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A ground-breaking partnership between university researchers and a virtual reality start-up will allow people to experience the future before it arrives.
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Germany bans a children's doll capable of listening to children's conversations and responding in real time, with the country's telecommunications watchdog labelling the toy a "concealed surveillance device".
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| UpdatedToshiba may have reached the end of the road, with the Japanese company delaying a release of its earnings report amid a huge one-off loss.
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Two Adelaide programmers create a smartphone app that will text parents when their children are suspected of communicating with paedophiles online.
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| UpdatedThere's a new industrial revolution just around the corner, driven by artificial intelligence and robots. Deterioration within the key institutions of suffrage, education and land policy indicate that Australia may be one of the countries left behind this time.
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A mobile app to give the disabled a bigger voice, especially in emergencies, has been developed in a south-east Queensland hospital.
Topics: health, information-technology, people, healthcare-facilities, science-and-technology, mobile-phones, computers-and-technology, ipswich-4305
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In a renovated warehouse in Sydney's Chinatown, a group of entrepreneurs are working on projects they hope will crack the lucrative middle class market in Asia.
Topics: information-technology, small-business, business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, australia
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Yahoo users have been warned to change their passwords after a massive hack that may have affected more than 1 billion accounts. But a cyber security expert has warned that after an attack, there's not much end-users can do.
Topics: hacking, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, information-technology, information-and-communication, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian Taxation Office apologises after its data storage systems crash, taking down the agency's website, tax agent portal and case management system for more than two days.
Topics: government-and-politics, tax, information-technology, australia
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A Perth start-up develops technology it is likening to a "Bloomberg terminal" for lawyers, where they can access real-time data including court cases and government documents.
Topics: information-technology, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, judges-and-legal-profession, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedA new digital mapping tool allows women to tag places around the Melbourne CBD and surrounding suburbs where they feel safe or unsafe and leave comments describing their experiences.
Topics: women, social-media, information-technology, melbourne-3000
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The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also to stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, information-technology, australia
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Visitors to Canberra Airport will now be greeted by a new state-of-the-art advertisement that watches them while they are watching it.
Topics: advertising, information-technology, tourism, travel-and-tourism, canberra-2600, act, australia
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WA students have begun working with the Department of Agriculture and Food to create a snail-detection app, as part of coding club.
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Bundaberg region state high schools are encouraging girls to design and create wearable technology with the hope it will spark future careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.
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Australia's defences against cyber attacks need improving if it is to keep up with the growing threat of online crime and espionage, says the Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security Dan Tehan.
Topics: terrorism, information-technology, information-and-communication, security-intelligence, australia
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A program encouraging women to further their IT careers celebrates a 10-year milestone at Parliament House in Canberra.
Topics: women, computers-and-technology, information-technology, science, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government has announced a $17 million hi-tech education precinct in the Latrobe Valley is expected to be home to international technology giant Fujitsu.
Topics: information-technology, education, education-collaborative-projects, regional, government-and-politics, work, community-and-society, morwell-3840