on the mild side
A driverless share ride in Las Vegas is not to be missed. That was my thought.
Sex and drugs revealed in Silicon Valley
A tell-all book is about to lift the lid on sex and drugs parties hosted by powerful figures in Silicon Valley.
Mission to Mars takes first steps
I interview Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, who is in charge of planning its Mars mission.
Artificial intelligence, VR and AR aid space ventures to Mars and beyond
Artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality will play a huge role as humankind heads to Mars and beyond.
Peter Ford’s Control Bionics key to locked-in syndrome
Michael Phillips’s only means of communicating is by contracting the frontalis muscle on his forehead.