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• Westpac CEO sees key role for startup partnerships

  05-04-2017 23:30
  
  Westpac group CEO Brian Hartzer likes to describe his company as the “original 200-year-old startup” — with the capacity to innovate embedded “deep in the DNA of the Westpac group”.
  
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• Government launches geospatial data portal

  05-04-2017 23:30
  
  The government has launched an online portal that offers access to federal and state spatial datasets.
  
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• ADSL connections begin to decline in Australia

  05-04-2017 23:30
  
  Australians managed to download 2.6 exabytes — 2.6 million terabytes — in the last three months of 2016, new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal.
  
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• SOS: Astronauts can make a quick getaway via a zip line

  05-04-2017 23:24
  
  Engineers at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida have installed a zip line to zoom astronauts to safety in case of an emergency during launch.
  
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• H-1B employers face stricter rules

  05-04-2017 22:38
  
  This week the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Labor each posted information about how to file a complaint against suspected H-1B abuse.
  
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• More high-end GPUs are now compatible with Dell's 8K monitor

  05-04-2017 22:37
  
  Getting 8K displays to work with the most fully loaded Windows 10 PCs can be difficult, as Dell is finding out.
  
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• Microsoft tries to appease Windows 10 data collection critics

  05-04-2017 22:10
  
  Microsoft today revealed more about what info Windows 10 collects from users, hoping to quell long-simmering resistance to the OS's data gathering practices.
  
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• Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

  05-04-2017 18:34
  
  A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory.
  
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• Google says its AI chips smoke CPUs, GPUs in performance tests

  05-04-2017 18:27
  
  Google released a paper Wednesday detailing the benefits of using its dedicated Tensor Processing Units for machine learning inference, and the results are staggering.
  
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• Cisco/AppDynamics upgrade broadens DevOps role in app management game

  05-04-2017 17:41
  
  Cisco’s AppDynamics this week rolled out a developer toolkit that will let corporate development teams quickly build and measure the business impact of Web and mobile applications.
  
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• Tablet loan service helps Emirates get round US device ban

  05-04-2017 17:00 via computerweekly.com
  Emirates is attempting to mitigate the impact of the laptop and tablet ban on flights travelling to the US by offering tablet loans to business and first class passengers
  
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• UTS is Australia's top ranked young university and 15th in the world. - The Australian Financial Review

  05-04-2017 16:00
  
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  UTS is Australia's top ranked young university and 15th in the world.
  The Australian Financial Review
  The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has broken into the top 20 of a global ranking of universities under 50 years old, the first Australia university to do so. Times Higher Education ranked UTS 15th in its list of the world's top 200 young ...and more »
  
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• Technology investments core to JP Morgan Chase success

  05-04-2017 16:00 via computerweekly.com
  US investment bank is reaping the benefits of its $9.5bn annual technology spend
  
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• Ofcom plans to legalise narrowband mobile repeaters for UK consumers

  05-04-2017 14:05 via computerweekly.com
  
  Regulator launches consultation to give consumers legal access to their own narrowband repeaters to enhance mobile network access in their homes and vehicles
  
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• YouTube launches low-bandwidth version for India

  05-04-2017 13:55
  
  Google rolled out Wednesday a version of its YouTube video sharing app that is targeted at users who do not have robust internet connections.
  
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• Ugly Jenkins gets a friendly new UI

  05-04-2017 12:00
  
  The free open source Blue Ocean plugin helps agile teams track build, test, and development progress via a visual pipeline editor
  
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• Ex-banker nabs role as government technology czar - The Australian Financial Review

  05-04-2017 10:11
  
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  Ex-banker nabs role as government technology czar
  The Australian Financial Review
  Former NAB head of retail banking Gavin Slater says the government has to keep pace with public expectations. Pat Scala. Fleur Anderson. Share on Facebook · Share on twitter. by Fleur Anderson. A former banking executive has been appointed to oversee ...and more »
  
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• Facebook appeal over New York search warrants fails

  05-04-2017 09:23
  
  Facebook’s appeal against 381 warrants for information from the accounts of its users was rejected by a New York court on the ground that earlier orders refusing to quash the warrants issued in a criminal proceeding could not be appealed.
  
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• Queensland, ACT governments assail NBN

  05-04-2017 08:43
  
  The governments of Queensland and the ACT have joined that of the Northern Territory in criticising the National Broadband Network rollout.
  
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• Grant enables roll-out of library technology - Daily Liberal

  05-04-2017 08:38
  
  Daily Liberal
  Grant enables roll-out of library technology
  Daily Liberal
  TECHNOLOGY GRANT: Radio Frequency Identification technology at Dubbo branch library of Macquarie Regional Library will be rolled out to other branches through a grant announced on Wednesday. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE. See your ad here ...and more »
  
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• Labor calls for independent review of govt digital transformation efforts

  05-04-2017 05:23
  
  Ed Husic, the shadow minister for the digital economy, has called for a thoroughgoing, independent review of the government’s IT spend and digital transformation programs.
  
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• With new technology, mathematicians turn numbers into art - The Conversation US

  05-04-2017 04:03
  
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  With new technology, mathematicians turn numbers into art
  The Conversation US
  Frank A. Farris received funding from ICERM to cover travel to the "Illustrating Mathematics" workshop. Partners. View all partners. Republish this article. Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons license ...and more »
  
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• Former NAB exec to take charge of govt’s Digital Transformation Agency

  05-04-2017 03:54
  
  The federal government has recruited Gavin Slater to take on the role CEO of the Digital Transformation Agency.
  
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• Amazon to refund parents over kids' in-app purchases, says FTC

  05-04-2017 02:07
  
  Parents with children that ran up bills, sometimes huge, through in-app purchases stand to get some or all of that money back. Amazon could have to hand out more than $70 million in refunds to affected consumers, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
  
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• TPG picks up additional Singapore spectrum

  05-04-2017 01:13
  
  TPG has increased its spectrum holdings in Singapore, the telco announced today.
  
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