Innovation

TikTok’s Chinese parent company is recruiting across the U.S. for experts in science and healthcare disciplines far afield from social media. Its motives are unclear.

Google Australia announced a $1 billion investment in Australian digital initiatives in 2021. Two years on, Forbes Australia is given exclusive access to the ‘Hearing Hub,’ a recipient of the funds allocated under the Digital Futures Initiative. The Hub – headquartered at Sydney’s Macquarie University – brings together non-profits, the research community, and powerhouses like ASX Cochlear Limited.

2023 saw a number of different milestones that laid the foundation for a thriving space economy in the next decade.

Apple won a temporary victory in their patent dispute over new Apple Watch models.

From the safest airlines to the submarine crash that stopped the world – we’ve looked through the numbers to find the top 10 most-read stories on Forbes Australia in 2023.

Imports and sales of Apple Watches with blood oxygen detection technology are officially banned, as an October ruling that the technology infringed on a patent officially took effect Tuesday.

The WHO said vapes are dangerous but “have been allowed on the open market and aggressively marketed to young people.”

What does it take to bring a Tasmanian tiger back from the dead? A Texan tech entrepreneur, a Nobel prize-winning breakthrough in gene editing, and a partnership with the world’s greatest geneticist. Also, investors such as billionaire Thomas Tull, the Hemsworth brothers, an Australian-based family trust, and the CIA. 

ChatGPT will summarize Politico, Business Insider articles in an unprecedented agreement between OpenAI and publisher Axel Springer.

The term AI joined the global lexicon a year ago, and Aussies have been googling up a tech-storm ever since. Here are Google’s Top 10 trending tech terms for 2023