Online banking services at the Commonwealth Bank, which were hit by an outage on Thursday, are returning to normal, the bank says in a statement issued early Friday morning, adding that the appearance of some payments in accounts may be delayed.

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has certified Samsung's Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones in Australia with "protected-level" status, this meeting the Australian Government’s stringent security standards.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has witnessed a rise of 24.4% in revenue for the third quarter of the calendar year, pulling in 610.8 billion yuan (US$85.6 billion), with a net profit margin of 8.7%.

Participants in a national Missing Persons Hackathon have generated 3,912 leads for 12 national missing person cases for Australian police.

Flinders University and the ACE Electric Vehicle Group will sign a research agreement on Friday to collaborate on the development and construction of a flat pack electric vehicle in Australia.

Four scientists from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have won the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation, one of the seven awards given each year as part of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

Machine data aggregator and analytics software company Splunk has announced a $US150m fund to invest in data startups.

Landlines may become extinct earlier than expected according to comparison website Finder which says that a recent survey of several thousand Australians reveals they are using mobiles and only have a home phone because it came with their Internet service.

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