I am an award-winning journalist with an unquenchable passion for technology who has written across a wide range of subjects during 30 years of media reporting in print, online and broadcast media.
Mainstream media roles include Consumer Affairs Reporter, Legal Affairs Reporter, City Hall Reporter, Assistant Chief of Staff, Deputy News Editor online, Media Development Editor and for 10 years as Senior Technology Journalist at The Australian newspaper. Recent specialities include artificial intelligence, telecommunications, digital copyright and consumer product reviews, including reviewing all forms of modern electric transport. I was also founding editor of indigenous newspaper Land Rights Queensland.
I’m available for special projects such as freelance news and feature writing, newspaper, TV and radio commentary, technical report writing, media training and strategies, MCing and conducting classes around using specific consumer technology. Feel free to contact me at crgriffo@gmail.com.
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AI drugs targeting proteins are in the pipeline
AI-developed drugs that target proteins will become available in clinics within a couple of years.
‘Clicks’ creates a BlackBerry style keyboard for iPhones
Clicks has created the unthinkable addition of a BlackBerry-style clickable keyboard for the iPhone.
HMD Global lets users repair their own phones
HMD Global has joined brands letting owners repair their devices.
Workday rates skills ahead of degrees for job placements
Workday has released software to its 10,000 corporate and business customers that puts the attainment of thousands of skills ahead of formal degree qualifications.
Authors could lose in AI-related theft of almost 200,000 titles
Shawn Presser has horrified the world’s authors and publishers by publishing almost 200,000 pirated titles online.
Authors, artists take the fight to Big Tech over AI
Associations covering artists, authors and publishers have hit out at big tech firms for wanting Australia to water down its copyright law.
Innovation is the key to our renewable future
A goal of 82 percent renewable electricity by 2030 has become part of the Albanese Government’s climate target rhetoric.
Workday to offer generative AI for HR management
Workday has announced a rollout of new generative AI applications that aim to automate the operation of corporations worldwide.
Apple channels the Mars rover in iPhone 15 upgrade
A USB-C socket instead of Lightning, titanium pro models and a reprogrammable mute switch were among features announced by Apple at its overnight iPhone launch in Cupertino.
Ric Richardson to crush malware
Prolific Australian inventor Ric Richardson is back with an operating system modification that he says will stop malware and ransomware in its tracks.