Wellbeing

Bitcoin crash unsettles financial markets, with 'contagion' fears surfacing

Bitcoin had recent volatile exchange rates, hitting a high and recently loosing 25%. Sceptics warn against widespread investment as it doesn't pay interest, it doesn't pay dividends and it has no intrinsic value.
4 minutes
Technology & Innovation

US Report on Emerging Military Technologies

Rapid advances across six emerging technologies are compressing decision time, raising ethical risk, and reshaping how power is applied—favouring speed and automation, while increasing the danger of error, escalation, and loss of human control.
5 minutes
Strategic Influence

China’s merchant-military fleet

China is blending commercial shipping with advanced launch systems and drones, creating cheap, flexible platforms that complicate monitoring, blur civilian roles and shift the balance toward scale, persistence and surprise in contested maritime environments.
5 minutes
Technology & Innovation

Excel: The software that's hard to quit

Although 40 years old, Excel is still common software within organisations. Critics allege it’s a blocker to other systems with data security and integrity problems. AI or machine learning systems can offer smoother workflows.
4 minutes
Wellbeing

Negative facial expressions interfere with the perception of cause and effect

Negative facial expressions make it harder to judge cause and effect in social situations. They draw attention but drain mental resources—reducing accurate prediction; while positive expressions allow clearer pattern recognition.
7 minutes
Technology & Innovation

Australia unveils tech, AI investments

Australia is investing nearly $40 million to advance AI and emerging technologies that strengthen the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) Decision Advantage across air, land, maritime, space and cyber domains, in an increasingly complex information environment.
2 minutes
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