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GUEST INTERVIEW: We spoke to Andy Ridley and Ben Vozzo from the Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef plus Dell's Aruna Kolluru about the latest Great Reef Census and how Dell's servers and A.I. were helping. We learned how the Census - which involves monitoring sections of reef using professional and amateur photos - has accelerated dramatically in recent years, thanks to greater technology efficiencies plus gamified user interaction.

Photographs from the next Great Reef Census will be processed with help from a deep learning model developed by Dell Technologies for the Citizens of The Great Barrier Reef.

Google and CSIRO are using computer vision to detect damaging outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.

Australia’s reefs and marine ecosystems are at grave risk of mass bleachings and extinction, a marine heatwaves research briefing from the Climate Council has found.

The Australian arm of Chinese smartphone maker OPPO has donated $52,000 to help in restoration efforts for the Great Barrier Reef.

The Australian arm of Chinese smartphone vendor OPPO has partnered with the non-profit organisation The Reef Restoration Foundation to build an augmented reality app to raise awareness of the necessity to save the Great Barrier Reef.

A Queensland scientist is paving the way to establish new methods to stabilise Australia’s reef islands — including the Great Barrier Reef — that are vulnerable to erosion, while improving understanding of mineral carbonation as a method of carbon sequestration.

Twitter is claiming a world-first broadband of an “actual periscope view with a live underwater tour” when you tune in live on one of three Twitter handles tomorrow.

SumOfUs is depending on the power of YouTube to create opposition to Westpac's decision to fund the Carmichael coal mine despite fears expressed by environmental groups that it will affect the Great Barrier Reef.