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    Senators Nick Minchin and Helen Coonan today opened fire in the Senate on communications minister Stephen Conroy in a joint attack marking the commencement of Minchin's term as shadow minister.

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    How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging.

  • Bank card attack: Only Martians are safe

    Security researchers from Cambridge University have discovered a way to attack chip and PIN cards -- and warn only Martian cardholders are safe from the exploit.

  • Fibre optic networks to break light speed?

    German scientists claim to have broken the light speed barrier, which could blow away the known limitations of modern networking but the technology is unlikely to make it into a product -- if at all -- until most administrators working today have retired.

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    It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.

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  • Quantum leaps

    It's not Star Trek, but quantum computing looks set to revolutionise the way we do computing.

  • Opera casts off legacy code for speed

    Opera, the self-described "fastest browser on earth," has decided to jettison its legacy code in favor of something a little faster.

  • ELSA Gloria II 64MB

    Powered by the nVidia Quadro chip, with 64MB of SDRAM and a 350-MHz RAMDAC, the affordable ELSA Gloria II demonstrated excellent geometry processing and is suitable for MCAD designers.

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