Beyond Infinity

We speak to David Brim, CEO and co-founder of the Melbourne maker of rugged off-roaders. He outlines the origins and advantages of the Tomcar design, battles with bureaucracy and red tape, business expansion and plans to build only electric vehicles in the near future.

The Worldwide Developers Conference serves up the usual super-slick marketing blitz to the faithful ahead of hardware launches.

Our weekly news round-up: Siri to the rescue; Hobbits' evolutionary reversal on Flores; Growth in movie piracy; World's top 10 websites; Wave of Russian cyber attacks on the West, including DNC's Trump dirt file.

In the last of three interviews, Dr. Ian Storey ponders the future of work. Factory jobs continue to be lost to robots, while AI replaces white collar workers. We look at the awesome societal changes wrought by advances in computing, wearable tech and the internet.

Stimulating biased inheritance of particular genes to alter entire populations might one day stop malaria in Africa, but there are serious risks if the technology ever got out of control.

Our weekly news round-up: Kogan's float to institutions; ALP's revised vision for NBN; Fast and wireless with Google Fiber; Telstra outages; NASA to change course for Mars; Wild take down notices; Tesla collects detailed driver info; Companies stockpile bitcoin to pay ransomware crims; Heart lasts 555 days in a backpack; Juno ready for Jupiter orbit insertion on July 4.

Stimulating biased inheritance of particular genes to alter entire populations might one day stop malaria in Africa, but there are serious risks if the technology ever got out of control.

In the second of 3 interviews, we delve into the growing threat posed by various forms of cyber crime - to business, government and the internet itself.

Account holders of the leading remote access service may have had their computers compromised. John offers guidance for those effected.

Our weekly news round-up: 10,000 Aussies done in AGL ransomeware scam; Irongate - the Stuxnet worm revisited?; 642 million passwords stolen in megabreach; Ground level traffic lights for Sydney mobile tragics; Police to access mobile metadata after car accidents.