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• Nvidia suspends self-driving tests after Uber accident

  27-03-2018 23:12
  ​Chipmaker Nvidia has revealed it has suspended self-driving tests across the globe, a week after an Uber Technologies Inc autonomous vehicle hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona.
  
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• Apple reveals new iPad and software offering in education play

  27-03-2018 22:57
  Apple has rolled out a new iPad and classroom software aimed at grabbing more of the education market.
  
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• UBank debuts Watson-based ‘RoboBrain’ for customer service staff

  27-03-2018 22:00
  NAB subsidiary UBank has released details of ‘RoboBrain’, a new cognitive assistant based on IBM’s Watson platform.
  
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• Swinburne Uni rolls out cloud-based protection against email threats

  27-03-2018 22:00
  Swinburne University of Technology gets some 5.5 million emails a month for students and staff and, says, chief information security officer, Steven Cvetkovic, almost 70 per cent of these are spam, phishing exercises or contain malware.
  
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• Cisco emboldens disaggregation strategy

  27-03-2018 16:57
  Cisco is separating the operating system and applications from the underlying hardware, and is making it possible to host apps on certain switches and routers.
  
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• Vodafone expands NBN footprint, partners with Netflix

  27-03-2018 15:01
  Vodafone is expanding its NBN footprint to Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Tasmania, the telco announced today.
  
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• Telstra switches on 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots

  27-03-2018 13:00
  Telstra has switched on what it says is the first precinct of 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hot spots in the world.
  
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• Firefox to ape Chrome and add anti-ad filter in 2018

  27-03-2018 12:21
  Mozilla, in a new 2018 roadmap, plans to follow Google's lead by adding an ad filter to its Firefox browser this fall.
  
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• Effective IT infrastructure strategies for artificial intelligence

  27-03-2018 03:52
  Despite the hype and promise, only a small fraction of organisations have deployed and used artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The vast majority are still working to define their AI strategy – identifying uses and applicability; devising business and technology models; and piloting early initiatives.
  
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• Yahoo Japan picks Apstra intent-based networking for massive data centre fabric

  27-03-2018 01:50
  Apstra, a startup developing intent-based networking technology, has received a significant boost to its fortunes: Yahoo Japan, one of the largest ISPs in Japan, has deployed version 2.0 of Apstra’s AOS operating system for intent-based networking in its multi-vendor production data centre network.
  
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• ACCC won’t reveal NBN capacity purchased by telcos

  27-03-2018 01:24
  The Australian Competition and Consumer will release data that reveals that market share of smaller telcos that purchase access to NBN’s network. However it said today it had decided against revealing the ratio of NBN capacity (CVC) to number of end users across individual telcos.
  
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• Microsoft strengthens government cloud push with skills program

  27-03-2018 00:46
  A new Microsoft initiative aims to broaden cloud skills across the public sector ecosystem, with up to 5000 employees at government agencies, systems integrators and ISVs to receive training in the use of the company’s Azure family of cloud services by 2020.
  
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