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Harrison.ai, a Sydney-based healthcare artificial intelligence company, announced it has completed its first capital raise of A$29 million. Founded by brothers – Aengus Tran, a clinician and world-ranked AI engineer and Dimitry Tran, a healthcare technologist, the company has been bootstrapped since inception in 2018 and has a vision to

Telstra has retrofitted 300 NSW NRMA vehicles with Mobileye advanced driver technology which uses an artificial vision sensor to monitor the road for pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles.  The device consists of a single camera and a dashboard alert unit to give the driver visual and audible warnings. Mobileye, owned

Blockchain and IoT technology will enable $31 billion in food fraud savings globally by 2024 by immutably tracking food across the supply chain, according to research from Juniper, which identifies IBM, SAP and Oracle as leaders in the area. Substantial savings in food fraud will be realised from 2021 and

Australian food producers are trialling a new blockchain platform from KPMG to help keep track of their products across the globe.   KPMG in Australia, China and Japan today launched KPMG Origins, a blockchain-based ‘track and trace’ platform to support industries including agriculture, resources, manufacturing and financial services. Sign up for

Australian organisations are invited to enter an international competition designed to disrupt the infrastructure industry through new digitally-driven solutions. The InfraChallenge is looking for big ideas that will drive digital transformation in a sector that has not been widely disrupted by digitisation. Sign up for Which-50’s Irregular Insights newsletter The

Rio Tinto will invest A$10 million in a four-year national programme, targeted at school-age learners, that aims to fast-track the development of skills needed for the digital future, including critical thinking, problem-solving, automation, systems design, and data analytics. Sign up for Which-50’s Irregular Insights newsletter Launched this week at the

Australian robotics and AI sensor company, Advanced Navigation, has raised $20 million in a Series A round aiding the company’s global expansion and R&D for new robotics, navigation and sensor technologies.  The funding was led by Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO Innovation Fund, alongside US venture firms Brick and Mortar Ventures

Cybersecurity is considered one of the biggest threats to the world economy, but according to Australian researchers at State of Play, it will take a catastrophic event for it to be taken seriously in the mining industry. Through interviews, survey and deep analysis of Australia’s largest mining and service companies,

Accenture today opened an innovation hub for mining and energy companies in Perth, Western Australia.   The centre, located in Exchange Tower in Perth’s CBD, is a space for Accenture to work with its clients, technology providers, start-ups and academia to come up with ideas, prototype concepts and plan how to

By 2023, there will be more than 745,000 autonomous vehicles on the road according to a new report by Gartner.  This growth will predominately come from North America, Greater China and Western Europe as these regions become the first to introduce regulations around autonomous driving technology.  The study, Forecast Analysis: