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• Telstra invests in GitLab

  16-04-2018 23:30
  Telstra’s venture capital arm has taken a stake in GitLab.
  
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• WebAssembly gets its own IDE

  16-04-2018 23:05
  The WebAssembly Studio beta helps developers get up to speed on the portable code format
  
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• Is this laboratory actually home to the world's tiniest gold mine? - ABC Online

  16-04-2018 22:57 via abc.net.au
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  Is this laboratory actually home to the world's tiniest gold mine?
  ABC Online
  Sandia National Laboratories, in the US city of Albuquerque, is home to perhaps the world's tiniest gold mine. Instead of digging gold out of the ground, researchers are stripping it from SIM cards using ultrasonic waves. It may not seem like much at a ...
  
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• NBN: Queensland govt calls for more FTTC, FTTP and less FTTN

  16-04-2018 22:30
  The Queensland government has called on NBN to increase its use of fibre to the premises (FTTP) and fibre to the curb (FTTC, also known as fibre to the distribution point or FTTdp) and decrease its use of fibre to the node (FTTN).
  
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• How Technology Is Changing Communication In The Workplace - Forbes

  16-04-2018 19:08 via forbes.com
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  How Technology Is Changing Communication In The Workplace
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  What does the future hold for communication in the workplace? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Anna Pickard, Creative Director, Voice ...and more »
  
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• Telco ombudsman records 204 per cent growth in NBN-related complaints

  16-04-2018 16:01
  The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman received 22,827 complaints related to services delivered over the National Broadband Network in the second half of 2017, figures released today reveal.
  
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• Telco complaints handling broken, government says

  16-04-2018 16:01
  The government has announced it will stage a three-part review of consumer safeguards in the telecommunications sector.
  
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• More steam left in the technology train - The Australian Financial Review

  16-04-2018 15:07 via afr.com
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  More steam left in the technology train
  The Australian Financial Review
  Recent declines in the share prices of technology stocks, partly thanks to the mounting political pressure on market darling Facebook, have left some investors wondering if the party is over in a sector that has helped to drive the S&P500 index in the ...
  
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• Tech glitch hits Woolworths’ point-of-sale system

  16-04-2018 09:24
  Shoppers were this afternoon briefly unable to make purchases at Woolworths supermarkets after its point-of-sale system was rendered unusable.
  
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• Fugitive caught using facial recognition at concert of 60000 people - NEWS.com.au

  16-04-2018 07:48 via news.com.au
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  Fugitive caught using facial recognition at concert of 60000 people
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  A WANTED man thought he would never be spotted among 60,000 people at a pop concert — but police tracked him down using scary technology. Ben Graham. news.com.auApril 16, 201811:29pm. Video; Image. Play Video. Play. Mute. 0:00. /. 0:00. Loaded: 0 ...
  
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• Can blockchain technology help Australia's mango industry? - ABC Local

  16-04-2018 07:13 via abc.net.au
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  Can blockchain technology help Australia's mango industry?
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  Can technology designed for Bitcoin help Australia's mango industry? There is a trial underway in northern Australia, to see if blockchain technology can be used to track the quality of mangoes as they travel from Top End farms to southern markets ...and more »
  
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• Germany pushes for electric car technology - SBS

  16-04-2018 06:26 via sbs.com.au
  Germany pushes for electric car technology
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  German carmakers need to invest high "two-digit billion amounts" in electric car technology, in order to retain hundreds of thousands of jobs, a minister says. Updated Updated 7 hours ago. Germany's Economy Minister Peter Altmaier says the country's ...and more »
  
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• Vic courts prepare to replace aging mainframe system

  16-04-2018 04:45
  Court Services Victoria (CSV) is preparing to replace a complex collection of aging case management systems employed by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and Children’s Court of Victoria, including a mainframe-based system that is almost 30 years’ old.
  
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• Platform consolidation at the heart of IAG’s five-year tech plan

  16-04-2018 03:39
  In the past the performance of IAG’s technology function was “was not where it needed to be,” Mark Milliner, CEO of the insurer’s Australian business, said last week.
  
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• The CIO coach

  16-04-2018 02:46
  I’ve had an amazing career over 19 years as a chief information officer across Australia, Japan, USA, China and the Asia Pacific. This has included roles in the insurance, banking and pharmaceuticals sectors, and during this time I’ve met thousands of CIOs at the global, regional and country level.
  
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• Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users

  16-04-2018 01:33
  Concern about Facebook's respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world's largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not.
  
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