Startups

Many have voiced concerns privacy and data concerns about the COVIDSafe app. But how does it work? And are those concerns founded?

Australia's privacy watchdog has launched court proceedings against Facebook, and consumers should hope this is only the first of many more actions by the privacy regulator.

Pause Fest was three days of meet-and-greets, workshops, revelations and revelry. SmartCompany was there to soak it all in.

Canadian AI startup BlueDot first raised the coronavirus alarm on New Year’s Eve, a week before the World Health Organisation and the US Centre of Disease Control.

BlackBerry has announced it will end its partnership with TCL Communication, its hardware producer, just as the smartphone market revives.

Virtual reality may pave the way for myriad new opportunities to improve remotely delivered mental health care.

As Australia continues to experience devastating bushfires, now's the time to harness new technological tools to help prevent future disaster.

By Mark Liu, University of Technology Sydney

The tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook have all begun to use machine learning to give y…

The future of forecasting for Bitcoin — and perhaps for investing in general — could be in artificial intelligence and neural networks.

By Jason Middleton, UNSW

When the American aerospace company Bell Nexus unveiled an air taxi at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in La…