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COMPANY NEWS: Critical infrastructures and essential service industries have been placed in the spotlight over the past two years and, as a result, Australia has made great progress in addressing threats against vital elements of our economy and society, says banking services, digital identity and cybersecurity company Thales.

COMPANY NEWS:  Workforce intelligence platform Reejig has been recognised by the World Economic Forum’s as 2022 Technology Pioneers for its work in helping global enterprises and governments find, move and upskill their workforces using the world’s first independently audited ethical talent AI.

The SAS chief technical officer Bryan Harris is on a personal mission. He wants humans at the centre of the innovation process, and he wants ethics in data. AI applied to healthcare and surgery may need to know someone’s gender and ethnicity, but AI applied to home loans should not use that as a factor at all. Harris is making clear irresponsible AI is right in his crosshairs.

Exploring solutions to support the new normal, Epson says it will “work with partners to help find solutions to societal issues”, alongside “participating in the Aizu Open Innovation (AOI) meeting through which it has begun collaborating with the University of Aizu.”

The term 'smart city' is a state of society rather than a state of technology - people should always come first. This does not appear to be the case in Australia.

ICT services giant NEC is rebranding its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies as “NEC the WISE” to reflect what it says is its “strong desire to facilitate co-operation between people and AI”.

Is MasterCard desperate for Australians to give up cash? Cash may ‘no longer be King’ according to a MasterCard survey, but is that just a credit card company’s dream scenario?

Crimes generally increase in the summer months once schools are let out, notably residential burglaries.Homes and businesses without a security system are believed to be 2-3 time more likely to be targeted. Auckland security firm, Fortress Security can attest that most incidents occur during the hours of darkness and usually to premises which have an absence of a security system.