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• National Instruments industrial IoT lab unites rivals

  11-01-2017 23:35
  
  The NI Industrial IoT Lab opened on Wednesday and will house testbeds for applications like predictive maintenance, industrial networking, “microgrids” for renewable energy, and heavy-equipment asset management.
  
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• Australian Medical Association appoints new group CIO

  11-01-2017 22:06
  
  The Australian Medical Association has appointed a new group chief information officer to replace Colin O'Sullivan, who left the AMA last year to return to Ireland for family reasons.
  
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• New MacBook Pros stop Apple's skid in worldwide PC shipments

  11-01-2017 22:03
  
  Apple's new MacBook Pros have put the brakes on a free-fall of Mac shipments globally, though they haven't provided the boost the company was looking for.
  
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• RStudio's new enterprise platform moves out of beta

  11-01-2017 21:27
  
  On the eve of its annual user conference, RStudio announced that its RStudio Connect publishing platform is out of beta and available for a free 45-day evaluation.
  
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• Facebook really, really wants to work with journalists

  11-01-2017 21:17
  
  On Wednesday, Facebook announced a new suite of initiatives aimed at improving its collaboration with journalists and media companies.
  
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• DHS should have a cybersecurity unit, says panel chairman

  11-01-2017 20:44
  
  The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security said his top priority in 2017 will be to push for creation of a cybersecurity agency within the Department of Homeland Security.
  
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• Professionally designed ransomware Spora might be the next big thing

  11-01-2017 19:14
  
  Security researchers have found a new very well designed ransomware program dubbed Spora that can perform strong offline file encryption and brings several innovations to the ransom payments model.
  
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• Samsung boss to testify in South Korea bribery case

  11-01-2017 18:46
  
  Jay Y. Lee, the current head of the Samsung Group, will be questioned by a special prosecutor Thursday as part of an investigation into a wide-ranging corruption scandal in South Korea that has reached all the way to the country’s president.
  
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• EU wants to regulate WhatsApp and Skype like carriers

  11-01-2017 18:37
  
  The European Commission wants to extend electronic communications privacy legislation to include Internet-based communications services such as Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Duo, Apple iMessage, and Viber.
  
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• Trump: It was probably Russia that hacked the DNC, Clinton campaign

  11-01-2017 18:36
  
  Russia was likely behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump finally has acknowledged.
  
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• Greenpeace’s naughty and nice list of the most – and least – green tech vendors

  11-01-2017 17:10
  
  Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace is out with its latest report card judging internet companies on use of renewable energy and while Apple, Google and Facebook continue to score the highest marks, the market’s leading IaaS public cloud vendor Amazon Web Services is called out with failing grades.
  
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• Wearable technology opportunity for brokers - Insurance and Risk Professional

  11-01-2017 17:09 via insuranceandrisk.com.au
  
  Insurance and Risk Professional
  Wearable technology opportunity for brokers
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  Laura Bradley, National Business Development Manager at Gallagher Bassett believes that wearable technology will have far-reaching effects for the insurance industry. 'For the insurance industry, wearable technology will have two main effects: firstly ...
  
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• BBC’s iPlayer will be overhauled by 2020

  11-01-2017 17:00 via computerweekly.com
  Broadcaster BBC aims to redesign its digital iPlayer service by 2020 to better reflect the needs of the content rental and streaming environment
  
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• As authentication options blossom, startup tries to simplify deployment, maintain flexibility

  11-01-2017 15:30
  
  A startup with a strong pedigree is trying to address the problem that businesses have keeping up with the ever-increasing options for authentication.
  
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• Raspberry Pi roundup: Read all about it, in today’s Daily Prophet online

  11-01-2017 15:19
  
  The Raspberry Pi roundup is back from its winter holiday, and boy, has it ever been nerding out. There’s nothing like being back at the old homestead to make you read well-loved old classics like the Harry Potter books.
  
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• No honor among thieves: Crooks seeking ransom for MongoDB data someone else stole

  11-01-2017 15:07
  
  It took less than a week for criminals to drain virtually all publicly exposed MongoDB servers of their data, and now a second tier of opportunistic thieves is trying to walk off with the ransom.
  
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• IBM Watson, FDA to explore blockchain for secure patient data exchange

  11-01-2017 14:01
  
  IBM's Watson Health division and the FDA are teaming up to explore using blockchain technology for secure, efficient and scalable exchange of health data, which could lead to enormous advances in research.
  
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• ASX revenue at risk from need for likely technology upgrades - The Australian Financial Review

  11-01-2017 13:03 via afr.com
  
  The Australian Financial Review
  ASX revenue at risk from need for likely technology upgrades
  The Australian Financial Review
  ASX CEO Dominic Stevens said he was "determined that ASX emerges from this incident stronger". Daniel Munoz. by Alice Uribe. The ASX's reliance on old technology systems, highlighted by last year's technical outage that disrupted transactions and ...
  
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• Microsoft makes minor concessions on Windows 10 data collection

  11-01-2017 12:01
  
  Microsoft on Tuesday promised that it will dial back diagnostic data collection from Windows 10 devices when users select the "Basic" setting for the controversial harvesting.
  
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• Lambdascript adds functional programming to Python

  11-01-2017 12:00
  
  The language project, still in the alpha stage, works with Python expressions and emphasizes literate programming
  
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• Deloitte predicts major advances in mobile technology in 2017

  11-01-2017 11:06 via computerweekly.com
  Deloitte’s 16th TMT Predictions report highlights advances in mobile networking and device technology
  
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• Trump allegedly backed compromise of DNC emails, say leaked docs

  11-01-2017 08:55
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and senior members of his campaign team allegedly knew and supported the leak of emails of the Democratic National Committee, according to unsubstantiated documents leaked by a news outlet on Tuesday.
  
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• Southern Cross deploys SDN to serve Pacific Islands

  11-01-2017 01:42
  
  Southern Cross Cable Network has introduced new service offerings based on software-defined networking (SDN supported by a platform from incumbent supplier Ciena that it says will make life easier for smaller operators and the Pacific Islands.
  
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• US Intel report: Russia allegedly obtained 'compromising' info on Trump

  11-01-2017 01:36
  
  A classified intelligence report on the Kremlin’s suspected efforts to meddle with the U.S. election reportedly includes a bombshell allegation: that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information about President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Council pushes ahead with 10Gbps network plan for Adelaide

  11-01-2017 01:25
  
  Adelaide’s Ten Gigabit City plan is a step closer, with the council seeking formal expressions of interest (EOI) for the project.
  
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• Ehealth: AMA call for bush broadband boost

  11-01-2017 00:27
  
  The Australian Medical Association has called on the government to tackle barriers to the use of ehealth and telemedicine in rural and regional Australia.
  
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• US Department of Defence testing a swarm of autonomous, 3D printed drones

  11-01-2017 00:05
  
  The US Department of Defense is testing Perdix, autonomous micro-drones capable of collective decision-making and adaptive formation flying.
  
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• The DOD is testing a swarm of autonomous, 3-D printed drones

  11-01-2017 00:05
  
  The Department of Defense is testing Perdix, autonomous micro-drones capable of collective decision-making and adaptive formation flying.
  
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