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• GM settles lawsuit with motorcyclist hit by self-driving car

  01-06-2018 23:51
  (Reuters) - General Motors Co agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist involved in a minor crash with one of its self-driving cars in San Francisco late last year, the U.S. automaker said on Friday.
  
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• Google plans not to renew military deal protested by employees: source

  01-06-2018 23:15
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google told employees on Friday that it would not renew a contract expiring next March to help the U.S. military analyze aerial drone imagery, a person familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks to defuse internal uproar over the deal.
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. may soon claim up to $1.7 billion penalty from China's ZTE - sources

  01-06-2018 22:07
  (Reuters) - The Trump administration may soon claim as much as $1.7 billion penalty from ZTE Corp , as it looks to punish and tighten control over the Chinese telecommunications company before allowing it back into business, according to people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Facebook to pull plug on 'Trending' topics feature

  01-06-2018 21:21
  (Reuters) - Facebook Incsaid on Friday it will remove the 'Trending' topics feature that compiles popular news from its social network, as it seeks to ensure users see news from trustworthy and quality sources.
  
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• Apple to debut phone-to-phone augmented reality: sources

  01-06-2018 21:18
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Incnext week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent to its servers, two people familiar with the matter said this week.
  
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• Singapore start-up secures $12.3 billion in assets for blockchain platform

  01-06-2018 19:28
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - FUSION, a Singapore-based crypto-finance start-up, has secured $12.3 billion in financial assets from three strategic partners that have committed to lock in those funds with the organization's public blockchain platform, FUSION founder DJ Qian told Reuters.
  
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• Top U.S. antitrust official uncertain of need for four wireless carriers

  01-06-2018 19:01
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division, Makan Delrahim, declined on Friday to support the Obama administration's firm backing of the need for four U.S. wireless carriers.
  
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• Cisco taps AMD to power a hyper-dense server for data centers, edge computing

  01-06-2018 17:48
  Cisco announces the C-Series C4200server, a 2RU box comprised of the C4200 chassis and C125 server nodes that boosts processor-core density 128% using AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs.
  
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• Commonwealth Bank details email domain snafu

  01-06-2018 06:32
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has released details of an investigation into hundreds of emails containing customer information being erroneously sent to external addresses.
  
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• University of New England upgrades IT leadership role

  01-06-2018 06:02
  The University of New England is on the hunt for someone to lead its Information Technology Services (ITS) Directorate.
  
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• Etsy, eBay and Alibaba eschew Amazon-style geoblock

  01-06-2018 03:50
  Etsy, eBay and Alibaba remain critical of the government’s model for GST collection on low-value imported goods but have indicated that at this stage they don’t intend to follow in Amazon’s footsteps and implement a geoblocking system.
  
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• Vocus confirms hacked PABX flooded 000

  01-06-2018 03:26
  Vocus has confirmed that a PABX systems of one of its customers was compromised and used in an attempt at international toll fraud that flooded the Triple Zero emergency service.
  
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• ABC technology team to shed jobs

  01-06-2018 02:22
  The ABC has revealed plans to cut up to 37 positions from its technology team.
  
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• Optus chases Telstra for damages over ‘unlimited’ ads

  01-06-2018 01:56
  Optus is seeking access to a range of Telstra’s business records as it attempts to quantify the potential loss caused to it by an advertising campaign staged by the rival telco that a court has ruled is misleading.
  
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• Headphone maker Monster plans massive ICO

  01-06-2018 01:04
  ​Headphone maker Monster Products Inc said it is planning to raise up to US$300 million in an initial coin offering, a fund-raising strategy in which a company creates a token, or digital currency, and sells it to the public.
  
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