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• Budget 2018: $130 million tech boost for Dutton’s Home Affairs

  08-05-2018 16:11
  The government will make $130 million available, including $94 million in capital funding, to improve the ICT capability of the newly created Department of Home Affairs.
  
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• Budget 2018: Funding to enhance security of Bureau of Meteorology, parliament IT systems

  08-05-2018 15:30
  The government will continue funding a push to boost the security and resilience of the Bureau of Meteorology’s IT systems and observations network infrastructure ​, but will not reveal how much it plans to spend on the initiative.
  
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• Budget 2018: Government funds Centrelink, Medicare payment system overhauls

  08-05-2018 15:01
  The government plans to spend $316.2 million over four years as it enters the third stage of its massive overhaul of Australia’s welfare payment system.
  
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• Budget 2018: Space push, location tech boost

  08-05-2018 14:35
  The 2018-19 budget reveals details of the government’s funding for its efforts to promote a domestic space industry as well as new initiatives intended to boost Australian businesses access to location technology, including better GPS performance.
  
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• Budget 2018: Government funds push to unlock data

  08-05-2018 13:30
  The government will put more than $65 million towards funding new rules that will give consumers greater control over their personal data and make more public-sector data sets available for businesses, agencies and researchers.
  
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• Budget 2018: Government to accelerate GovPass rollout

  08-05-2018 12:48
  The government has revealed that it will provide the Digital Transformation Agency with $92.4 million in 2018-19 to “accelerate the implementation of the GovPass Program”.
  
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• Budget 2018: Government seeks to boost Australian AI capabilities

  08-05-2018 12:18
  The federal government’s 2018-19 budget earmarks $29.9 million over four years to strengthen Australia’s capability in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
  
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• Federal budget 2018: $1.3b plan to make Australia a medical technology leader - The Australian Financial Review

  08-05-2018 11:54
  The Australian Financial Review
  Federal budget 2018: $1.3b plan to make Australia a medical technology leader
  The Australian Financial Review
  The Coalition has taken up calls for genetic and precision medicine innovations, announcing a new $1.3 billion health and medical research growth plan including $500 million to prioritise emerging study of genes and their functions. A 2030 innovation ...
  
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• Telstra pushes 5G’s latency advantage

  08-05-2018 07:28
  Telstra, in conjunction with Ericsson and Intel, has used a demonstration of online gaming to push the low latency characteristics of 5G wireless as one of the key benefits of the technology.
  
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• Rockstar takes Australian to court over GTA Online modding

  08-05-2018 03:49
  Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive Software has taken an Australian modder to court seeking a permanent injunction that would bar him from making unauthorised changes to its games.
  
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• IoT: Google unveils 'Android Things'

  08-05-2018 03:03
  Google has launched a spinoff of its Android operating system for home appliances and other machines, following mixed results with Android offshoots for cars, smartwatches and televisions.
  
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• NZ government continues search for chief technology officer

  08-05-2018 01:56
  The Government has re-advertised for a chief technology officer after failing to find a suitable candidate from the first round of applicants late last year.
  
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• Commonwealth Bank confirms problem with Visa transactions

  08-05-2018 01:39
  A spokesperson for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has confirmed that a problem is affecting some transactions using Visa cards.
  
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• 'Responsibility' to upstage new technology at Google I/O - The Sydney Morning Herald

  08-05-2018 01:02
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  'Responsibility' to upstage new technology at Google I/O
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  Google plans to wade into the debate over whether technology — and the time spent on devices — is harmful to people's health, criticism that it has dodged more than Apple and Facebook. At its annual developer conference — scheduled to kick off in ...
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• Uber mum on software flaw’s role in fatal self-driving accident

  08-05-2018 01:01
  ​Uber has revealed it has retained a former top U.S. transportation official to advise it on safety after a fatal self-driving crash in March, but it declined to comment on a report that a software flaw was responsible for the accident.
  
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• Windows 10 update (and retirement) calendar: Mark these dates

  08-05-2018 00:46
  Microsoft is releasing new versions of Windows 10 on a set schedule – and just as regularly retiring older versions from support. Here are all the dates you need to know about through Windows 7's retirement in 2020.
  
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• Microsoft drops support extension for Windows 10 Enterprise

  08-05-2018 00:45
  What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away.
  
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