Aussie whiz-kid eyes next project after selling video chat app to rival
Aussie high-school dropout and tech entrepreneur Ben Pasternak has sold his Monkey video chat app to HOLLA to invest time in a new project.
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The case for making maths mandatory in high school
Without maths the option to enter into a STEM degree is removed.
His name is a household word. Who was he?
In the age of Edison, Westinghouse, Marconi and JP Morgan, Nikola Tesla was a giant of innovation.
From Hyderabad to Nashville: creating entrepreneur hubs
Australian cities can learn from other small cities creating global hubs for entrepreneurs.
Up 1226%: ASX's best stock is one you've never heard of
Technology isn't big on the Australian sharemarket, but it has provided investors with a stock that has soared 1,226 per cent this year.
Ryan, 6, makes $15m a year reviewing toys on YouTube
For kids these days, some of the biggest stars are not actors, but YouTube stars. Ryan is one of the biggest.
Elon Musk isn't joking about sending a Tesla to Mars
Elon Musk fully intends to put a red sports car made by a company that he runs into an enormous rocketship made by another company that he runs and then fire both into Mars orbit.
Aussie entrepreneur wants to end the 'plastic age'
The fire destroying SKM Recycling facility in Melbourne last year has paved the way Australian entrepreneur Priyanka Bakaya to open a new recycling facility in Victoria within two years.
There's a dark side to the shiny electric car future
You can't power an electric car without a lithium-ion battery and you can't make a battery without using cobalt. Most of that comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country racked by political instability, legal opacity and, at its darkest, child labour in its mines.
'Unrecognisable': Robots will run mines within a decade
Some mines in the next decade will run without humans and instead rely on robots, virtual models and sensors, according to global mining giant Anglo American.
Australian company SpeeDx wants to stop STI superbugs
There is a sexually transmitted infection that is very common but little known to most people. One Aussie company wants to help fight it.
Elon Musk's giant battery is ready for testing in SA
The billionaire's giant battery being built in South Australia will be energised in coming days and begin testing, indicating Tesla is on track to meet a 100-day self-imposed deadline to install the system.
Would you fly in a pilotless jet? Airbus thinks so
Plane manufacturers including Airbus and Boeing are racing to develop artificial intelligence that will one day enable computers to fly planes without human beings at the controls.
'He needs money, and quickly': Elon Musk's Tesla burning through $10,500 a minute
Tesla is designing a new sports car that could go from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds. But here's a number that investors may want to focus on.
How Facebook is taking over automotive marketing
Facebook isn't in the business of listing and selling cars. Yet. But it is already allowing consumers to test drive cars from their couch via its apps.
Tesla unveils its Roadster, the 'fastest production car ... ever'
0-60mph in 1.9 secs, new record of 620 miles on one charge, 250mph-plus, it's a 'smackdown' to petrol cars.
The eccentric investor with $122 billion to spend and 300 years to spend it
The world's most important tech investor is from Japan, not Silicon Valley - and he is a long-term thinker.
Short king bets against Tesla, predicts Musk will leave
High-profile short-seller Jim Chanos has stepped up his bets against electric car maker Tesla throughout the year, making some dire predictions even as the company's shares rallied.
The growth without inflation trick is one out of the box
Why have U.S. stocks risen so high over the past year? That debate has focused on the costs of Trumpian instability versus the benefits of corporate tax cuts, but there's another important angle: Investors now seem to think that steady growth and low inflation are compatible.
Tesla a 'hotbed for racist behaviour' workers claim
Tesla's production floor is a "hotbed for racist behaviour," more than 100 African-American employees claimed in a lawsuit.
'You can beat' Amazon, says powerful Aussie tech investor
Fears of Amazon's total dominance in e-commerce are overblown, says high-profile Silicon Valley investor Jeremy Liew. And Snapchat isn't doomed either, he reckons.
Flying cars? Uber, NASA see them in Los Angeles skies by 2020
Uber has a host of issues to contend with, from remaking its corporate culture to battling unfriendly cities - is forging ahead with its flying car plans.
Are we ready for the rise of the robots?
Should we fear what the future holds? In just a week's time, innovators and scientists from around the world will converge on Melbourne to talk about it.
'Time is ticking': Tesla's Elon Musk in 'eighth hell'
The latest setbacks with Tesla's new Model 3 lengthen the wait for hundreds of thousands of customers and extend the payoff period for the billions of dollars the company has spent to expand.
Amazon's real business is not about retail
Amazon estimates that 42 of Australia's top 50 tech companies use its Amazon Web Services business.
Company directors see need to improve corporate culture
Greg Medcraft's message for boards to take greater responsibility for corporate culture may finally be getting through to the nation's company directors.
'Why would women speak up?': the 'chilling' effect of powerful men
There are "loud voices" working against gender equality, says UN as Special Rapporteur for Discrimination Against Women, Elizabeth Broderick.
Why Sophia the robot is not what it seems
Sophia and its robo-chauvinism sounds like the premise for a Halloween horror movie.
Facebook has bigger questions to answer than its role in the US election
For months, Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, has been in crisis mode, furiously attempting to contain the damage stemming from its role in last year's presidential campaign. But it has bigger problems globally.
Elon Musk has spent a year being wrong about self-driving Teslas
A year ago, Tesla set up a hastily organised conference call between Elon Musk and reporters.