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Dyson’s new "spare-no-expense" laboratories at its new Technology Centre in Singapore features "exceptional engineers" focused on cutting edge manufacturing, software and robotics.

The new federal Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos has responsibility for innovation and science after being appointed to the portfolio by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a reshuffle of his ministry.

The Southern Cross Trans-Pacific Optical Research Testbed (SXTransPORT) dual submarine optical fibre links between Sydney and North America have been upgraded to 100Gbps.

Australian education company 3P Learning has received Microsoft’s major Partner award, honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating "excellence in innovation".

A new system jointly designed by Dell and CSIRO extends the 'software defined' concept to supercomputing, and is allowing researchers to get results more quickly.

Defence workers announced they have ‘voted down a wage offer from the Department of Defence that threatened workplace conditions’ that strips relevant workers of key rights.

Monash University's third-generation Massive supercomputer was officially commissioned yesterday.

The Science and Technology industry sectors have been one of the few growth areas for employment in Western Australia in an otherwise employment downturn for the State, according to a newly published jobs index.

The Federal Government has announced funding of nearly a million dollars to encourage more people of all ages and background to become more involved in science and research.

Australia’s science sector contributes more than a quarter of Australia’s economic output, with a newly released report showing that advances in the physical, mathematical and biological sciences in the past 20 to 30 years have underpinned $330 billion annually of that output.

FameLab is back with the British Council Australia inviting scientists, mathematicians and engineers to take part in FameLab 2016.

Intel Australia has congratulated the Australian government for putting innovation, science and tech at the heart of economic growth, repositioning ‘Australia for success as a robust knowledge-innovation economy.’

Adobe welcomes the Innovation Statement, ‘in particular the focus on talent and skills, which is crucial to Australia’s economic prosperity and ability to fully leverage the benefits of digital.’

There's more to business software than coding and user interface design. Scientific knowledge can be applied to improve business processes.

Engineer, respected neuroscientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, has been appointed Australia's next Chief Scientist and will take up the role in January 2016.

IT research group NICTA is merging with the CSIRO’s Digital Productivity flagship to create a new entity, Data61.

Australia’s chief defence scientist says the defence force needs to leverage advances in technology to maintain its capability edge.

Australia’s National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon, has come together with Samsung Electronics to launch a technology partnership to support future inventors, technologists and entrepreneurs.

Scientists say they have taken away valuable lessons from the latest trial of the joint Australia-US Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) program conducted recently at the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway.

National ICT Australia (NICTA) and the University of Sydney have collaborated to create the first digital map of seafloor sediments using artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.