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A News Corp reporter has resorted to weasel words in a bid to again push the falsehood that the Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is pulling out of Australia.

In the midst of any national crisis, it is common to find people who want to make themselves heard somehow, even if they can only do so by making the most stupid statements possible. That is clearly the case with the utterance issued by Telstra chief executive Andrew Penn who has called on Australians to be more mindful of how they use the Internet.

The manufacturing industry may be going through a tough time but manufacturers will soon be able to create faster and more accurate 3D simulations of their factory production lines, with new developments in conjunction with CSIRO.

Financial advice can be a complex beast for even the most seasoned wolf of wall street, and one Aussie startup, described as Australia's first cloud based investment advisor, is here to help.

American global defence and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin has announced what could be a major breakthrough in the race to develop a power source based on nuclear fusion.

British 'superstar' physicist Brian Cox engaged Australian students with a live Q&A session on 14 October, streamed exclusively to registered schools as a part of his pre-tour in Australia, with the help of some Aussie 'digital roadies.'

Google has quietly announced the latest devices in its Nexus line, including a tablet, a massive phablet smartphone and the first device running Android TV - the Nexus Player.

Australian startup Canva has unleashed a new iPad app, just in time for the new set of Apple tablets expected to be announced tonight.

Despite facing a one week setback, Samsung's iPhone 6 challengers the Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge smartphones are now available for preorder.

Dell is expanding its Australian data centre offerings, today announcing two new data centre locations through its partner Digital Realty in Sydney and Melbourne, adding to Dell’s two existing data centres in Canberra and Brisbane.

Top-ranked Apache Hadoop distribution MapR today announced a new initiative to integrate Apache Drill, which provides instant, self-service data exploration across multiple data sources, with Apache Spark, the in-memory processing framework that provides speed, programming ease and real-time processing advantages.

The federal government has released its National Industry Investment and Competitiveness Agenda, and one key industry group has described the development as a "step forward", but also called for more focus on computer coding in education.

Google has numerous competitors spanning across multiple fields but former CEO Eric Schmidt has declared Amazon as the one Google is watching most.

Search giant Google is reportedly teaming up with other investors to plough about $500 million into hardware and software developer Magic Leap, to boost the company's plans for "cinematic reality", if new rumours are to be believed.

Sydney's UNSW are not slowing down at breaking records, today announcing a team of engineering students has been officially recognised as the new world record holders for the fastest electric vehicle over a distance of 500 kilometres.

Users of social photo sharing service Snapchat have every right to be snappy, after hackers posted some 200,000 photos online, including nude selfies.

Australia hasn't had many decent sporting results for a while but two UNSW research teams have done the country proud, finding solutions to a critical challenge that has held back the realisation of super powerful quantum computers.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) today welcomed the report into the federal government's ACARA curriculum review, but says certain elements are "concerning".

China-based tech giant Huawei is boosting its education credentials, today announcing a new partnership with Southern Cross University as part of a major overhaul of the University’s communications and campus security systems.

The company behind famed Norton antivirus software, Symantec, has followed in the footsteps of enterprises HP and eBay in announcing it will split into two separate companies.