Pure Battery Technologies is commercialising a process to extract nickel and cobalt from low-grade ores more cheaply and effectively than current methods. [ + ]

Unlike ordinary batteries, which take the same amount of time to charge no matter how many you have, quantum batteries should charge faster the more you have of them. [ + ]

The Macquarie and Analog Devices Teaching and Research Laboratory will bring industrial experience into Macquarie University in order to better prepare the next generation of engineers. [ + ]

A promising new type of graphene supercapacitor could be used in the next generation of wearable health sensors. [ + ]

The world's longest surviving first-generation computer has found a new home at Melbourne's Scienceworks museum. [ + ]

IT experts have devised a post-quantum secure privacy-preserving algorithm — so powerful it can thwart attacks from supercomputers of the future. [ + ]

The thin and flexible sensor can move with the airflow made by even the softest noises and addresses issues with accelerometers, microphones and similar sensors. [ + ]

UNSW researchers have tuned the control frequency of a qubit by engineering its atomic configuration — a new milestone in their approach to creating a quantum computer chip in silicon. [ + ]

IT media channel Technology Decisions has teamed up with the Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA) with the goal to promote and grow the IT sector in Australia. [ + ]

The Best Practice Guide: Battery Storage Equipment — Electrical Safety Requirements will provide important guidance for professionals installing energy storage units. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions. [ + ]

Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics has announced its acquisition of software specialist Draupner Graphics. [ + ]

US researchers have made one giant leap towards quantum computing with their demonstration of the first single-photon transistor using a semiconductor chip. [ + ]

Every year since 2004, at least 23,000 teams from more than 60 countries have taken part in the World Robot Olympiad competition. [ + ]

An international team of scientists have made an important step towards the control of excitonic effects in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. [ + ]