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• Raspberry Pi 3 gets Microsoft Cortana with Windows 10 Creators Update

  10-04-2017 22:49
  
  You will soon be able to use Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands.
  
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• Latest Shadow Brokers exploit dump poses little threat

  10-04-2017 22:42
  
  None of the new alleged NSA exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacking group poses an immediate threat to users.
  
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• AMD to cut wires from VR headsets with Nitero acquisition

  10-04-2017 21:45
  
  AMD acquires Nitero for an undisclosed amount.
  
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• US FCC kills plan to allow mobile phone conversations on flights

  10-04-2017 21:06
  
  On Monday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission killed a plan to allow mobile phone calls during commercial airline flights.
  
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• Foxconn said to offer $27B for Toshiba's memory chip business

  10-04-2017 20:25
  
  Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer is best known as the maker of iPhones and iPads for Apple, is said to be preparing a $27 billion bid acquire Toshiba's computer chip assets.
  
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• Windows 10 beta testing resumes after briefest break yet

  10-04-2017 20:09
  
  Microsoft has restarted deliveries of Windows 10 to beta testers, weeks sooner than it resumed previews in the past.
  
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• Microsoft acquires Deis to boost its Kubernetes chops

  10-04-2017 19:37
  
  Microsoft is acquiring Deis, a company that makes tools to work with the Kubernetes open-source container orchestration system. The deal, announced Monday, marks Microsoft’s continued interest in container orchestration.
  
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• Suspected CIA spying tools linked to hacks in 16 countries

  10-04-2017 19:36
  
  The suspected CIA spying tools that WikiLeaks has dumped have been linked to hacking attempts on at least 40 targets in 16 countries, according to security firm Symantec.
  
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• Utah is the first Power Five school with its own varsity video games team

  10-04-2017 19:09
  
  The University of Utah announced last week that it had become the first school in a Power Five athletic conference to field its own varsity esports team, which is a real thing that actually happened.
  
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• Hack of Dallas emergency sirens prompts more warnings to bolster cybersecurity

  10-04-2017 18:39
  
  Dallas emergency management officials continue to investigate a hack that activated all 156 emergency tornado sirens citywide for about 90 minutes early Saturday.
  
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• Email-based attacks exploit unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word

  10-04-2017 16:26
  
  Attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word for the past few months to compromise computers and infect them with malware.
  
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• Spain arrests supposed Russian computer scientist at US request

  10-04-2017 16:24
  
  The arrest of Piotr Levashov at the Barcelona airport on Friday was not tied to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, one source close to the investigation said.
  
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• ZTE's first Android smartwatch is here

  10-04-2017 15:00
  
  The Quartz runs on Android Wear 2.0 and has built-in 3G and Google Assistant, but requires you to take your wallet: Android Pay is not supported.
  
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• EBay folds Indian operation into local retailer Flipkart

  10-04-2017 13:42
  
  Facing fierce competition from Amazon.com, eBay has sold its Indian operation to local retailer Flipkart, while joining Tencent Holdings and Microsoft in investing US$1.4 billion in the Indian company.
  
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• AI player AlphaGo to play Chinese Go champion

  10-04-2017 12:25
  
  DeepMind’s AlphaGo program will test its artificial intelligence capabilities in May against top Go player Ke Jie.
  
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• New functional language champions type-driven development

  10-04-2017 12:00
  
  For now, Idris is primarily a research tool as the compiler and runtime await improvement
  
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• Better technology means better patient experience - The Australian Financial Review

  10-04-2017 12:00 via afr.com
  
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  Better technology means better patient experience
  The Australian Financial Review
  Commonwealth Bank managing director of commerce and platforms Bronwyn Yam says technology in the US is linking the public and private systems with workers compensation. Supplied. by James Sherbon. This content is produced by The Australian ...
  
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• Android Gboard smartens up with federated machine learning

  10-04-2017 12:00
  
  Google's Federated Learning lets smartphones collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping training data on the device
  
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• South Australia coughs up $394M for DXC Technology outsourcing deal - ARNnet

  10-04-2017 09:43 via arnnet.com.au
  
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  South Australia coughs up $394M for DXC Technology outsourcing deal
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  $394.2 million. That's how much the massive multi-year end user computing contract CSC (now DXC Technology) struck with the South Australian (SA) Government earlier this year is worth. The landmark deal was awarded to CSC in February, prior to the ...and more »
  
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• Angry Shadow Brokers release password for suspected NSA hacking tools

  10-04-2017 08:19
  
  Annoyed with the U.S. missile strike last week on an airfield in Syria, among other things, hacker group Shadow Brokers resurfaced on Saturday and released what they said was the password to files containing suspected National Security Agency tools they had earlier tried to sell.
  
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• Technology is a marvel – now let's make it moral - The Guardian

  10-04-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
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  Technology is a marvel – now let's make it moral
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  Countless decisions must soon be made about how Britain navigates the world, having cut itself adrift from the European Union. And alongside the obvious things like trade deals and immigration rules, we ought too to make choices about who and how we ...
  
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• Westpac backs 200 Australian 'Businesses of Tomorrow'

  10-04-2017 06:27
  
  ​Westpac has named 200 SMEs as the ‘Businesses of Tomorrow’ and has selected 20 to receive additional mentoring and a $100,000 professional services package.
  
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• Ombudsman: Centrelink OCI lacking usability and transparency

  10-04-2017 02:50
  
  ​The Department of Human Services’ controversial ‘robo-debt’ system lacks usability and transparency, according to a Commonwealth ombudsman’s report released today.
  
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• ‘Explainable Artificial Intelligence’: Cracking open the black box of AI

  10-04-2017 02:15
  
  At a demonstration of Amazon Web Services new artificial intelligence image recognition tool last week, the deep learning analysis calculated with near certainty that a photo of speaker Glenn Gore depicted a potted plant.
  
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• Nokia and University of Technology Sydney collaborate to drive digital transformation in Australia - Nasdaq

  10-04-2017 01:01 via nasdaq.com
  
  Nokia and University of Technology Sydney collaborate to drive digital transformation in Australia
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  Sydney, Australia - Nokia and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which Nokia will join the university's UTS: Rapido, a new technology development unit, and collaborate on developing ...and more »
  
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• Technology: made by men and tested on men - Financial Times

  10-04-2017 00:44 via ft.com
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  Technology: made by men and tested on men
  Financial Times
  Sir, The value of including more women in the tech workforce goes beyond fixing the numbers (“Silicon Valley starts off on wrong foot for gender parity”, April 7). Research shows that gender balance in a team can improve communication, modulate risk ...
  
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• SA Health CIO defends EPAS following coroner's criticism

  10-04-2017 00:41
  
  ​The CIO of SA Health has spoken out in defence of the state’s Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) after it was criticised in an inquest into the death of former Socceroo Stephen Herczeg.
  
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