When the last switchboard operator became extinct and the filing assistant closed the cabinet for the last time to join the lamplighters and ratcatchers we were, perhaps, mollified with the knowledge that newer, more interesting careers would open up before us.

This year's Byron Writers Festival witnessed a remarkable lecture from the legendary and much-loved journalist Kerry O'Brien, now a Northern Rivers local, on 'Lessons From History'.

In a first for a NSW government emergency services agency, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) has launched the latest tool in its technological arsenal, a drone that can ‘smell’.

Small and family businesses have just eleven days to make sure they don't have their vital business systems and equipment fail when the 3G network is switched off on 28 October, says the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Bruce Billson.

Coastal drowning deaths and drownings across NSW are up for the 2023-24 year, as detailed in the latest National Drowning Report.

Last week the world had a taste of the kind of chaos which was predicted, but failed to eventuate, 24 years ago. This time the millennium bug couldn't be blamed. Instead, a tiny human coding error temporarily paralysed banks, airports, media outlets and other organisations around the planet, connected by the cloud of data that binds us all.

A century and a half ago, the visionary Henry David Thoreau declared people had become ‘the tool of their tools.’  In this device-driven age of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence, few observations could be seen as more prescient. 

Ten trailblazers from diverse fields were honoured with prestigious prizes for tech and engineering at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering’s annual national awards last night.

A recent uptick in solar activity and its effects on infrastructure on and around Earth has raised concern about how the upcoming solar maximum will affect technology. So, what’s going on?

More research has come from a long running project in Queensland that reinforces the high quality of life people with Down syndrome are experiencing and can help block misinformation given to prospective parents.