Author: Justin Hendry

Australia-US sign space technology treaty

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Australia and the United States have signed off on a long-awaited space technology sharing agreement, giving American space companies the green light to conduct launches from Australian spaceports. The...

All-in-one digital identity credentials with Data Zoo

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When Tony Fitzgibbon launched Data Zoo a decade ago, data had begun to transform the world. It was in 2006 that British mathematician Clive Humby declared that “data is...

Sicona, the Aussie battery innovator charging ahead

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From a manufacturing plant 85km south of Sydney, a local startup is producing materials for the likes of Tesla, Panasonic and Samsung. Sicona Battery Technologies is commercialising a next-generation...

Australia, US help finance Google’s new Pacific cable

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The federal government will spend almost $80 million connecting smaller Pacific Island nations to a new trans-Pacific subsea cable to be be built by Google between Australia and the...

The cutting-edge tech preventing prawn pathogens

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Every year, pathogens cost the global aquaculture industry about $US6 billion. And this is at a time when food production globally needs to jump by more than 50 percent...

$20m in home-grown tech bound for Ukraine

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Australia will provide Ukraine with $20 million worth of home-grown technology, including counter-drone systems and deployable 3D printers, as part of its latest military assistance package. Prime Minister Anthony...

WA boosts funding for remote space control centre

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The Western Australian government has more than doubled its commitment to the state’s remote space operations control complex, positioning the facility as a go-to hub for space operations and...