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Call for inquiry as CSIRO comes under the microscope

Exclusive: Confidential reviews of the CSIRO by some of the world's most accomplished scientists show that the once great institution is now unable to act in the best interests of advancing research. Nicky Phillips and Linton Besser report.

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Accusations CSIRO puts dollars before distinctions

Nicky Phillips and Linton Besser | Publish or perish.

Novartis, minister launch inquiries

Linton Besser and Nicky Phillips | Global drug giant Novartis has begun an ''internal investigation'' into a five-year deal it signed with a CSIRO spin-off company.

NBN street cabinets 'hideous'

JONATHAN SWAN | They look like giant refrigerators and 60,000 of them could be coming to a footpath near you.

Australia falling further behind in IT

BEN GRUBB 5:03pm | Could our risk averse culture be holding us back?

Hijacking planes with Android phone

8:31am | Hackers could use their Android phones to hijack aeroplanes, says security researcher.

Bitcoin bursts: currency's wild ride

10:13am | Bitcoin has registered catastrophic losses that have sent speculators scrambling.

Winklevoss twins Bitcoin moguls

10:15am | Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been many things in a short time, and now they are Bitcoin moguls.

Redditor confesses to murder

10:38am | A Reddit user has used a popular meme to confess to an apparent murder.

Microsoft 7" Surface: report

10:27am | Microsoft is working on 7-inch tablet in an effort to catch up to rivals such as Apple, according to reports.

Emergency app to be replaced

Fire authorities will rebuild their emergency warning smartphone application that struggled during the worst bushfire season since Black Saturday.

Sydney gets real-time train apps

BEN GRUBB 4:24pm | Sydney train commuters are now able to track in real-time how far away their train is with smartphone apps.

Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted in photos

9:07am | A Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and mysteriously stopped working may have been spotted in NASA images.

Google gets 'digital estate planning'

9:27am | Google is now letting people plan out what is to be done with their digital lives after they die.

Is broadband utopia a pipedream?

Generic Hong Kong for U Banquet story. Photo supplied. Shown is Causeway Bay

Tony Brown 4:12pm | Asia's fibre-to-the-home dreamland is not all it seems, says a telco analyst who believes the Coalition's alternative NBN plan is better.

Coalition NBN backward: Oakeshott

Independent MP Rob Oakeshott has slammed the coalition's NBN plan, saying it represents "backward thinking".

Investors eye in Google Glass

11:32am | Venture firms are teaming up to provide funding for start-ups working with Google Glass.

Cybercrime ring attacks games

11:23am | Chinese hacking ring broke into online video gaming companies and stole valuable source code, researchers say.

IBM given 'dry run' in payroll bid

10:09am | Contractor has admitted giving the global IT giant a 'dry run' in the bidding for the Queensland Health payroll system contract.

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