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  • Know Your Rights: Threat Of NBN Broadband Limbo Still Looms For Many

    Know Your Rights: Threat Of NBN Broadband Limbo Still Looms For Many

    New standards will force telcos to reconnect Australians to their old broadband service or mobile broadband within days if an NBN installation fails, but the rules still don’t apply to the majority of Aussie homes. Taking effect on September 21, the new NBN Service Continuity Standard is designed to break the broadband deadlock which has…


  • Australian Scientists Just Set A Quantum Computing World Record

    Australian Scientists Just Set A Quantum Computing World Record

    A team of scientists from the University of Melbourne are now not only dead set legends, but World Record holders in simulating quantum power on a classical computer. They crunched more quantum data than has ever been crunched before – more than a billion laptops worth, more than the largest supercomputer, even.


  • Hey Melbourne: Go Watch Australian Scientists Talk About Space

    Hey Melbourne: Go Watch Australian Scientists Talk About Space

    I’m in Sydney right now, and guess what that means? I can’t go watch Alan Duffy talk about Extragalactic Astronomy, Stefania Barsanti chat Massively Multiplexed Spectroscopic Surveys or Rajika Kuruwita explore Planetary Astrophysics. But if you’re in Melbourne – you can. Swinburne University of Technology is hosting the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society…