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Jan 6, 2025 | 
raconteur.net | Tom Watts
In a rapidly evolving world, forward-thinking businesses are increasingly considering the role of digital assets in their business model to better support secure, efficient, and compliant financial infrastructure. The 2024 New Value Survey by Ripple, the leader in digital asset infrastructure for financial services, demonstrates how the management and usage of digital assets is helping to transform how value is created, stored, managed and moved in the European region and beyond.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
raconteur.net | Tom Watts
While there have been widespread concerns about AI’s impact on creative roles and industries, the future of creatives and AI working together doesn’t have to be negative. Raconteur sat down with Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, group chief operating officer at Northern Data Group to discuss how AI can become a collaborator in creative work, rather than a replacement for human artistry. Q Rosanne, to kick us off, how do you see the AI landscape today?
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
raconteur.net | Tom Watts |Oliver Pickup
For centuries, supply chains have mainly operated in the dark. Even in our hyper-connected era, supply chain visibility and sustainability remain critical challenges, with the latest Proxima Supply Chain Barometer revealing that 86% of chief executives see significant hurdles with supply chain resiliency. This is driving a growing sense of urgency, with 55% of CEOs planning to dedicate more time to supply chain topics than in the last year.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
raconteur.net | Tom Watts |Alec Fenn
The rapid digital transformation of healthcare is equipping individuals with tools to manage their health from home, reshaping patient care. Technologies such as AI-powered apps and remote monitoring devices are driving a shift toward preventative care, enabling clinicians to detect health issues earlier and intervene proactively.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Denham Sadler |Tom Watts
Startups tackling issues ranging from being able to settle on Mars to recycling EV batteries and helping entrepreneurs with ADHD to maintain their focus are among seven ideas to emerge from the 2024 cohort of the Australia and New Zealand Founder Institute accelerator program.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Denham Sadler |Tom Watts
Robotics startup Nexobot has raised $400,000 in pre-Seed funding to deliver an affordable solution for order fulfilment in smaller warehouses. The round was backed by Skalata and Antler, to help smaller retailers and others compete against the multi million-dollar robotic systems deployed by the likes of Amazon.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Harrison Polites |Simon Thomsen |Denham Sadler |Tom Watts
Chris Hansford tempted fate buying a second-hand Steam Deck off Facebook marketplace. He wasn’t scammed, and his model arrived as advertised. It was instead an unfortunate case of terrible timing. Hansford purchased the device a few weeks before the company announced they would start selling the Steam Deck in Australia in late November. Had he known, he just would have waited. “I had just assumed we were missing out on the Steam Deck,” he said.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
theoaklandpress.com | Tom Watts
MADISON HEIGHTS — Madison Heights Lamphere’s rise to become the No. 2-ranked high school football program in Division 4, in terms of playoff points, at least, is not by accident. A blue-collar, middle class community known for its industrial businesses and marine life artist Wyland, Lamphere is creating an identity of its own as the Rams head into the playoffs for its fourth straight season.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Tom Watts
October 26, 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of director James Cameron’s science fiction classic, The Terminator – a film that popularised society’s fear of machines that can’t be reasoned with, and that “absolutely will not stop … until you are dead”, as one character memorably puts it. The plot concerns a super-intelligent AI system called Skynet which has taken over the world by initiating nuclear war.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
raconteur.net | Tom Watts |Daniel Thomas
In many ways there has never been a more uncertain time to be a global manufacturer. While there are still huge opportunities out there for the taking, long-standing problems such as economic volatility, talent shortages and supply chain risks continue to put pressure on firms. Moreover, new and more complex business challenges have come to the fore, including a fast-evolving regulatory landscape, the increased risk of cyberattacks and the disruption caused by rapid technological change.
