Australias

The legal battle seeks to protect Tesla's intellectual property rights and comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filed by Cap-XX against Tesla subsidiary Maxwell Technologies.Tesla sued Australian company Cap-XX in Texas federal court on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing energy in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary.Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged in 2014 not to "initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who,…

Credit: ArtHouseStudio/pexels Since Saturday, Australians have been required to wait until the age of 67 until they can get the age pension. The original so-called "retirement age" of 65 for men dated back to 1909. Women had their pension age lifted from 60 to 65 between 1995 and 2013. And all Australians have had it lifted in…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australia and Indonesia are forging closer economic ties built on what each country can offer the other in the transition to clean energy. Indonesia is emerging as a maker of electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. Australia has the lithium reserves Indonesia needs to do this.…

The AIIA survey for 2023 highlights the severe IT skills shortage in Australia. Discover our takeaways from the survey with our article. Image: Alex Kotliarskyi/Unsplash Australia remains woefully under-represented with IT skills, according to the recently published AIIA Digital State of the Nation 2023 report. Worse, the areas with the keenest skill shortages are those where skills will be most in demand. According to the report, skill shortages remain the single biggest inhibitor to business growth…

Reassembled partial skeleton Ambulator keanei (SAMA P54742) with silhouette demonstrating advanced adaptations for quadrupedal, graviportal walking. Credit: Jacob Van Zoelen (Flinders University)A new genus of diprotodontid has been identified through the use of 3D scanning technology.Paleontologists from Flinders University, utilizing advanced 3D scans and other cutting-edge technology, have provided a new perspective on the fragmentary remains of a 3.5 million-year-old marsupial from Central Australia, now identified as…

When the patient arrives, it can barely move its body. Sometimes it can’t blink. Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries—and fails—to fly. A nurse props up the bird’s limp, violet-blue head on a makeshift cushion and slides a bowl of nectar in front of its bright red beak. It is just one of dozens of rainbow lorikeets being treated for a mysterious paralyzing illness at this wildlife hospital in eastern Australia. Thousands of the birds are afflicted every year in the region, where they are a fixture in backyards,…

Kylie Minogue – Padam PadamFor fans of: Ava Max, Eurovision, all the fake-sounding RuPaul songsPadam Padam, the first single from Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming 16th album Tension, has proven as inescapable (and about as subtle) as an airborne virus. The track has been subject to hundreds of memes and thousands of text messages from mums to their gay sons: “What’s ‘padam’?”The memes, combined with the overt ridiculousness of the whole affair – a dead-serious Eurodance track built around the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeart…

Mount Keith nickel mine, Western Australia. Credit: Dr Gavin Mudd, RMIT. The Atlas of Australian Mine Waste was launched this week by Geoscience Australia in partnership with RMIT and University of Queensland researchers and geological surveys across the country. The online resource maps sites across Australia that could contain…

Reconstruction of an Australian pterosaur. Researchers have verified that pterosaur bones found in Australia over 30 years ago are the oldest of their kind, dating back to 107 million years ago. Credit: Peter Trusler107-million-year-old pterosaur bones, the oldest of their kind, have been confirmed by researchers in Australia, as reported in Historical Biology. The fossils, discovered over three decades ago, belonged to two distinct individuals, one of which was a juvenile — a first for Australia. The findings enhance our…

Australia's Tyro Payments shares dropped by nearly 20% on Monday after it said private equity firm Potentia Capital does not intend to proceed with a buyout proposal.Potentia had first offered to buy Tyro for A$1.27 per share in September, then improved its offer to A$1.60 in December which valued the Australian company at $A875 million. Tyro rejected both offers, saying they undervalued the company, but in January granted Potentia due diligence to consider tabling a higher offer. Tyro's shares were down as much as 19.9%…