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​Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has seen a 400 per cent increase in the number of payments made with a mobile since it introduced Apple Pay in January, the bank revealed today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A cloud-based flight path simulator, which determines the most efficient route airplanes can take to reach their destination, is set to save Qantas millions of dollars in fuel, the airline's CEO Alan Joyce said today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drivers could earn cryptocurrency credit by enabling their vehicles to report road condition data, in a trial being run by manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study of 31 Australian households which have installed smart home technology has found the early adopters are concerned about the potential security threats for women, and the gendered stereotypes reinforced by virtual assistants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Microsoft talks a good game about its cloud computing platform Azure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have spoken in public together for the first time at a conference in Scotland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Cairns Regional Council has bought an automated parking enforcement system which combines computer vision and GPS to enforce restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Commonwealth Bank of Australia says it has begun rolling out accessibility upgrades to its Albert point-of-sale device, following a lengthy legal battle that settled in December. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Melbourne has been selected as the host of a national AI lab, pledged by Labor if it wins the upcoming federal election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Australia is "too remote" to host Kaspersky Lab's planned Asia Pacific transparency centre, the company's vice president of public affairs has revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Researchers at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have demonstrated how a small, square, printed patch can be used as "cloaking device" to hide people from AI object detectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Nearly 40 per cent of 'Gen Y' consumers use digital means to make everyday purchases, a survey commissioned by the bank has found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Sydney start-up Q-CTRL is releasing an open source library of error suppression controls for quantum computers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) should create new ambassador positions to serve Silicon Valley and China's tech giants, says Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma in a report released today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​As the drummers in LED-studded military uniforms exit the stage at the opening ceremony of Kaspersky Lab's Singapore summit, on walks Eugene Kaspersky in a blue linen shirt, jeans and trainers, an SLR camera slung round his neck. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kaspersky Lab's dealings with ASUS after revealing the Taiwanese computer brand's live software update tool was being used to install a malicious backdoor on its customer's computers were marred by a language barrier, the timing of Lunar New Year and wrangling over a non-disclosure agreement, it has been revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​'Are you an optimist?' was the question put to Paul Vixie last week at Kaspersky's security analyst summit in Singapore, when he took to the stage to receive the security company's 'MVP' award. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When you forget your Gmail password, and have two factor authentication (2FA) enabled, Google will SMS or call you with a six to eight digit code. You enter the code (Google calls this 2-step verification) and gain access to your account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers have uncovered an invitation-only Tor-concealed marketplace where stolen credit card details are bundled with the victim's device fingerprint, meaning criminal buyers can use them to beat numerous fraud detection systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Intrusion activity attributed to the same group which attacked the industrial safety systems of a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in 2017 has been uncovered at a second facility, security researchers have confirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​In November last year, Foxtel launched a standalone streaming service dubbed the 'Netflix of sport'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A team of researchers from CSIRO's Data61 and their robots are heading to an abandoned gold mine in the Colorado mountains this weekend, to take part in an exercise run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The government is seeking the public's concerns about artificial intelligence, as it works towards formulating a national AI ethics framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Legislation that will see social media companies and executives face hefty fines with jail time for failing quickly remove violent content from their platforms, passed the Senate last night with minimal debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A group of leading AI researchers from industry and academia have signed an open letter calling on Amazon to "stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Staff at the New South Wales Government's Data Analytics Centre (DAC) are receiving ethics training to ensure they "take the responsibilities of citizen data seriously", it has been revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Microsoft president Brad Smith has called on the public not to "lose that sense of frustration" at technology companies in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Train a machine learning model to detect 'toxic' words in online comments and it comes to some depressing conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Government plans to fine social media companies up to 10 per cent of their annual turnover for failing to quickly remove violent material from their platforms sets a "dangerous precedent", according to the president of the Law Council of Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​​Australian over-65s are more comfortable going under the knife of a robot surgeon than younger generations, an Accenture survey has found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith paints a bleak picture of a future where facial recognition technology has been rolled out without restriction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A blockchain-based 'data monetisation platform' being launched by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and automotive manufacturing firm Continental, could see vehicles become mobile weather stations and drivers receive cash-back for sharing their data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The encryption bill, intended to help police and national security agencies intercept online communications, could turn Australian companies 'into Huaweis', technology chiefs have warned today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attorney-General Christian Porter says the case made today by social media companies against a legislative response to the live streaming of criminal offending was "thoroughly underwhelming". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Fortescue Metals Group is launching an autonomous vehicle research and development hub in the Pilbara region town of Karratha. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Companies give CEOs a pay rise while cutting dividend payments and research and development investment in the wake of a data breach, analysis by researchers at Warwick Business School has revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Executives from Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter will meet with Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, to discuss measures to curb 'hate content' on their platforms, it has been reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​New model Volvo vehicles will automatically pull over and call for assistance if a driver is driving erratically or not focusing on the road, the manufacturer has announced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A cohort of students are preparing to start a revived mainframe degree course this winter, a program welcomed by employers faced with a looming skills crisis within their organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Commercial law firm Macpherson Kelley has appointed Andrew Mitchell as its new chief information officer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australia's largest independent grocery retailer has partnered with the country's biggest family-owned meat processing firm to trace beef steaks back to their farm of origin using blockchain technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The mobile data terminals (MDTs) that have been rolled out across New South Wales are proving so popular that Fire and Rescue officials are considering temporarily shutting them off to test firefighters' ability to cope without them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​NEC claims its facial recognition technology has successfully foiled an attempt by a problem gambler using disguises to try and gain entry to an Australian casino. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​File hosting and collaboration platform Dropbox will launch a 'Sydney Region' during the second half of the year, the company announced this morning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australia's major telcos have temporarily blocked a number of sites hosting footage of Friday's terror attack in Christchurch, with the action following a plea from New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs to prevent it from being shared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inmates at two 'pop-up' prisons in New South Wales are being delivered drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs via touchscreen terminals in their cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collaborative spirit within the quantum computing research community is bearing fruit with joint research by scientists at UNSW and the University of Sydney which has "overcome a fundamental hurdle" in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Australia was one of seven nations to sign a treaty in Rome this week, to establish the intergovernmental organisation that will deliver the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Atlassian is starting an Australia-wide assessment of its employees and the teams they work on to gauge their suitability for remote working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dr Jai Galliott – an academic at UNSW Canberra – used to be against fully autonomous weapons, an emerging class of military technology that leverages artificial intelligence to select and shoot enemies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]