Smart homes need to start treating their inhabitants better
Apr 21, 2016 06:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
We might still be some way from coming home to robots doing the cooking and cleaning for us, but the age of widespread home automation has arrived. More and more people now have intelligent versions of devices like...
The Cyber Security Strategy is only a small step in the right direction
Apr 21, 2016 05:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today released the governments Cyber Security Strategy. A total of A$230 million will be spent over the next four years to enhance Australias cyber security capability and deliver new...
Big data has not revolutionised medicine – we need big theory alongside it
Apr 20, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Science Technology
Science rests on data, of that there can be no doubt. But peer through the hot haze of hype surrounding the use of big data in biology and you will see plenty of cold facts that suggest we need fresh thinking if we are to...
Australia's first robotic help in a hip replacement operation
Apr 19, 2016 06:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The first robotically assisted hip replacement operation in Australia is due to be performed today on a patient in Brisbane. A total hip replacement (THR) is one of the most successful operations that surgeons perform,...
Data access inquiry casts the net far too wide
Apr 18, 2016 06:17 am UTC| Law Technology
The Australian Productivity Commission has launched a public inquiry into access and use of public and private data. The agenda of the inquiry is ambitious in both its timescale and its scope. So much so that it risks...
Britain's part in the 'drone war' in Yemen urgently needs explaining
Apr 14, 2016 16:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, more commonly known as drones, have become the most talked-about weapon of 21st-century warfare and whether used for surveillance or strikes, semi-secret drone programmes are an endless source of...
Did the earth move for you? How GPS tracks the slow movements of a world in motion
Apr 12, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature Technology
If you feel that the earth beneath your feet is moving, its because it is. Since the late 1980s geophysicists including myself have been building a network of advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments to...