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Natural-language conversations with computers aren't new but there's something a little special about Amelia.

Australian research has found the nation's hottest year - including the hottest day, spring, summer and month - was virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused global warming.

The US, UK and New Zealand are surging ahead while we in Australia continue to obsess over the perpetual downturn.

Just two years ago Benjamin Hurst was living in New York taking creative writing classes. Now he's CEO of a medical start-up that's scoring big wins in Australia.

Markets on both sides of the Atlantic fell as unrest in Hong Kong weighed on investor sentiment, while the iron ore price slipped further.

The health insurer has been valued by investment banks at up to $5.7bn, while law firm Spruson & Ferguson is pressing ahead with its own IPO.

The strategy put in play by George Savvides and Mathias Cormann requires a few key ingredients to ensure its success.

Australia is giving extremist leaders the ammunition they need to bring their fight to our shores.

Just when you thought you had a reasonable handle on the internet, in terms of how it can make your life easier, and how it can help you grow wealth, a new internet wave is coming our way - big time. It's called the 'Internet of Things', and it's got the potential to connect 28 billion 'things' to the internet by 2020, ranging from bracelets to cars.

Consumer spending accounts for 53 per cent of the economy (real GDP), so the degree to which households decide to spend or save is critical to the economic outlook. A major positive for spending of late is rising household wealth, but we should not overestimate its impact, as weak income growth poses a major offsetting downside risk to consumer spending.

The household savings rate is on a downtrend, spelling good news for the equities market and the economy at large.

This leading developer of video compression and image processing semiconductors is benefiting from GoPro's success … and other opportunities are on the horizon.

This week we look at Nufarm, TPG, ALS, Atlas Iron and New Hope Corporation.

Stretched valuations in Australian tech and biotech stocks have created opportunities for short sellers.

Despite a short-term shock for local manufacturers reliant on gas, it's in their own long-term interests as well as the national interest, that resources be developed without domestic reservation quotas.

Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang and the Communist Party's survival may all be at stake in Hong Kong this week.