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Hi-tech Google Home and Alexa not smart enough to be error-free

Hi-tech Google Home and Alexa not smart enough to be error-free

“Alexa, make tea. Now”. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had our own intelligent robot house assistants to deal with the boring chores of everyday life? “Okay, Google, dim the lights”. So-called “smart homes” offer varying degrees of automated assistance, and Google Home, launched this week in Australia, is multi-talented – it can speak …read more

Mining billionaire ‘Twiggy’ Forrest follows Buffett and Gates

Mining billionaire 'Twiggy' Forrest follows Buffett and Gates

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and his wife Nicola were the first Australians to sign up to the “Giving Pledge,” a plan pioneered by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the very rich to donate more than half their accumulated wealth to worthy causes. Now the Forrests have fulfilled at least part of …read more