A radical new chip design invented by engineers at the UNSW-based Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) promises to make the manufacture of silicon-based quantum computers dramatically cheaper and easier than was previously thought possible.
Australia’s first driverless shuttle trial turned a year old this week, during which the bus has clocked up more than 4200 km in autonomous mode.
Chief information officer of the Northern Territory Department of Education, Satpinder Daroch is leaving the organisation after nine years.
Specialist recruitment firm Hays is employing artificial intelligence to accelerate the screening of candidates.
Canberra Data Centres (CDC) has started construction on a 20MW data centre in Fyshwick, Canberra.
Earlier this week robotics and artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to help prevent the “third revolution in warfare”: lethal autonomous weapons.
Macquarie University has appointed David Reeve as its chief information officer.
Can a friendly humanoid robot help take some of the stress out of air travel? That’s the question being posed by researchers from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s innovation lab this week in a series of experiments at Sydney International Airport.
Women in cyber security face “persistent and enduring barriers” a review of research commissioned by the Office of the Cyber Security Special Adviser has revealed.
Australia's first quantum computing hardware company launched today, with the goal of producing a 10 qubit integrated circuit prototype by 2022.
Bureaucrats and diplomats may have fallen victim to a new malware dropper, delivered under the guise of a G20 ‘Save the date’ document.
The University of Sydney has launched an ‘Immersive Learning Laboratory’ containing what it claims to be the largest number of virtual reality devices in an Australian education institution.
Seven councils in rural Queensland have clubbed together to roll out a free public Wi-Fi network being dubbed the ‘Outback Telegraph’.
The government’s delivery of digital services will be scrutinised in a Senate inquiry which is due to report by the end of the year.
The operator of the Australian Securities Exchange, ASX, will complete an assessment of blockchain-style distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a replacement for its CHESS system by the end of the year, the company said today.