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A coding error has led Optus to announce it will pay back millions of dollars to thousands of customers it overcharged.
Red Cross shows technology's role in disaster response
As fires rage across New South Wales, a Red Cross report reiterates the importance of the technological response to disasters.
Turnbull looks to de-cloak Huawei concerns
The Communications Minister has signalled he may relax the ban which has kept Chinese telecom Huawei from bringing its low-cost business style to the NBN.
Innovation straight from the horse's hoof
Australian scientists are helping horse-racing canter into a new age, with stylish footwear to boot.
Light shines through British public cloud
Reports have emerged praising the streamlining and cost-cutting possibilities of cloud computing facilities for government sectors, with results in Britain showing the public sector can reach efficiency goals through better software.
Grasping touch for replacement limbs
If humans are ever to wield robotic limbs, we will need to know what they are feeling. New research has taken the first steps toward that ability.
Study probes maths-brains for mind-monitoring
A recent study has shown a little bit more of the mind’s inner-workings, and taken steps down the path to mind-reading devices.
Delivery drones to rain knowledge from the sky
An Australian Company is looking to fill the skies with drones, but not the nasty kind - the kind that delivers knowledge-bombs in the form of textbooks.
Laser sights set on finite device
Australian scientists have started a countdown to create one of the most precise atomic clocks yet, and then fire it into space.
Printed plastic prosthetic is a peek of new age
An exhibition in London has seen a glimpse of either the future of prosthetics – or the first stages of a cut-price, plastic Terminator.
Start-ups start dropping millions on engineers
There is one Twitter employee whose disproportionate paycheque is no doubt the talk of the water cooler, after revelations one engineer is paid $10 million a year for his skills.
AliBaba hints at chance of gross gains for grocers
A senior executive has detailed the challenges faced by China’s central force in online business – AliBaba – which could lead to opportunities for Australian businesses.
Better IT could usher new age of health
A recent report suggests Australia’s health industries are falling behind on the benefits of IT integration into services.
Delays hit Tas. hardest as NBN work rolls up
Figures reportedly obtained by Australian media sources show work on Tasmanian sections of the National Broadband Network has ground to a halt.
Google sliding sideways in security stakes
The company many consider to be a beacon for good practice in a sea of ‘evil’ may have switched to the dark side.
Quantum computing speeds up, one photon at a time
A team has created a device which can only deliver very little, but also gives out a lot.
Questions to check if tech. has really helped
A Monash University expert has questioned the place of digital technology for higher education, finding that sometimes the old way is still the best for students and teachers.
Google book to give managers a piece of Schmidt
Now that he has left one of the most coveted positions in the IT-business arena, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been using his time to write, it seems.
CSIRO helps shoppers face reality online
The risk of buying clothes online is well-known to shoppers these days, but science may help remove that fear.
Adobe hacked, source codes and info jacked
Millions of users on some of the most popular software in the world will have to wonder who holds their data, with Adobe revealing it was hacked and had masses of information stolen.
Chair's future furnished in 3-D
A mysterious new company is aiming to print wooden furniture in three dimensions.