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• New technology could help in SA cold case - Sky News Australia

  14-11-2016 23:46 via skynews.com.au
  
  Sky News Australia
  New technology could help in SA cold case
  Sky News Australia
  Fresh DNA testing using new technology is being considered as police conduct a review of a cold case murder in Adelaide. David Saint was the victim of a vicious bashing in 1991 and his body was found under bushes in the city's south parklands.and more »
  
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• As AMD mulls GPU for 32-core Zen chip, it develops software tools

  14-11-2016 22:39
  
  AMD has a clear-cut business plan: Its upcoming 32-core Zen chip will bring it back into high performance servers, and the company has expressed a desire to make high-performing GPUs for such systems.
  
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• China hints at retaliation against Apple and iPhones if trade war goes hot

  14-11-2016 22:14
  
  China yesterday signaled that any move to slap steep tariffs on goods imported into the U.S. would lead to retaliation.
  
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• GE buys ServiceMax for US$915M to boost its IoT power

  14-11-2016 21:38
  
  General Electric’s US$915 million acquisition of field service management company ServiceMax on Monday should help enterprises combine what GE does for industrial products and assets with more tools for those who work on them.
  
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• Cisco names 10 cities using its cloud-based smart service

  14-11-2016 21:30
  
  Cisco, which has promoted its smart city technologies for more than two years, announced that 10 cities, including Paris and Copenhagen, are using its cloud-based service to connect to traffic, parking and environmental sensors in real time.
  
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• Aurora Energy CIO leaves after six months in role

  14-11-2016 21:30
  
  The chief information officer of Aurora Energy quit the company earlier this month, a spokesperson for the electricity retailer has confirmed to Computerworld Australia.
  
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• Three customer service robots land in San Jose airport

  14-11-2016 21:25
  
  Mineta San Jose International Airport makes history as the first U.S. airport to utilize robotic assistants.
  
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• Web developers get their own browser

  14-11-2016 21:13
  
  Blisk draws on Google's Chromium with tools for developing, debugging, and testing websites
  
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• UK approves extradition of British hacker to the US

  14-11-2016 21:00
  
  A U.K. official has ordered the extradition of a British man to the U.S. on charges of hacking government computers belonging to NASA and the Department of Defense.
  
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• Cray aims for the 500-petaflop mark with XC50 supercomputer

  14-11-2016 18:34
  
  The fastest computer in the world today can deliver about 125 petaflops of performance, but that could quadruple in the coming years.
  
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• Small businesses now get CRM tool with their Office subscription

  14-11-2016 18:00
  
  Microsoft launched Monday its Outlook Customer Manager, a lightweight CRM system. It allows users to track their customers, manage deals in progress, track tasks and more, all from their Outlook email client.
  
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• Startup Forward Networks helps search, protect and predict network behavior

  14-11-2016 17:52
  
  A startup backed by PhD researchers at Stanford who developed some of the earliest software defined networks has a startup that creates a software copy of networks, allowing users to better understand the behavior of their environment.
  
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• 37% of IT pros to look for new jobs in 2017

  14-11-2016 17:00
  
  More than half of IT pros believe they’re underpaid, yet only 24% expect a salary increase greater than 5% in 2017, and only 12% expect a promotion, according to Spiceworks’ 2017 Tech Career Outlook.
  
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• DoS technique lets a single laptop take down an enterprise firewall

  14-11-2016 16:32
  
  Researchers have found a new attack technique in the wild that allows a single laptop to take down high-bandwidth enterprise firewalls.
  
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• China still has the two most powerful supercomputers in the world

  14-11-2016 15:00
  
  China’s Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 have maintained their lead in supercomputers, according to the Top500 supercomputer rankings.
  
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• Samsung boosts audio, connected car businesses with $8B Harman buy

  14-11-2016 13:49
  
  Samsung Electronics wants to buy its way into the connected car market, with a plan to acquire Harman for US$8 billion.
  
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• As Watson matures, IBM plans more AI hardware and software

  14-11-2016 11:01
  
  Just over five years ago, IBM's Watson supercomputer crushed opponents in the televised quiz show Jeopardy. It was a preview of how artificially intelligent computers would storm into our daily lives.
  
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• 412 million FriendFinder Network accounts said to be exposed in hack

  14-11-2016 06:51
  
  Over 412 million accounts on dating and entertainment network FriendFinder Networks have been exposed, the second time that the network has been breached in two years, according to a popular breach notification website.
  
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• Telstra takes stake in IT support platform provider

  14-11-2016 05:32
  
  Telstra Ventures today announced it had made a “strategic” investment in US-based company Boomtown, which provides an app that allows IT support and training to be delivered via live chat or video.
  
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• Disruption and innovation come from collaboration, not technology - SmartCompany.com.au

  14-11-2016 05:03 via smartcompany.com.au
  
  SmartCompany.com.au
  Disruption and innovation come from collaboration, not technology
  SmartCompany.com.au
  There's currently much talk about the disruption technology is causing in the business world, but this discussion often misses a key point. Technology doesn't disrupt; people do. Technology doesn't innovate; people do. People are your organisation's ...
  
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• CSIRO seeks petaflop supercomputer

  14-11-2016 04:11
  
  The CSIRO has invited tenders for a replacement of its BRAGG supercomputer cluster, with the organisation hoping to have a new petaflop-capable system up and running in the first half of next year.
  
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