Stories by Hamish Barwick

CSIRO telepresence robots connect students with National Museum

The National Museum in Canberra and CSIRO are trialling a virtual tour system using robots called B1 and B2. The robots, which contain telepresence technology, navigate the galleries of the Museum with a human staff member on hand to explain the exhibits.

ATechnology plans ahead with data centre migration

Planning and testing by ATechnology's IT manager Andrew Ruller ensured that when the Brisbane-based company decided to migrate 70 customers to a new data centre at Brisbane Airport, the migration was achieved over one weekend.

ABC hack a lesson for other companies: security experts

The data breach of 49,500 audience usernames and hashed versions of passwords from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website Making Australia Happy should serve as a lesson for other companies that deal with personal information, according to security industry experts.

Financial, health data dumped in Sydney rubbish bins

Some Sydney bank branches, lawyers' and doctors' offices have been found guilty of not properly disposing of personal information in rubbish bins which could be used by criminals for the purposes of fraud or identity theft following a private investigation.

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