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• Dr Google knows best: how technology is disrupting our relationships with GPs - The Guardian

  27-10-2017 23:52 via theguardian.com
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  Dr Google knows best: how technology is disrupting our relationships with GPs
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  Optometry attracts some of the brightest Australian students, but is this the best use of their minds if they spend their time testing and choosing frames? Photograph: Media for Medical/UIG via Getty Images. Technology ...
  
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• ZGC large-heap Java garbage collector may go open source

  27-10-2017 23:13
  Votes are due by November 8 to approve the project request, which could compete with Red Hat’s Shenandoah
  
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• Facebook, Twitter, Google executives to testify at U.S. Senate Russia hearing

  27-10-2017 22:31
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from Facebook Inc , Twitter Incand Alphabet Inc'sGoogle will testify on Tuesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
  
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• Uber CEO heads to Brazil amid new legislative threat

  27-10-2017 20:01
  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc, Dara Khosrowshahi, will visit its operations in Brazil next week, the company told Reuters on Friday, as the country's Congress nears a vote on legislation threatening its business model.
  
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• The Corporate Partnership Bringing Education And Technology To Rural Ghana - Forbes

  27-10-2017 18:31 via forbes.com
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  The Corporate Partnership Bringing Education And Technology To Rural Ghana
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  One of TechAide's Female Employees. TechAide's female programmers and installers also act as de facto role models to the rural young women students that the company serves. Many girls in rural Africa lack access to education due to factors like gender ...
  
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• What Role Did Technology Play In The 2016 Election? - Forbes

  27-10-2017 17:28 via forbes.com
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  What Role Did Technology Play In The 2016 Election?
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  First, I think it's an important thing to recognize that technology is only part of the holistic story of how campaigns are won and lost. It should be looked at as a tool that provides leverage, distribution scale, and automation to people and ...and more »
  
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• Wall Street loves electric cars, America loves trucks

  27-10-2017 16:37
  DETROIT (Reuters) - Wall Street may love the shares of Silicon Valley electric carmaker Tesla Inc , but Americans love big, fuel-thirsty trucks like Ford Motor Co'sbestselling F-Series pickups and are paying ever higher prices to buy them.
  
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• Industrial technology students recognised for HSC achievements - Lithgow Mercury

  27-10-2017 12:02 via lithgowmercury.com.au
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  Industrial technology students recognised for HSC achievements
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  PRIZES FOR INDUSTRY: Bradley Kay, Isaac Fardell, Peter Tracey, Connor Shiel, Jenny Holgate, Dalton Neville and Mark Picman pictured at the Year 12 graduation for La Salle Academy. Picture: SUPPLIED. Prizes were awarded for students completing ...
  
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• What’s new in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2017

  27-10-2017 12:00
  Latest preview emphasizes C++ capabilities
  
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• Britain believes North Korea was behind 'WannaCry' NHS cyber attack

  27-10-2017 11:33
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it believed North Korea was behind the "WannaCry" cyber attack in May that disrupted businesses and government services worldwide, including the National Health Service (NHS) in England.
  
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• Why parents shouldn't use technology as a bargaining chip with their children - ABC Online

  27-10-2017 07:21 via abc.net.au
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  Why parents shouldn't use technology as a bargaining chip with their children
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  Do you take away your teenager's phone to manage their behaviour? Maybe when they arrive home late from a party or receive a bad report card? Confiscating, time-limiting or permitting additional access to technology has become a popular parenting ...and more »
  
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• Why parents shouldn't use technology as a bargaining chip with ... - ABC Online

  27-10-2017 07:21 via abc.net.au
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  Why parents shouldn't use technology as a bargaining chip with ...
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  We need to shift the focus away from parenting that relies on threats and rewards, to one that nurtures meaningful parent-child and child-technology ...and more »
  
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• This Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound ... - MIT Technology Review

  27-10-2017 06:06 via technologyreview.com
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  This Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound ...
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  Can a smartphone-enabled ultrasound machine become medicine's next stethoscope?and more »
  
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• Apple, GE release app-making tools for industrial internet

  27-10-2017 05:55
  Apple Inc and General Electric Co have released app-making tools tailored to GE's Predix platform for connecting power plants, jet engines and other industrial equipment to the internet.
  
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• Don't use technology as a bargaining chip with your kids - The Conversation AU

  27-10-2017 02:58 via theconversation.com
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  Don't use technology as a bargaining chip with your kids
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  We need to shift the focus away from parenting that relies on threats and rewards, to one that nurtures meaningful parent-child and child-technology ...and more »
  
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• BMS Technology reveals almost $1M of debt after administration - ARNnet

  27-10-2017 02:35 via arnnet.com.au
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  BMS Technology reveals almost $1M of debt after administration
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  Approximately $995,000 worth of debts was uncovered after the first creditors meeting of Adelaide-based distributor, BMS Technology. BMS Technology entered into voluntary administration on 10 October, with Peter Ivan Macks and Ian Wayne Burford from ...
  
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• One-third of IT leaders yet to implement DevOps

  27-10-2017 02:31
  Australian companies are operating in a highly competitive environment where they need to build, test, and roll out new or updated solutions to customers faster than ever before. With IT being a very large functional area with many specialisations, the key to successfully leverage technology across the business depends highly on the level of effective collaboration that exists within the IT department.
  
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• Artificial intelligence is a partner — if we do it right

  27-10-2017 02:26
  Humans are always creating machines to do our work. Machines replace work we find tedious or backbreaking. They allow us to do things faster, to make a thousand parts an hour, or travel a hundred miles an hour.
  
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• Blockchain and its implications for the technology channel ... - Computerworld Australia

  27-10-2017 02:13 via computerworld.com.au
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  Blockchain and its implications for the technology channel ...
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  What impact will blockchain-based systems have on the tech sector?and more »
  
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• Blockchain and its implications for the technology channel

  27-10-2017 02:13
  A lot is being said about blockchain lately. Not a day goes by without an article about either someone who sold everything to purchase Bitcoin, or the fact the only people really making money out of this technology are conference providers to pundits predicting a revolution in finance, based on this quite simple technology.
  
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• Align cloud infrastructure to your business strategy — or fail

  27-10-2017 02:09
  Anything other than a cloud-only strategy for new IT initiatives will require justification at more than 30 percent of large enterprises by 2020, according to Gartner.
  
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• NBN to deliver broadband services to Defence bases

  27-10-2017 01:18
  Personnel at some 400 Air Force, Navy and Army sites will receive broadband access under a deal between the Australian Defence Force and NBN.
  
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• McAfee says it no longer will permit government source code reviews

  27-10-2017 00:43
  US firm will no longer permit foreign governments to scrutinize the source code of its products
  
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• NotPetya hackers likely behind BadRabbit attack: researchers

  27-10-2017 00:40
  Technical indicators suggest a cyber attack which hit Russia and other countries this week was carried out by hackers behind a similar but bigger assault on Ukraine in June, security researchers who analyzed the two campaigns said on Wednesday.
  
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• SAP faces probe over kickback allegations

  27-10-2017 00:28
  SAP, Europe's biggest software company, is making sweeping changes to its sales practices around the world after saying it faces a U.S. corruption probe over sales commissions paid to win South African government contracts.
  
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• Canberra and Melbourne to host DXC Technology's new Digital Transformation Centres - ARNnet

  27-10-2017 00:11 via arnnet.com.au
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  Canberra and Melbourne to host DXC Technology's new Digital Transformation Centres
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  DXC Technology has revealed plans to open at least two new Digital Transformation Centres in Australia next year, allowing local customers the ability to apply the latest digital design and innovation in their digital transformation journeys. The new ...
  DXC Technology to open digital transformation centres in Canberra and MelbourneCRN Australiaall 4 news articles »
  
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