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Apple, GM, and Uber have abandoned their driverless dreams, and Tesla is under fire for its failures. But a Melbourne start-up, Applied EV, is still standing—and even turning a profit. When Julian Broadbent and Shane Ambry founded Applied EV in a Melbourne garage in 2015, there were confident predictions that full self-driving cars would be […]
Peter Magnisalis doesn’t ski. He’s never done his own property developments before. But he’s about to start building a $700 million indoor ski field, Winter Sports World. Here’s why. Winter Sports World managing directer Peter Magnisalis didn’t even know indoor snow-sports centres existed when he first came up with the idea of creating “a building […]
Comedian Merrick Watts finds that finishing the SAS entrance course has nothing on starting a gladiator-inspired business. Merrick Watts has just completed a morning shift on Triple M radio. He got out of bed at 3:45am having finished a comedy gig the night before at 10pm. And now he’s starting a full eight-hour day’s work […]
Synchron founder Tom Oxley explains to Forbes Australia how his partnership with NVIDIA and Apple is training AI direct from the brain to create a “flight simulator” for humans. Synchron unveiled its “Chiral” AI and its roadmap to using brain-computer interfaces to train AI direct from human neural activity at chip company NVIDIA’s GPU Technology […]
The ambitious Ulyssia project (named after the female version of Ulysses) promises to be a residential experience like no other – a floating community of like-minded, tech-connected individuals in a state-of-the-art, mostly glass 1,000-foot vessel travelling the world to exotic locales. Stewart Hawkins spoke to the project’s founder, naval architect and designer to discover why […]
These simple tips helped Ed Stack turn his father’s small business into a sporting goods empire worth over $18 billion. This story was featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. When Ed Stack started working at his father as a teenager, he hated it. Instead of playing baseball with his friends […]
Francis Wedin built Vulcan Energy into an $800 million green lithium powerhouse – and got the feuding Rinehart-Hancocks on his share registry. Francis Wedin was a 27-year-old fly-in-fly-out geologist at a West Australian gold mine in 2013 when he read an article about Tesla that would lead him to solving one of the more intractable […]
Dr Nicole Robinson and Dr Jürgen Leitner founded LYRO Robotics to solve an interesting agricultural robotics challenge – delicately yet firmly grasping and packing avocados. This story featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. When Dr Nicole Robinson was growing up in Melbourne in the early 2000s, she was fascinated by technology, robotics, […]
Coming out of the closet gave Talent CEO Mark Nielsen the courage to be a better businessman and the wisdom to know how to avoid the ‘Sunday Scaries’. From the time he was a child, Mark Nielsen knew he was different, but didn’t quite understand why. It would later turn out that a lot of […]
Concours d’Elegance jury chair Alessandra Giorgetti has the challenging task of helping choose the winner of this year’s Sydney event. Stewart Hawkins asked her about what distinguishes “haute automobilisme” from mere motoring enthusiasm. This story was featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. Passion is ethereal. What is it about automobiles […]