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This is a factual writeup. Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. Youve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. Youve heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. Fools. The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It ...

Share this article STOCKHOLM, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The automotive technology company Veoneer, Inc. (NYSE: VNE and SSE: VNE SDB) has signed an agreement with pioneering LiDAR company Baraja to industrialize their Spectrum-Scan™ LiDAR technology for the next market wave of L2+ through L4 autonomous vehicle applications. Under the non-exclusive agreement, Veoneer will develop, market and integrate a scalable Spectrum-Scan™ platform from Baraja to serve the automotive market. Veonee...

Adam Gilmour, founder and chief of Gilmour Space Technologies. Source: Supplied. Gilmour Space blasted onto the tech pages with news of its $61 million raise this morning, proving the Aussie space scene is attracting interest — and big cheques. It’s the latest in a string of huge funding announcements for local startups. But it also follows an uptick in activity in the Aussie space tech scene. RMIT is set to launch a space hub to support businesses seeking satellite data, and the Australian...

Chipper Cash co-founders Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled. Source: TechCrunch. In a week that saw Memories raise a whopping $31 million, Ivvy bag $7 million and Mys Tyler secure $1 million in seed funding, there has been plenty of other funding news we haven’t been able to cover in full. This week’s bumper startup funding round includes AR for eating out (and entertaining the kids at the same time), tech for oyster farmers, and backing for two separate renewable energy storage projects. He...

iTWire Wednesday, 09 June 2021 14:28 Castlepoint attracts $3 million in capital raising Shares Canberra-based AI compliance software specialist Castlepoint Systems has successfully completed its $3 million series A funding round. Castlepoints series A round was led by Main Sequence, the investment fund created by CSIRO, and existing investor IxTx also participated. Castlepoint uses AI to automatically discover, classify and control every document, email, chat message, database, o...

Main Sequence is a deep tech venture capital firm that is looking to find Australian solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. It takes some of the country's most cutting-edge technology and creates companies around it, such as using CSIRO research to create plant-based meat company v2food.

CBA-led investment round sweetened with deal that will see Amber offer its energy products to the bank's substantial customer base.

BeeNext, Vostok Emerging Finance, Quona Capital, and ICU Ventures are investors in Finja.

Save Share A solid plan to get skilled immigration and more local experts flowing into the tech sector; clearer definitions and more regular payments of research and development incentives; fewer bureaucratic roadblocks; and a stronger embrace of science and renewable energy. These are among the items leaders in Australia’s tech and innovation industries are asking of the government ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget. Paul Stovell of OCtopus Deploy, Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-B...

About this event Public and private investment in quantum technology is on the rise around the world. Current estimates state the global industry will be valued at close to $86 billion by 2040. What does this mean for the Australian market and our homegrown Australian startups? How can budding entrepreneurs get a slice of the action? Cicada Innovations in partnership with the Sydney Quantum Academy’s ‘Quantum Innovators Network’ presents a panel of quantum founders to discuss th...