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• Amazon to open Manchester office as it adds 1,000 British jobs

  18-10-2018 23:32
  Amazon.comis opening its first office in Manchester, northern England, and expanding two other centers to house 1,000 new R&D roles in what it said was a major new investment in British innovation.
  
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• Australia: Is blockchain technology set to disrupt the Australian property market? - Mondaq News Alerts

  18-10-2018 23:25
  Australia: Is blockchain technology set to disrupt the Australian property market?
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  Assisted by Maja Podinic. Trying to save a deposit and secure a mortgage for the right property can be a truly daunting experience, especially if you forget to factor in the hidden costs, and the amount of time set to be spent finalising everything ...
  
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• Internet provider groups sue Vermont over net neutrality law

  18-10-2018 23:04
  Five industry groups representing major internet providers and cable companies filed suit on Thursday seeking to block a Vermont law barring companies that do not abide by net neutrality rules from receiving state contracts.
  
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• Comcast says its fastest internet reaches more U.S. homes than any other provider

  18-10-2018 21:03
  Comcast Corp said on Thursday that its fastest-speed gigabit internet service now reaches more homes than any other provider in the United States after it completed rollout to nearly all 58 million homes and businesses it serves.
  
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• U.S. making serious efforts to comply with EU data rules: EU officials

  18-10-2018 20:39
  The United States is making serious efforts to comply with a landmark data transfer pact agreed two years ago, EU officials said on Thursday amidst criticism by some civil liberties groups and EU lawmakers that the U.S. is not living up to the accord.
  
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• PostgreSQL 11 taps LLVM and parallelization for speed boost

  18-10-2018 20:18
  The powerful open source database now offers more features for data sharing, JIT-accelerated queries, and transactions inside stored procedures
  
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• Atlassian revamps Jira Software, adds roadmaps tool

  18-10-2018 18:16
  The redesign follows a multi-year migration of the popular issue-tracking app to the AWS cloud and the acquisition last year of Trello.
  
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• Melbourne Uni launches quantum simulator and environment QUI

  18-10-2018 07:09
  The University of Melbourne has launched an online quantum computer simulator and programming environment aimed at making students and industry 'quantum ready'.
  
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• Chemist Warehouse plans AR guides, IoT sensors for stores

  18-10-2018 05:41
  The Chemist Warehouse chain of discount pharmacies is contemplating installing thousands of sensors in each of its stores to track customer preferences and providing augmented reality guides via customers' smartphones that would help them navigate around its stores.
  
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• Government should consider tearing up Telstra cancer contract: Inquiry

  18-10-2018 05:03
  The Department of Health should consider terminating its contract with Telstra Health to operate two cancer screening registries, a parliamentary committee has concluded.
  
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• Technology will track mental health in Warwick workplaces - Warwick Daily News

  18-10-2018 04:52
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  Technology will track mental health in Warwick workplaces
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  WARWICK workers are set to become the focus of a first-of-its kind project that tracks employee stress levels to deliver information that can improve mental health and increase productivity in the workplace. Partnering with Australian-founded company ...and more »
  
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• Technology and poetry collide to launch the 2018 Google Impact Challenge - AdNews

  18-10-2018 04:28
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  Technology and poetry collide to launch the 2018 Google Impact Challenge
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  $5.5 million will be awarded to nonprofits and social enterprises in a ploy to encourage the use of technology to tackle some of the world's greatest social challenges. Independent agency The Hallway is behind the new advertising campaign for this year ...
  
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• IT talent war driving ‘unsustainable’ wage growth, report says

  18-10-2018 02:46
  A shortage of IT professionals in the region is driving ‘unsustainable’ wage growth and leaving smaller firms unable to compete for talent, says a report from tech role recruiter Halcyon Knights
  
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• Anti-piracy bill takes aim at ‘cyberlockers’, search engines

  18-10-2018 02:08
  The government has introduced a bill that will significantly widen the scope of Australia’s site-blocking laws.
  
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• Victoria Police to fit 220 patrol cars with number plate recognition cams

  18-10-2018 00:49
  ​Victoria Police has signed a $17.3 million contract with Motorola Solutions to fit out 220 patrol cars with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.
  
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• New anti-piracy laws to target search engines

  18-10-2018 00:27
  The government wants to significantly expand the scope of laws that currently allow copyright owners and licensees to seek court orders forcing Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block their customers from accessing sites that facilitate online piracy.
  
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