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Young, talented and very, very fast: 23-year-old Oscar Piastri is one of the hottest drivers on the F1 grid – and he’s only in his second season.  

Melbourne-based journalists Zara McDonald and Michelle Andrews started Shameless Media in 2018 (on a bedroom floor) to fill a gap in celebrity news and reality TV podcasts. Initially a side-hustle, the duo turned their podcast into a fully-fledged media company with 15 staff. Their podcasts boast 100 million downloads, they have 1.3 million social followers across their channels and 110,000 newsletter subscribers. 

Funding for female founders rose from 11% of deals in Q2 to 13% in Q3. But its still down significantly from 2023. Techstars managing director Kirstin Hunter and Flying Fox Ventures’ Rachael Neumann say companies founded by women are not getting the resources they need to be successful.

The billionaire CEO said the new fleet of autonomous vehicles would cost $30,000 and launch before 2027, though Musk has blown by product timelines in the past.

With 22 Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal, Nadal is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Musk is returning to his old stomping ground of LA to lift the lid on Tesla’s Cybercab. In true Hollywood style, the reveal is happening on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank.

The Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation, founded by Melinda French Gates, has committed US$250 million (AU$371 million) to fund organisations working to improve women’s mental and physical health.

Aetherflux, founded by Baiju Bhatt, plans to build a constellation of satellites that can beam renewable energy to the surface using lasers.

At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.

Hurricane Milton is expected to be an “extremely dangerous” hurricane when it makes landfall in Florida on Wednesday night.