In what promises to be a massive shake-up of the supermarket industry, Amazon has opened the first of its Amazon Go retail outlets, a store where shoppers can walk in, pick up what they want and walk out without any need to stand in a queue to get the goods scanned.

The executive chairman of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, says that if Facebook wants to recognise "trusted" publishers then it should pay them a carriage fee similar to that paid by cable firms.

Is the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, planning to drop HFC altogether from its multi-technology mix that it adopted after 2013 for the network?

Cloud-based business software provider Freshworks has opened its first data centre in the Asia Pacific region, choosing Sydney to begin the expansion of its footprint in the region.

Technology solutions provider Data#3 has won a contract to create and manage a cloud-based file sharing and community collaboration solution for Australia’s Department of Finance.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has described the patches released by Intel for the Meltdown and Spectre bugs as "complete and utter garbage".

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