Apple has announced that it will expand its operations in Austin, Texas, with a new campus to be built in North Austin at an estimated cost of US$1 billion.

A device that could be developed into ultra-sensitive cameras for security screening that would not require people to queue at airports, has been invented by a research team led by the Australian National University (ANU).

The world's biggest porn site, Pornhub, has issued its yearly report and the figures therein (traffic, not humans) are something for which every publisher on the face of the Earth would kill.

Communications alliance Commpete has claimed the proposed merger between Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom is a threat to competition between companies offering mobile services and welcomed the move by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to scrutinise the deal.

Researchers at the security firm McAfee claim to have found a new threat companies dealing in the nuclear, defence, energy and financial sectors, which they have named Operation Sharpshooter. It works only on Windows.

Telstra and Lexus are about to trial the use of C-V2X technology aimed at improving road safety. What is C-V2X technology you ask? You will have to read the story to find out.

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO has been selected to provide maintenance and operational support for the European Space Agency’s deep space tracking station at New Norcia in Western Australia.

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