His greatest success could be his QR code check-in system during the pandemic.
Category Archives: People & Power
Key figures shaping tech and policy: Trump, Xi, Vestager, Farquhar
Gilmour, Griffith to launch satellites
Gold Coast firm Gilmour Space and Griffith University have signed a five-year deal to locally develop and launch low earth orbit satellites.
Decision time for Google in Australia
The $US1 trillion valued Google is playing hardball with Australian media over demands it pays to use their content.
Snooping on Google reveals stream of data from our phones
Meet Chuck and Diane, two Android smartphones loaded with software that feed you the information they feed the tech giant.
Canva valued at $1bn with a billion subscribers
In five years, Canva chief Melanie Perkins, 31, has turned her start-up graphics design software company into a venture worth $1.4bn.
Washington Post expands tech reporting
With newspapers globally downsizing staff, The Washington Post’s move to hire 11 new technology journalists has grabbed attention.
NASA lacks tech to colonise Mars
Colonising Mars could take much longer than previously thought.
Film fakes: pick the real Obama
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are helping to manipulate video and audio in frightening new ways.
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.
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.
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.
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.