Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has called together all the digital ministers to kick-start the rollout of a national identity system. | Continue reading
You can’t eat cell-based meat anywhere except Singapore, but that hasn’t stopped start-up Vow opening a huge factory in Sydney. | Continue reading
The viral video-app checks device location at least once an hour, continuously requests access to contacts, maps a device’s running apps and all installed apps, and more. | Continue reading
It will hand back deposits to customers and return its banking licence, marking another failure in the neobank experiment. | Continue reading
Declines in the prices of computer chips, shipping containers and fertiliser show that relief is coming from seemingly ever-rising prices. | Continue reading
Working from home is bad for business and workers; after all, if your job can be done from Brighton or Parramatta or Chatswood, it can probably also be done from Bangalore or Johannesburg, for a lot cheaper. | Continue reading
After nine months of hearings, seven judgments, and government spending of $2 million, we still know too little about the prosecutions of Bernard Collaery and Witness K. | Continue reading
If you’re going for a job at Afterpay, Woolworths or Qantas, your first interview is going to be with Phai, a bot that’s a smart interviewer. | Continue reading
Putin’s crackdown on dissent gives him space to present his mind-bending narrative of the war in Ukraine. Willingly or fearfully, many Russians accept it. | Continue reading
A handful of artificial intelligence-based tools has radically remade the way poker is played, especially at the highest levels of the game. | Continue reading
It is Canva’s largest backer, but the venture capital fund has backed a host of Aussie start-up successes and has revealed it has turned $1.3b into far more. | Continue reading
Insight Partners has made its earliest investment on record in the region, coming on as the lead investor in local start-up Relevance AI’s $US3 million round. | Continue reading
While the tech firm is happy to build an expensive low-emissions office tower, it’s a harder equation for developers more constrained by commercial realities. | Continue reading
CBA boss Matt Comyn urged financial regulators to step up and accept digital currencies, while crypto players responded cautiously to the bank’s moves. | Continue reading
The Commonwealth Bank’s move marks a coming of age for digital currencies, seen by some investors as hedges against decades of central bank profligacy. | Continue reading
The energy regulator is suing the company that owns the big battery for failing to deliver crucial grid stability services between July and November 2019. | Continue reading
In his first sit-down interview with Australian media, the Apple CEO explains why the ACCC is on his radar and why he still reads hundreds of customer emails every day. | Continue reading
A big report by the world’s scientists will predict global temperatures could rise beyond 1.5 degrees by early next decade, far earlier than expected. | Continue reading
Australia’s richest man, Andrew Forrest, has committed Fortescue to the world’s biggest hydro project to make the iron ore miner a global force in green energy. | Continue reading
A Cloud Guru, which provides online cloud computing training programs and was founded by two brothers, has been acquired by US company Pluralsight. | Continue reading
The company confirmed its brand name change had been a pre-April Fool’s Day joke, but the Securities and Exchange Commission may not see the funny side. | Continue reading
While the attack on Nine Entertainment’s North Sydney headquarters has the appearance of ransomware, it has not received any demands. The reason for the attack is also unclear. | Continue reading
When the owner of the world's biggest ship was conned out of €100 million, he set out for retribution. | Continue reading
Google is tweaking its search and news algorithm to bury links from Australian media outlets such as the Financial Review and Sydney Morning Herald for some users. | Continue reading
Anyone who is genuinely interested in why young people are moving to the left should look at the pyramid of credit that underpins the Australian economy. | Continue reading
Activist shorts are a company's worst nightmare and they are almost always right. | Continue reading
Spending $350 million on a new operating system is gutsy, given the history of major IT projects blowing up. But Orica's Alberton Calderon has done this three times. | Continue reading
The data centre, built in such a way that PNG's data could be spied on, has fallen into disrepair and may need to be shut down. | Continue reading
The Morrison government won't bow to Facebook's 'heavy-handed' attempts to block ground-breaking reforms of Big Tech platforms, with draft legislation being readied in case they don't accept a mandatory code of conduct. | Continue reading
As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on and boundaries between work and home continue to blur, more Australian workers are suffering from stress. | Continue reading
Major cyber security flaws were found in the Beijing-funded data centre in Port Moresby, where government files could be easily stolen without detection. | Continue reading
The Australian tech giant says it will 'measure outcomes, not clock hours' and hire talent from anywhere in the world, as it commits to a permanently flexible workforce. | Continue reading
Nortel was once a leader in wireless technology and accounted for 35 per cent of the Toronto stock exchange index. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei. | Continue reading
Australia's leading media outlets are considering an appeal to the High Court after a ruling that publishers can be sued for comments on their Facebook pages. | Continue reading
Outspoken immunologist Peter Doherty believes scientists could have a coronavirus vaccine ready by September. | Continue reading
Emirates' World Investments has written the largest cheque ever received by an Australian start-up seeking to take on the major banks. | Continue reading
The yawning discrepancy in growth rates, allied to the increased concentration of direct ownership in the stock market, still sends a strong message about the real economy and the way money is allocated. | Continue reading
Laos' government dropped the letter R sound from the alphabet, calling it a symbol of foreign influence.The widening reach of the internet is changing that. | Continue reading
Pegasus has flown under the radar for years, but its profitability and client roster has helped it lock in big bucks. | Continue reading
The directive is the first publicly-known instruction with specific targets given to Chinese buyers to switch to domestic technology vendors, and echoes efforts by Washington to curb the use of Chinese technology in the US and its allies. | Continue reading
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is responsible for the most value creating corporate transformation of the 21st century due to sweeping cultural and strategic changes at a company regulators once tried to break-up. | Continue reading
The German chancellor said the EU should claim 'digital sovereignty' by developing its own platform to manage data and reduce its reliance on the US-based cloud services run by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. | Continue reading
How many jet-set celebs does it take to fix global warming? Perhaps Prince Harry went shoeless to decrease the size of his footprint? | Continue reading
From keto and fasting to 5:2 and hundreds of supplements, the tech world's food “bio-hacking” is just another word for disordered eating. | Continue reading
Nor can many light festivals claim the sheer scale of this10-night program of arts and culture in Australia's red centre. | Continue reading
Australians have joined the Chinese in falling out of love with the Apple iPhone judging from the latest sales data released by online retailer Kogan.com. | Continue reading
The end of cash is very near. But you will still have to be disciplined about spending it. | Continue reading
In a legal complaint filed on Friday this woman said she did not know the iPhone XS had a notch when she pre-ordered the phone because of the marketing images. | Continue reading