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Swipe right: Who is accessing your dating app data?

Do you really know who’s looking at your dating app data? We don't mean your potential matches.

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Quantum computing: What’s the big deal?

Quantum technology could help solve challenges across a range of sectors. But what exactly is quantum technology and how will it be used?

One hack of a weekend

A tool to capture whale sounds and share them with the community and an app to help keep you cool in the city. These were the winning ideas from GovHack.

Game on: using augmented reality in prawn farming

We’re using gaming platforms, sensor technologies and next-gen data interaction techniques to help prawn farmers make decisions. Check out what we did at the recent D61+Live to demo the tech.

Tech

In data we trust: hacking a better future

We’ll be joining GovHack to bring hackers together across the country to supercharge science data and generate creative solutions.

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Deepfakes: danger in the digital age

As the technology behind deepfakes improves, the ability for audiences to distinguish fact from fiction is becoming increasingly difficult.

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Vaccinating machine learning against attacks

Vaccines aren’t just for humans. Our researchers have developed world-first techniques to 'vaccinate' algorithms against attacks, a significant advancement in machine learning research.

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Tech mate: Why Australia needs to embrace technology now

The fourth industrial revolution is coming. Instead of fearing it, Australia needs to embrace digital innovation and prepare for the future ahead.

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Interronauts | Episode 14: Robolibrarians, medical marijuana for pets, dwindling Antarctica, and +200 new species

Jesse and Ketan talk about robo-cars and thankless waves, medical marijuana for pets, a dwindling Antarctica, and our discovery of over 200 new species.

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Here’s what a privacy policy that’s easy to understand could look like

We need a simple system for categorising data privacy settings, similar to the way Creative Commons specifies how work can be legally shared.

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Supercharging science with the Pawsey Centre

New funding for the Pawsey Centre supercomputers will help to solve some of our biggest challenges as well as create new opportunities for our science.

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Farmers grab technology by the horns

We have a long history of farming in Australia but we’re looking at how the digital revolution is starting to change farming for the future.

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