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• Inside ‘The RIC’: Data61’s new robotics test facility

  CSIRO’s Data61 has launched a 600-square-metre test facility, for researchers and industry to put robots through their paces in a variety of environments.

• Mind your metaphors: Why CIOs’ choice of corporate jargon counts

  We often use them without thinking, but they should be used with care.

• Superheroes of STEM use powers of ‘storytelling’ to inspire girls

  GWI consulting director and CIO, Dr Vanessa Douglas-Savage, is on a mission to get 10,000 girls in STEM by 2020.

• Psychopaths work well under abusive bosses: study

  Psychopaths get a bum rap. For most of us the term brings to mind the axe-wielding, Huey Lewis and the News fan Patrick Bateman of American Psycho, but in psychological terms, we all sit on the spectrum of this personality trait.

• CSIRO steps up diabetic eye disease AI software trial

  ​AI software is being rolled out to 20 GP clinics in Western Australia to screen patients for diabetic retinopathy.

• CSIRO says hello to new CISO

  The CSIRO has appointed Jayne Leighton as chief information security officer.

• NSW govt backs quantum computing with $26m fund

  The New South Wales government has announced a $26 million fund to support the commercialisation of quantum computing in the state.

• CSIRO heads to US as Trump muzzles science agencies

  ​CSIRO is opening a permanent office in San Francisco in a bid to help Australian tech innovators tap the US market.

• ​CSIRO seeks CISO to give hackers heave-ho

  Australia’s national science agency is seeking a chief information security officer to lead its new cyber defence function.

• Teleporting a photon leads researchers to quantum security

  It's still early days, but teleporting photons could lead to unbreakable security; tampering with photons creates obvious changes in code keys.

• CSIRO cuts ‘degrade and tarnish’ agency: Senator Carr

  ​Shadow minister for innovation, Senator Kim Carr has denounced the Federal Government’s latest cuts to the CSIRO, describing the axing of 275 jobs and the closure of critical climate research programs as "degrading".

• ​Human Services to hire 150 tech grads

  The Department of Human Services (DHS) – the government agency responsible for the rollout of the $1 billion welfare payment system – is recruiting 150 graduates with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) qualifications.
  

• AIIA criticises government's latest STEM report

  The Federal Government’s recent report on how to encourage and leverage STEM skills in Australia has failed to provide any clear pathway to achieve current objectives, according the AIIA.
  

• Australia’s SKA Pathfinder telescope finds a galaxy

  The SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), one of the world most high tech radio telescopes, has made a breakthrough in finding a galaxy five billion light years away.

• Nobel Prize in Physics a Blue LED Special

  Three university researchers, two in Japan and one in the United States, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention in the early 1990s of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy efficient breakthrough in producing longer-lasting white light.