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The extinct Mukupirna - which translates to ‘big bones’ - is estimated to have been more than four times larger than any living wombat.
A range of announcement were made at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, including the new ‘CarKey’ feature, and Apple’s decision to part ways with chip manufacturer Intel.
Official government guidelines say businesses should not collect customer details in a book or notepad where other customers can see them. But many establishments haven’t heeded the advice.
Unlike the US, Australia hasn’t yet been hit by a large-scale disinformation campaign focussed on meddling with elections. But this is a ‘realistic prospect’ moving forward.
The watchdog has voiced concerns over the proposed US$2.1 billion merger, from which both users and Australian health services could lose out.
Facebook’s answer to proposed regulations hinges on understanding the value of news.
Australia is coming under sustained cyber attack by a ‘state-based’ actor, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as hackers try to exploit vulnerabilities in business and government software systems.
Photos from Queensland coal mines helped researchers discover a missing top predator in the ancient Australian food chain.
A swarm of roughly 40 million desert locusts can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 people.
Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.
There are more than 101 ways to immerse yourself in a foreign place, without having to leave your living room.
Women are in many ways ideal astronauts, but the world of space has been designed for men.
There are two types of time travel: going back in time and going forward in time. And remarkably, people can feel time at different rates - but usually don’t notice it.
The ancient bone arrowheads are the oldest ever found outside Africa, and show how humans adapted to a new environment.
Pepper spray uses a chemical called capsaicin. It’s the same compound that makes chillies hot, but in a more intense, weaponised form.
We found footprints that measure around 24 centimetres long. We suspect they came from animals with legs the same height as humans.
An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
You can’t own a human, so why can you own their remains? We need to stop treating human fossils as objects.
The distance between the ISS and Earth is the same as about 3,850 football fields. To bring the station down, rockets will lower it a bit, and then gravity will send it crashing the rest of the way.
Online dating platforms often provide a safe space for racist attitudes.
S. pneumoniae, the bacteria responsible for pneumonia, causes about one million deaths each year. Now we know how it uses the sugar raffinose to spread through the body to cause disease.
Algorithms can take much of the hard work out of tough decisions. But to avoid problems like the Robodebt debacle or unfair parole rulings, we need to ensure machines operate with human-like ethics.
There’s now a 95% chance COVID-19 has been eliminated in NZ, according to our modelling. But as NZ prepares to remove limits on large gatherings, it increases the risk of a very large new outbreak.
A largely wordless social media protest allowed many to take a political stand who might otherwise have stayed aloof