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• Sydney Metro driverless train passes “historic test”

  A Sydney Metro driverless train passed a “historic test” yesterday, crossing the future transport system’s new railway bridge over Windsor Road at Rouse Hill.

• Vocus' Perth to Singapore submarine cable laying commences

  The laying of Vocus’ 4,600km submarine cable system which will run from Perth to Singapore via Jakarta, Indonesia, and Christmas Island has begun.

• Four universities set to join forces with 'Sydney Quantum Academy'

  The city-wide initiative led by the University of Sydney is in partnership with Macquarie University, UNSW and University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

• Apple iPhone X launch sees hundreds line up in Sydney

  ​Hundreds of people lined up outside Apple’s store in central Sydney early on Friday to be the first to buy the new iPhone X.

• PepsiCo’s new agile HQ is no fizzer

  In December 2016, PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand completed the transformation of its corporate HQ in Chatswood, Sydney. Its traditional, siloed office was canned and replaced with a more agile working environment.

  The transformation at the multinational food, snack and beverage company was led by CIO Ursula Phillips.

  Phillips and her team have created a truly mobile workforce. All 300 staff members, including the CEO, received a laptop, mobile phone and Bluetooth earpiece. Office walls were replaced with open workspaces or 'neighbourhoods' where staff can collaborate at hot desks, in meeting rooms, chat spaces, and purpose-built video conference rooms.

• AirTrunk opens Sydney hyperscale data centre

  ​AirTrunk today opened the first of two new hyperscale data centres in Australia aimed squarely at large scale cloud providers.

• Microsoft’s Aussie quantum computing lab set to scale up next-gen devices

  ​New research gives way to the next chapter for Microsoft’s Station Q quantum computing lab at the University of Sydney.

• The stadium-scale humiliation of David Thodey

  ​Former Telstra CEO David Thodey has shared the story of how he was publicly shamed in front of an arena crowd by world-renowned diversity trainer Jane Elliott in what he calls “one of the most significant moments of my career."

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella releases the bots in Sydney

  ​Despite becoming the CEO of the world’s third biggest company in 2014, there was still one ambition Microsoft chief Satya Nadella had left unrealised.

• Don't get coy after gov's data snafu, say startups

  ​Champions of open data within government have turned “coy” following the Department of Health’s data privacy snafu last month, says the CEO of healthcare data analytics firm, Lorica Health.

• Another free Internet of Things network launches in Sydney

  ​A low power, long range wireless network for Internet of Things devices has launched in Sydney’s Barangaroo area.

• Malcolm Turnbull - STEM must be compulsory in senior school

  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to be made compulsory for all Australian students in senior years of high school, with such competency a requirement for university entry.

• 'Power event' at AWS knocks out websites and services

  A ‘power event’ at Amazon Web Services’ data centre in Sydney on Sunday night was to blame for hundreds of disgruntled end users unable to access websites and apps.

• Researchers find ancient volcanoes off Sydney coast

  Researchers have stumbled across four extinct volcanoes likely to be more 50 million years old around 250 kilometres off the coast of Sydney.

• Sydney financial tech startup hub to open in May

  A new co-working space in Sydney hopes to bring together financial tech startups into 1230 square metres of collaborative office space.