Jared Lynch

A company building virtual fences for cattle is out-hiring tech titans Canva and Atlassian, launching an international recruitment blitz that is making agriculture sexy again.

Apple has a new challenger, and it’s not Samsung. British-based Nothing is taking on the Cupertino-headquartered titan when it comes to design and uniqueness, offering ‘less distracting’ technology.

Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has revealed a workaround to make triple-0 calls was introduced for Australians who lost reception following the 3G shutdown.

Radek Sali, the founder of Australia’s biggest biohacking and longevity festival, intentionally switches off the health technology his own industry promotes.

A death in Sydney where a customer failed to connect to triple-0 has exposed a fatal flaw in Australia’s mobile networks, prompting telcos to issue urgent warnings.

Tony Costello envisions a world where animals don’t need to be slaughtered or dead bodies used to train surgeons, developing new technology in Melbourne that can do the same job for a fraction of the cost.

Samsung says it is building a platform that will make our mobile phones and other devices smarter not just for the next decade but for the “next century”.

Australians are weeks away from paying more for popular milk brands, including Pura and Dairy Farmers, with Bega Cheese seeking to recover a 30 per cent spike in the prices it pays farmers from the big supermarket chains.

Australias biggest private hospital operator, Ramsay, has saved health funds 16m in the past year but has failed to secure a new funding agreement with British health insurance giant Bupa.

Shares in the Amazon of medicinal cannabis, Cronos Australia, have surged more than 45 per cent, following the group generating record annual revenue.

British health insurance giant Bupa has extended its hospital funding agreement with Epworth HealthCare its third in as many months despite failing to break its stalemate with Australias biggest private hospital provider, Ramsay.

A SOUTH-WEST icon is facing the axe with Dennington’s historic timber railway bridge earmarked for demolition.VicTrack, which is responsible for the 119-year-old bridge and the former railway line, is seeking Heritage Victoria’s permission to knock down a section that spans the Merri River, west of the Fonterra factory.VicTrack believes the bridge, part of the former Terang-Port Fairy rail line, is unsafe and only a pot of money could save it. Dennington residents, river users and Warrnambool Ci…

WARRNAMBOOL Wolves are on the prowl to create a full-pitch local soccer league by next year.An experimental senior competition was launched at Harris Street Reserve this week, with three Wolves squads and a Hamilton team taking part.Club spokesman John Miles hoped the three-round trial competition, which would be held over the next five months, would grow into a local league.“There are a lot of players out there who want to play full-pitch soccer, but don’t want to travel,” he said.“We hope to c…

A FORMER Portland teacher looks set to become Australia’s first saint, with Pope Benedict XVI telling nuns Mother Mary MacKillop will be canonised.The pontiff visited Mother Mary’s tomb in Sydney yesterday.After a short prayer he told the nuns of the Sisters of St Joseph - the order Mother Mary founded - she would be granted sainthood as soon as the ``proper processes″ were completed.The family of seven-year-old Sophie Delezio, who cheated death after sustaining horrific injuries in two car acc…

AFTER winning his first competitive bout, 12-year-old Jaykeb Dowling’s next outing looks set to be to the hairdresser.The youngster, trained by Koroit’s Lyndon Edney, was one of four south-west boxers to clinch gold at Brunswick’s Reggio Calabria Club.Edney took Jaykeb, Dan Ryan, Tommy Castein and Warrick Eccles to the competition - the last outing for 2009 - held on the weekend.The trainer, who competed in the heavyweight division, said Jaykeb “boxed smart”, winning 2-0.But he said the youngste…

Elaine Gray, a 75-year-old retiree, received a letter from her employer of more than 20-years in late November 2014 – and it wasn’t an early Christmas card.

Increased labour costs at Spotless’ laundry businesses have been blamed as one of the biggest contributors to the company’s shock profit downgrade.