Global IT vendor Unisys has inked a multi-year contract with Australia’s Department of Home Affairs to provide new enterprise biometric identification services to facilitate traveller processing and improve the ability to identify criminals and persons of national security interest.

A 5% fall in the value of Facebook shares on Monday followed the exposure last week of a leak of data from the social media giant that is claimed to have exposed details about more than 50 million users.

QBE Insurance is aligning its technology and transformation teams into a single business unit within its Australian and New Zealand Operations.

Australia’s peak national start-up group, StartupAUS, has lauded the federal government’s proposed introduction of a new visa scheme designed to help start-ups and business attract highly skilled global talent.

An international team of scientists, including personnel from the Australian National University, has published a paper in the British journal Nature detailing the finding of electrons outside their regular orbits.

One of the world’s foremost 5G experts has joined the Australian office of China’s largest telecoms company. The former head of 5G tech at Nokia Dr David Soldani has been appointed by Huawei Australia as its new Chief Technology Officer.

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