Jared Lynch

Electrical vehicles are “very close” to turning into a home power station, delivering storage capacity that’s up to eight times greater than a Tesla Powerwall.

The fitness tracker on your wrist is now competing with your doctor’s office.

Amazon has unveiled its latest generation of Ring, Blink, Fire TV, and Echo devices in its “biggest ever” reveal, marking an aggressive strategic push to integrate artificial intelligence across its all its products.

The seeds of Optus’s fatal outage – sparked by a bungled firewall upgrade – were sown four years ago when the telco signed off on Project Peacock.

Samsung is advancing a strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into daily life with minimal user intervention, a concept the company terms “invisible AI” to make not only phones but homes smarter — a market worth more than $US1.3 trillion ($2 trillion), and growing.

Commonwealth Bank is determined to power ahead with its aggressive artificial intelligence strategy to make itself more “globally competitive” despite botching a plan to replace dozens of staff with bots.

Australians are overwhelmingly rejecting Atlassian billionaire Scott Farquhar’s push to overhaul copyright laws and allow tech giants to exploit creative works to train their AI models.

Australia’s green-hydrogen ambitions, plagued by “prohibitive” costs and a lack of demand, might have found their saviour in an innovative local technology.

Signal president Meredith Whittaker is prepared to withdraw the privacy-focused messaging app from Australia — saying she hopes it doesn’t become a “gangrenous foot” by poisoning its entire platform by forcing it to hand over its users’ encrypted data to authorities.

An Australian start-up has attracted the attention of Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass after it built a new platform to detect bushfires earlier, thanks to artificial intelligence.

China’s Hisense has delivered a show of strength at CES – the world’s biggest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas – increasing the size of its booth to fit its new range of massive TVs as US President-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose tariffs on foreign companies.

Australians are weeks away from paying more for popular milk brands, including Pura and Dairy Farmers, with Bega Cheese seeking to recover a 30 per cent spike in the prices it pays farmers from the big supermarket chains.

Australias biggest private hospital operator, Ramsay, has saved health funds 16m in the past year but has failed to secure a new funding agreement with British health insurance giant Bupa.

Shares in the Amazon of medicinal cannabis, Cronos Australia, have surged more than 45 per cent, following the group generating record annual revenue.

British health insurance giant Bupa has extended its hospital funding agreement with Epworth HealthCare its third in as many months despite failing to break its stalemate with Australias biggest private hospital provider, Ramsay.

A SOUTH-WEST icon is facing the axe with Dennington’s historic timber railway bridge earmarked for demolition.VicTrack, which is responsible for the 119-year-old bridge and the former railway line, is seeking Heritage Victoria’s permission to knock down a section that spans the Merri River, west of the Fonterra factory.VicTrack believes the bridge, part of the former Terang-Port Fairy rail line, is unsafe and only a pot of money could save it. Dennington residents, river users and Warrnambool Ci…

WARRNAMBOOL Wolves are on the prowl to create a full-pitch local soccer league by next year.An experimental senior competition was launched at Harris Street Reserve this week, with three Wolves squads and a Hamilton team taking part.Club spokesman John Miles hoped the three-round trial competition, which would be held over the next five months, would grow into a local league.“There are a lot of players out there who want to play full-pitch soccer, but don’t want to travel,” he said.“We hope to c…

A FORMER Portland teacher looks set to become Australia’s first saint, with Pope Benedict XVI telling nuns Mother Mary MacKillop will be canonised.The pontiff visited Mother Mary’s tomb in Sydney yesterday.After a short prayer he told the nuns of the Sisters of St Joseph - the order Mother Mary founded - she would be granted sainthood as soon as the ``proper processes″ were completed.The family of seven-year-old Sophie Delezio, who cheated death after sustaining horrific injuries in two car acc…

AFTER winning his first competitive bout, 12-year-old Jaykeb Dowling’s next outing looks set to be to the hairdresser.The youngster, trained by Koroit’s Lyndon Edney, was one of four south-west boxers to clinch gold at Brunswick’s Reggio Calabria Club.Edney took Jaykeb, Dan Ryan, Tommy Castein and Warrick Eccles to the competition - the last outing for 2009 - held on the weekend.The trainer, who competed in the heavyweight division, said Jaykeb “boxed smart”, winning 2-0.But he said the youngste…

Elaine Gray, a 75-year-old retiree, received a letter from her employer of more than 20-years in late November 2014 – and it wasn’t an early Christmas card.