The CSIRO says it has developed an algorithm to prevent deepfakes by shielding online images from artificial intelligence (AI) learning models. It says it has developed an algorithm that will ‘tweak’ images uploaded online so they are shielded from artificial […]
NSW is to join Victoria and Queensland in reviewing the use of electric scooters and bikes and is eyeing a temporary ban on allowing them on trains. The NSW government says the move has been prompted by safety worries over
Coral reefs off WA have been hit hard by a 2024-25 marine heatwave that was the longest, largest and most intense on record for the state, scientists and managers say. And temperature monitoring on site is revealing a hotter difference
The new Spirit of Tasmania IV ferry has arrived at Western Australia after a six-week journey from Scotland. The 212-metre 48,000-tonne vessel departed Leith in Scotland on June 30 on its 14,857 nautical mile voyage to Hobart. Spirit IV sailed
The Qld Department of Environment is asking for the public’s help to identify the owner of illegally dumped tires found in a national park last week. The department is tracking the person or business who dumped more than 550 tyres
TikTok is proving to be an increasingly popular and poor source for birth control advice among young people, according to new research. Lead researcher Dr Caroline de Moel-Mandel, from La Trobe’s School of Psychology and Public Health, says TikTok is proving to be a growing source of
Christchurch will celebrate its new stadium in style when Super Rugby Pacific’s Super Round heads across the Tasman next year. All 10 games in round 11 will be played at the NZ city’s One New Stadium at Te Kaha from
If ever a single mind could be said to embody the cultural movement that was the Renaissance in medieval Europe, Leonardo Da Vinci would be that mind. Painter, engineer, scientist, sculptor, architect and inventor, he lived from 1452 to 1519,
NASA has paid tribute to famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, who died last Thursday (US time) aged 97. Lovell is best known for commanding the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon which was derailed by an oxygen explosion, and
Conservation groups are firing up over the Queensland government’s mixed messages on the Great Barrier Reef and coal mining in the wake of the AIMS report. And they now want a stop to new coal mines in the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday region.
