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• Cisco opens DNA Center network control and management software to the DevOps masses

  14-06-2018 17:15
  Opening up Cisco DNA Center's network controller, assurance, automation and analytics platform to developers holds the promise of customers building strategic network applications.
  
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• Jetpack promises simple R package management

  14-06-2018 12:00
  Jetpack’s goal is to make dependency management in R as easy as it is with Ruby’s Bundler and JavaScript’s Yarn package managers
  
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• Italy's 5G auction will go ahead, concerns can be addressed: AGCOM

  14-06-2018 10:53
  ROME (Reuters) - Italy will go ahead with a planned auction of frequencies for fifth-generation (5G) mobile service and issues raised by some sector players can be resolved, a commissioner at the national communications authority AGCOM said on Thursday.
  
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• Embattled ZTE seeks $10.7 billion credit line, nominates 8 board members

  14-06-2018 10:08
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corphas proposed a $10.7 billion financing plan and nominated eight board members in a drastic management overhaul, as it seeks to rebuild a business crippled by a U.S. supplier ban.
  
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• Tasmania prepares to overhaul Justice ICT systems

  14-06-2018 09:30
  The Tasmanian budget has earmarked $2.5 million from within the government’s Digital Transformation Priority Expenditure Program for preparing for a major overhaul of the Department of Justice’s key ICT systems.
  
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• Embattled ZTE proposes $10.7 billion credit proposal, new board

  14-06-2018 07:24
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corphas proposed a $10.7 billion financing plan and nominated eight board members in a drastic management overhaul, as it seeks to rebuild a business crippled by a U.S. supplier ban.
  
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• Exclusive: Microsoft takes aim at Amazon with push for checkout-free retail

  14-06-2018 07:07
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corpis working on technology that would eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent challenge to Amazon.com Inc'sautomated grocery shop, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
  
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• Musk's Boring Company wins bid to build high-speed system in Chicago

  14-06-2018 06:51
  (Reuters) - The City of Chicago has selected billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's The Boring Company to build a high-speed underground commuter system from the Loop to O'Hare International Airport, one of the world's busiest, media reported on Wednesday.
  
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• Obama tech advisor: Fun’s over for AI-driven ‘Deep Fake’ video

  14-06-2018 05:07
  ​David Edelman, former special adviser to Presidents Bush and Obama on technology and cyber security, was working in the White House during the tragic Orlando nightclub shooting two years to the week ago.
  
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• Does AI have to be a privacy nightmare?

  14-06-2018 04:56
  Although artificial intelligence (AI) presents challenges to many of the key principles that underpin privacy legislation, it’s not a forgone conclusion that AI has to usher in a data-driven Orwellian nightmare.
  
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• Apple to undercut popular law-enforcement tool for cracking iPhones

  14-06-2018 04:11
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Incsaid on Wednesday it will change its iPhone settings to undercut the most popular means for law enforcement to break into the devices.
  
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• Facebook used less for news as youngsters turn to WhatsApp: Reuters Institute

  14-06-2018 03:29
  LONDON (Reuters) - The use of social media networks such as Facebookto consume news has started to fall in the United States as many young people turn toward messaging apps such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp to discuss events, the Reuters Institute found.
  
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• Huawei rejects report of 5G ban

  14-06-2018 03:19
  Huawei Australia chairperson John Lord has said that he “doesn’t believe there’s any truth” in reports that the Chinese company has been blocked in participating in the roll out of Australia’s 5G networks.
  
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• Domino's appoints new group CIO

  14-06-2018 02:38
  ​Domino’s Pizza has appointed a new group chief information officer, Suncorp insurance business tech chief Terry Powell.
  
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• Comcast offers $65 billion to lure Fox from Disney bid

  14-06-2018 01:50
  (Reuters) - Comcast Corpoffered $65 billion on Wednesday to lure Twenty-First Century Fox Incaway from a merger with Walt Disney Co , setting up a bidding war between two of the largest U.S. media companies with its 20 percent higher offer.
  
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• Tether used to boost bitcoin prices, study finds

  14-06-2018 01:47
  There is evidence that tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, may have been used to manipulate the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a research paper released by the University of Texas.
  
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• Senate, White House gear up for battle over China's ZTE

  14-06-2018 01:27
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to block the Trump administration's agreement allowing China's ZTE Corp to resume business with American suppliers could be killed in the U.S. Congress in the coming weeks, lawmakers and aides said on Wednesday.
  
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• Openstack Foundation branches out to 'open source infrastructure'

  14-06-2018 00:54
  Changes are underway at the Openstack Foundation, with the community branching out from the open source cloud platform to the umbrella of 'open infrastructure'.
  
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