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• Canada's Hydro Quebec unable to meet demand from digital currency miners

  19-01-2018 23:23
  MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's largest utility, Hydro Quebec, is reviewing its commercial energy strategy after being inundated with demand from global digital currency miners rushing to the province to benefit from political stability and low energy prices.
  
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• Workers need to be empowered by digital technology - Digital Journal

  19-01-2018 22:29 via digitaljournal.com
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  Workers need to be empowered by digital technology
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  According to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google the adoption of digital technology by businesses should 'empower' workers and not 'alienate' them from the task in hand. As companies go through the digital transformation process more digital technology is ...and more »
  
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• Education technology is a global opportunity - TechCrunch

  19-01-2018 21:00 via techcrunch.com
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  Education technology is a global opportunity
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  Emmanuel Nataf is the CEO and co-founder of Reedsy, a curated marketplace that connects authors and publishers with editors, designers and marketers. Emmanuel is a regular contributor to Inc, Fast Company, LitReactor, Electric Literature and Thought ...and more »
  
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• Amazon boosts monthly fee for Prime by $2, maintains yearly rate

  19-01-2018 19:06
  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Incraised the monthly fee for the U.S. version of its fast-shipping and video-streaming service Amazon Prime by $2 on Friday, making the case for subscribers to upgrade to an annual plan.
  
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• Facebook standardizes Workplace pricing, boosts cost for larger deployments

  19-01-2018 15:01
  The changes will make Workplace pricing 'fair, simple and predictable,' says Facebook, though new customers with more than 1,000 active users will pay more.
  
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• SEC says bitcoin funds raise 'investor protection issues'

  19-01-2018 14:16
  (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday raised alarm about the safety of bitcoin-themed investments, telling the fund industry they want answers to their concerns before endorsing more than a dozen proposed products based on cryptocurrencies.
  
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• Firefox speeds up WebAssembly through streaming compilation

  19-01-2018 12:00
  Firefox 58 begins compiling WebAssembly code as it downloads, and taps multiple threads for both compiling and optimization
  
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• ANZ Wealth exploring AI for insurance underwriting

  19-01-2018 05:40
  ANZ Wealth is collaborating with researchers at the University of Technology Sydney to explore how machine learning models can improve the insurance underwriting process.
  
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• Growing technology emphasis in Beef 2018's record trade display - Beef Central

  19-01-2018 04:58 via beefcentral.com
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  Growing technology emphasis in Beef 2018's record trade display
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  AN emphasis on technologies designed to deliver efficiency and greater productivity for the beef industry is in clear evidence among exhibitors lining-up to mount displays at Beef Australia 2018 in May. What promises to be the largest beef industry ...
  
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• CBA launches virtual banking assistant

  19-01-2018 04:48
  ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an in-app and online chatbot named Ceba.
  
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• MacTel goes on offensive over Bulletproof claims

  19-01-2018 02:51
  Macquarie Telecom today announced it has lodged an application with the Takeovers Panel seeking a “declaration of unacceptable circumstances and related orders” in the wake of a target’s statement (PDF) released in December by Bulletproof.
  
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• What CIOs need to understand about the mesh economy

  19-01-2018 02:29
  The mesh or sharing economy is a term coined to reflect an economic model in which individuals are able to use assets owned by someone else; an easy example is Uber and similar ride-sharing apps that many people are familiar with.
  
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• Westpac launches iMessage money transfers

  19-01-2018 00:49
  Westpac has launched a service that allows its customers to transfer money to third parties from within iMessage on Apple iPhones.
  
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• Crypto-mining is the next ransomware

  19-01-2018 00:18
  Hackers are opportunistic creatures. As device manufacturers continue to add more CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to smartphones and tablets as well as enterprise-grade cloud servers, these devices will continue to be increasingly useful targets for botnets.
  
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• How to turn chatbots into artificial intelligence

  19-01-2018 00:11
  With today’s ever-advancing modes of communications between consumers and their service providers, artificial intelligence (AI) is about convenience.It’s about delivering information in a way that it simple and effective in order to allow them to get on with their work and personal lives.
  
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