Telehealth accounting for 20% of all Medicare-funded doctor consultations
Australian Medical Association has said the pandemic has shown telehealth works.
WhatsApp using QR codes to help initiate chats between brands and customers
The messaging platform is also making catalogs shareable.
Is Singapore ready to govern a digital population?
Amidst the country's accelerated digitalisation efforts, and as voters head to the polls, the Singapore government must realise it also needs to transform the way it engages its population, which increasingly will demand answers as more come online along with their personal data.
Queensland to allow more public service workers to avoid CBD offices post-COVID
The plan is aimed at reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission posed by public transport.
Q-CTRL and Advanced Navigation partner for quantum-based navigation systems
The pair have announced a global research and development partnership to offer 'high-precision' navigation products based on quantum sensing technology.
Amazon sweetens $1.3 billion Zoox acquisition with $100 million in stock to keep workers
On top of the $1.3 billion that Amazon has offered to acquire autonomous vehicle company Zoox, the company is paying a high cost to retain the talent.
Diversity continues to grow at Transform 2020
Transform's diversity program featuring the Women in AI Breakfast, Women in AI Awards and the Diversity and Inclusion Breakfast.
Amazon launches monitoring service AWS IoT SiteWise in general availability
Amazon this week announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed monitoring service for industrial customers.
Humans Vs AI
The more AI systems use data and how these systems are used, the more likely it is that humans and machines will work together, even if AI can replace humans in the digital workplace.
New machine learning framework enables efficiencies in quantum information processing
A new machine learning framework could pave the way for small, mobile quantum networks.
Here’s how Facebook found disinformation networks tied to Bolsonaro and Roger Stone
Facebook has taken down four disinformation networks focused on domestic politics. Here's how they operated, according to analyses by Graphika and DFRLab.
Nvidia brings Ampere A100 GPUs to Google Cloud
Just over a month after announcing its latest generation Ampere A100 GPU, Nvidia said this week that the powerhouse processor system is now available on Google Cloud.
Neuralink will share progress on linking human brains with AI next month
Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink says it will share progress next month on the company’s mission to link human brains with AI.
AI at the edge is enabling the push toward defect-free factories
On-floor factory edge computing is enabing manufacturers to identify 99.6% of errors before a product ever leaves the line.
AI researchers create testing tool to find bugs in NLP from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
A testing tool called CheckList found mistakes in commercially available AI from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft; CheckList won Best Paper award at ACL.
The Future Society, UNESCO, and others partner on pandemic decision-making platform
The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against COVID-19 (CAIAC) aims to provide decision makers with a platform to inform their choices.
Chrome and Firefox are getting support for the new AVIF image format
After Netflix, Windows 10, VLC, and a few image editors, the new AVIF image format is coming to web browsers.
How AI contributed to reducing Googles carbon footprint
In 2016 Google announced that it had cut the energy use of a select few data centres using AI. After this successful trial the program was rolled out to all 8 the data centres. Google innovatively used machine learning developed by a company called D