While Australians were celebrating the arrival of 2021, off the coast of eastern Australia the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor was busy mapping the seabed with a drone for a hugely ambitious global project, Seabed 2030, to produce a definitive...
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The Western Australian government has granted $2 million to young company International Graphite which plans the state’s first micronising and graphite foil manufacturing facility for the former coal mining...
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Like the villain in a bad horror movie, COVIDSafe refuses to die. It has been a staggering fall from grace for the contact tracing app, heralded as the “ticket”...
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Square’s acquisition of Australian tech firm Afterpay for $39 billion will be a boon for the local tech sector and might make the ASX more attractive for other growing...
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Western Australia’s new services and ICT minister Don Punch has vowed to keep citizens at the centre of the state’s rapidly transforming services program and to work more constructively...
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The federal government will release draft legislation within weeks to further crackdown on social media firms, with a focus on improving transparency around the handling of user data. Representatives...
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The Victorian government has poached Services Australia’s chief information officer to run its new centralised IT services entity Digital Victoria, while consulting giant Deloitte has hoovered up more high...
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An Australian Court has ruled that a machine can be named as the inventor of a patent. The world-first decision answers a key legal question being tested in several...
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Home Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo says government has serious concerns with the security posture of global cloud computing giants like Amazon and Microsoft, and warned tightening data sovereignty requirements...
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The Department of Education, Skills and Employment has handed more than $4 million worth of contracts to local firms to probe its cyber defences this year, as part of...
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Researchers at Sydney University and quantum control startup Q-CTRL have detailed a new way to identify sources of error in quantum computers using machine learning techniques which they say...
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Fewer than 800 people who tested positive for coronavirus in Australia had the COVIDsafe app and shared its data for contact tracing, according to a long-overdue government report into...
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Western Australia’s new Innovation Minister Don Punch wants more IP kept in the state, government services reshaped around citizen needs, and to grow the local ICT sector through state...
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A number of companies are now lining up in a race to secure major orders for electric buses from states such as New South Wales determined to electrify their...