Stephen Rue, the outgoing CEO of NBN Co, has been announced as the new chief executive of Optus.

A major data breach has affected thousands of family violence and sexual assault victims.

Australian researchers are working on a new conductor that only conducts when needed.

Apple has announced an unprecedented US$110 billion buyback.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled significant reforms to Australia's foreign investment policy.

NBN Co says it has surpassed its fibre connection targets this year.

A report into the Optus triple-0 catastrophe has recommended industry-wide changes.

Researchers are growing bacteria into wires for electronics.

Australia is expanding water quality monitoring from space.

A concerningly high rate of people admit to using technology to sexually harass colleagues at work.

The Australian government has invested $1 billion in the US-based quantum computer startup, PsiQuantum.

Progress has been made on a National Firearms Register decades in the making.

The Government wants public input on a plan to expand the eSafety Commissioner’s powers.

One of the world’s richest people is set to test Australia's online safety laws.

Top cops have asked big tech firms for more help.

A technological breakthrough has allowed NASA to regain communication with a distant spacecraft.

Local authorities have responded to new TikTok laws in the US.

Bitcoin’s big shift has cut rewards and shifted the mining landscape.

Luxottica, the eyewear retailer behind OPSM, Oakley, and Sunglass Hut, has been fined over $1.5 million for spamming.

Energy supplies could be holding back the next generation of artificial intelligence services.

An international research team has recently introduced the most extensive and intricate 3D map of the universe ever produced.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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