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• Queensland University of Technology Tests New Tech For Cycling - Women Love Tech (press release) (blog)

  09-12-2016 23:57 via womenlovetech.com
  
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  Queensland University of Technology Tests New Tech For Cycling
  Women Love Tech (press release) (blog)
  A QUT-led bid to test and measure the distance between bicycles and cars travelling on Queensland roads has won a QLD Government tender. QUT's Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) is set to trial the technology to ...
  
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• AirPods miss is not Apple's first holiday sales flub

  09-12-2016 22:03
  
  Apple's inability to ship its new AirPods wireless ear buds before this year'sholiday sales season wasn't its first such misstep.
  
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• Rails web framework dumps jQuery

  09-12-2016 20:45
  
  The venerated library is being removed in favor of a new Ruby gem that uses vanilla JavaScript
  
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• Intel, Microsoft going long distance with Cortana on Windows 10 PCs

  09-12-2016 20:03
  
  Intel and Microsoft are working on technology so you can shout out commands to Cortana or activate a PC from far.
  
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• Obama orders review of election hacks as Trump doubts Russia's role

  09-12-2016 19:46
  
  President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a full review of the cyberattacks that allegedly tried to disrupt this year's election, as his successor Donald Trump casts doubt over Russia's possible involvement.
  
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• Ransomware attacks against businesses increased threefold in 2016

  09-12-2016 18:43
  
  The number of ransomware attacks targeting companies increased threefold from January to September, affecting one in every five businesses worldwide.
  
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• Tech Tent: Is technology good for us? - BBC News

  09-12-2016 17:41 via bbc.com
  
  Tech Tent: Is technology good for us?
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  On Tech Tent this week we ask whether the tech industry is out of touch with the real world. In the rush to disrupt every industry and to reinvent the way we live, do the tech utopians forget the negative impact some of their miraculous products can ...and more »
  
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• Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia's 5 largest banks

  09-12-2016 16:58
  
  Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia.
  
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• IT Priorities 2017: Buyers look for network privacy, visibility tools

  09-12-2016 13:25 via computerweekly.com
  The 2017 Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey shows growing interest in network privacy, security and management, but SDN and NFV are still lagging
  
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• Microsoft brings F# to Jupyter Notebooks on Azure

  09-12-2016 12:00
  
  The free service for document-sharing with live code can be used for building machine learning models
  
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• 7 hiring trends for 2017

  09-12-2016 12:00
  
  Hiring is a challenge for CIOs, and it won’t get much easier in the coming year, particularly for IT departments that are trying to fill key security and networking roles.
  
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• From Symbian to finance apps – Nokia expertise harnessed by banks

  09-12-2016 10:48 via computerweekly.com
  Banks in the Nordic region are taking advantage of the Nokia legacy left in Finland
  
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• Bassendean engineer to research assitive technology as Churchill Fellow - Community Newspaper Group

  09-12-2016 08:59 via communitynews.com.au
  
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  Bassendean engineer to research assitive technology as Churchill Fellow
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  BASSENDEAN engineer and 2016 Churchill Fellow Tim McLennan – who suffered from a spinal cord injury – will travel overseas to research assistive technology. Mr McLennan will travel to the US, Canada, UK, Sweden and Switzerland to study best practice ...
  
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• US mulls rules for airlines that plan in-flight Wi-Fi voice calls

  09-12-2016 05:59
  
  The U.S. Department of Transportation is considering making it mandatory for airlines to inform passengers before purchasing tickets if they will allow voice calls using mobile wireless devices on board their aircraft, thus hoping to placate customers who could object to having co-passengers talking away on their phones in an enclosed space.
  
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• Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots - Stock & Land

  09-12-2016 04:54 via stockandland.com.au
  
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  Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots
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  US veterinarian Dr Brad White outlining the new technology for detecting BRD in feedlots at the BeefEx conference in Queensland in October. Share · Tweet · Aa. Advanced BRD detection technology to be trialed in Southern Australian feedlots. Share · Tweet.
  
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• Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots1 hour ago - Queensland Country Life

  09-12-2016 04:18 via queenslandcountrylife.com.au
  
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  Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots1 hour ago
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  US veterinarian Dr Brad White outlining the new technology for detecting BRD in feedlots at the BeefEx conference in Queensland in October. Share · Tweet · Aa. Advanced BRD detection technology to be trialed in Southern Australian feedlots. Share · Tweet.
  
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• Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots8 hours ago - Queensland Country Life

  09-12-2016 04:01 via queenslandcountrylife.com.au
  
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  Latest technology in BRD battle headed for Australian feedlots8 hours ago
  Queensland Country Life
  US veterinarian Dr Brad White outlining the new technology for detecting BRD in feedlots at the BeefEx conference in Queensland in October. Share · Tweet · Aa. Advanced BRD detection technology to be trialed in Southern Australian feedlots. Share · Tweet.and more »
  
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• Georgia says it's traced an attempted voter hack to DHS

  09-12-2016 02:30
  
  Georgia's secretary of state says the state was hit with an attempted hack of its voter registration system from an IP address linked to the federal Department of Homeland Security.
  
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• Magic Leap raised $1.4 billion using technology that likely won't be in the real product - Business Insider Australia

  09-12-2016 01:57 via businessinsider.com.au
  
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  Magic Leap raised $1.4 billion using technology that likely won't be in the real product
  Business Insider Australia
  Magic Leap, a hot startup last valued at $4.5 billion, raised $1.4 billion in funding by showcasing a prototype technology that likely won't be used in its commercial product, according to a report by The Information's Reed Albergotti. The prototype ...
  Magic Leap Lags Behind Competition: Innovative AR Technology Far From Becoming A RealityTech Times
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• DoseMe eyes machine learning to boost analytics platform

  09-12-2016 00:45
  
  Queensland-based startup DoseMe is looking at leveraging cloud-based machine learning services courtesy of Microsoft Azure to bolster its analytics platform, DoseMe Crunch.
  
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• BHP Billiton locks in technology partnership with Hatch - Australian Mining

  09-12-2016 00:24 via australianmining.com.au
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  BHP Billiton locks in technology partnership with Hatch
  Australian Mining
  BHP Billiton and technology company Hatch have entered into a collaborative development partnership, which will aim to accelerate the development and deployment of technological advances in mining and mineral processing. According to Hatch, a ...and more »
  
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• BHP Billiton locks in technology partnership with Hatch | Australian ... - Australian Mining

  09-12-2016 00:24 via australianmining.com.au
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  BHP Billiton locks in technology partnership with Hatch | Australian ...
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  BHP Billiton and technology company Hatch have entered into a collaborative development partnership, which will aim to accelerate the development and ...and more »
  
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• AMD packs more horsepower into GPUs with new Radeon ReLive software

  09-12-2016 00:01
  
  AMD has called its latest Crimson edition the GPU software update of the year and rightfully so. Called Crimson ReLive, it squeezes more horsepower out of the latest Polaris and older Fury GPUs and makes gaming and VR experiences more compelling.
  
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