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• U.S. court revives challenge to Seattle's Uber, Lyft union law

  11-05-2018 20:56
  (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a leading business group's challenge to a Seattle law, the first of its kind, that would allow drivers for ride-hailing services such as Uber Technologies Incand Lyft to unionize.
  
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• Britain's HSBC joins the fintech fray with multi-account app

  11-05-2018 17:52
  LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC'sConnected Money app, providing a single platform for users to see their accounts with a range of providers, registered 13,000 downloads within a day of its launch, the British lender's digital banking head said on Friday.
  
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• Bank of Canada, TMX say blockchain feasible for securities settlement

  11-05-2018 13:21
  TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's central bank, Toronto Stock Exchange operator TMX Group , and non-profit organization Payments Canada said on Friday that tests had shown blockchain technology can be used for automating instantaneous securities settlements.
  
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• LaunchVic turns funding focus to healthtech

  11-05-2018 04:43
  ​LaunchVic, the Victorian Government’s startup development agency, has announced its eighth round of funding grants will be focused on healthtech.
  
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• Nvidia expects 65% drop in cryptocurrency-related revenue next quarter

  11-05-2018 03:36
  Too many cryptocurrency clients and fewer cloud computing orders than expected underwhelmed Nvidiainvestors on Thursday, although the graphics chip maker said a supply shortage that hit its core video game audience had eased.
  
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• Australia Post piloting bot assistants for delivery centre workers and back office staff

  11-05-2018 02:58
  ​Australia Post is piloting a series of bots to help office staff scrutinise delivery data, and delivery centre workers get sorting machines up and running more quickly.
  
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• WA govt brings forward police cyber security spending

  11-05-2018 02:47
  The Western Australian government has brought forward spending on WA Police’s ICT optimisation program, in part in order to boost the force’s information security.
  
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• Google, NASA, UTS propose ‘hello world’ test for quantum computers

  11-05-2018 00:40
  ​What is the smallest computational task a quantum computer might be able to complete, that the most powerful supercomputers available today would find prohibitively hard?
  
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• Making Slack, the massively multiplayer online business tool

  11-05-2018 00:30
  ​When a couple of small teams at software powerhouse Adobe first started using Slack, Cal Henderson and his team were pleased, but hardly surprised.
  
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