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• Top Huawei executive arrested on US request

  06-12-2018 23:33
  The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, stirring up fears it could reignite a Sino-U.S. trade row and roiling global stock markets.
  
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• Encryption bill becomes law after Labor backdown

  06-12-2018 23:20
  The government was handed a last-minute victory yesterday, with opposition leader Bill Shorten and shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus scrapping plans to amend controversial encryption legislation.
  
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• Newport News is getting a downtown lab to develop marine technology - Daily Press

  06-12-2018 23:15
  Newport News is getting a downtown lab to develop marine technology  Daily PressA lab for the development of new marine technologies will be built in downtown Newport News, creating jobs and supporting the local ship building and repair ...
  
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• Technology Feature | ChIP off the old block: Beyond chromatin immunoprecipitation - Science Magazine

  06-12-2018 19:55
  Technology Feature | ChIP off the old block: Beyond chromatin immunoprecipitation  Science MagazineChromatin immunoprecipitation, now over 30 years old, modernizes to include emerging techniques such as gene editing and single-cell platforms. Read the ...
  
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• HPE CFO Outlines Secular Shift in Technology That Signals Strength into 2019 - TheStreet Tech

  06-12-2018 19:09
  HPE CFO Outlines Secular Shift in Technology That Signals Strength into 2019  TheStreet TechThe party for companies like HPE that have pinned their futures to the future of IoT, hybrid cloud, and next-gen networks may not be over....HPQ.
  
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• Microsoft Edge embraces open-source Chromium code, plans move to Windows 7, 8, and Macs

  06-12-2018 18:58
  Microsoft's Edge is embracing the open-source Chromium project and expanding to other operating systems.
  
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• Cyber security and technology returns on the rise - InvestorDaily

  06-12-2018 18:58
  Cyber security and technology returns on the rise  InvestorDailyTechnology sectors are driving the global economy with cyber security expected to see significant growth, an expert from Nasdaq said as part of a week-long ...
  
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• Huawei security fears - paranoia, blowback, or both?

  06-12-2018 15:16
  BT has made the decision to strip the equipment of Huawei from its core EE 4G network among growing security concerns about the Chinese telecom infrastructure giant's critical infrastructure footprint. Can - or should - any blame be laid on Huawei, or is this a result of paranoia, projection, or a severe lack of government oversight?
  
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• Imagining the future of Australian health care

  06-12-2018 14:00
  Between 2015-16, 10.6 million hospitalisations occurred in Australian public and private hospitals. In the same period, 712,000 patients were admitted to public hospitals from elective surgery waiting lists, only half were admitted within 37 days.
  
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• Huawei faces catastrophe in the technology cold war - The Guardian

  06-12-2018 13:51
  Huawei faces catastrophe in the technology cold war  The GuardianThe arrest in Canada of the chief financial officer of the Chinese mobile network and handset tech firm Huawei marks a new stage in a technological cold war ...
  
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• Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts: documents

  06-12-2018 12:10
  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg questioned the business case for giving millions of outside software developers wide access to customer data before endorsing the practice in 2012, according to internal emails published on Wednesday.
  
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• Top Huawei executive arrested on U.S. request, clouding China trade truce

  06-12-2018 12:04
  The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, roiling global stock markets as it threatened to inflame Sino-U.S. trade tensions afresh.
  
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• China's BYD plans to list its battery business by 2022

  06-12-2018 11:41
  China's BYD Co Ltd said on Thursday it plans to list its battery business by 2022, the electric vehicle (EV) maker's latest move to rev up its growing battery unit.
  
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• SoftBank mobile services disrupted ahead of bumper IPO, shares drop

  06-12-2018 11:29
  SoftBank Group Corp's mobile phone services were disrupted in some parts of Japan on Thursday, ahead of an initial public offering (IPO) of its domestic telecoms unit later this month that will potentially raise $21 billion.
  
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• Australia passes bill to force tech firms to hand over encrypted data

  06-12-2018 11:17
  Australia's parliament on Thursday passed a bill to force tech firms such as Alphabet Inc's Google , Facebookand Appleto give police access to encrypted data, the most far-reaching such requirements imposed by a western country.
  
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• Tesla, smarting from trade war, seeks bids for China Gigafactory construction

  06-12-2018 10:32
  Tesla has opened a tender process to build its Shanghai Gigafactory and at least one contractor has started buying materials, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, the clearest indication that construction is imminent.
  
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• Well, shit.

  06-12-2018 10:23
  Government legislation intended to help police and national security agencies intercept online communications has today been passed by both houses of parliament.
  
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• Opel/Vauxhall to make an electric van in 2020

  06-12-2018 10:01
  German carmaker Opel will start producing an electric version of its Vivaro van and a new electric Mokka X subcompact sport-utility vehicle in 2020, it said on Thursday.
  
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• Exclusive: Clues in Marriott hack implicate China - sources

  06-12-2018 09:36
  Hackers behind a massive breach at hotel group Marriott International Incleft clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter.
  
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• Space technology a journey into the future - Newcastle Herald

  06-12-2018 09:00
  Space technology a journey into the future  Newcastle HeraldWhat we're seeing now, throughout government, is an understanding that it is critically important for Australia to operate in space, both from a security point of ...
  
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• Exclusive: Tesla, smarting from trade war, seeks bids for China Gigafactory construction

  06-12-2018 09:00
  Tesla Inc has opened a tender process to build its Shanghai Gigafactory and at least one contractor has started buying materials, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, the clearest indication that construction is imminent.
  
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• China says Canada, U.S. have not explained Huawei executive's arrest

  06-12-2018 08:44
  China said on Thursday that Canada and the United States had yet to clarify their reason for arresting the daughter of Chinese tech giant Huawei's founder, in an incident that has dealt a blow to hopes of easing Sino-U.S. trade tensions.
  
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• France will tax digital giants from 2019 even if no EU-wide agreement: FinMin

  06-12-2018 08:12
  Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said France will tax digital giants at a national level from 2019 if European Union states cannot reach an agreement on a tax on digital revenues for the bloc.
  
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• East European energy firms charge into EV market

  06-12-2018 08:09
  For trips near their village in western Poland, Jacek Balcer and his wife zip around in their electric cars. But when they want to travel further afield they know it's time to bring out their diesel van or risk being stranded.
  
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• New technology could detect babies at risk of dangerous bacterial infection - 9news.com.au

  06-12-2018 07:09
  New technology could detect babies at risk of dangerous bacterial infection  9news.com.auA Victorian-first “sepsis calculator” is set to help doctors more rapidly detect newborns at risk of the dangerous bacterial infection. Sepsis is a life-threatening ...
  
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• Uber plans smaller, more cautious self-driving car launch

  06-12-2018 03:32
  Uber Technologies Inc'sis plotting the return of its self-driving cars, but the company known for its hard-charging style is taking a much more conservative approach as it tries to recover from a fatal accident that upended its autonomous vehicle program.
  
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• Avoiding surprises: technology assessment and foresight - The Strategist

  06-12-2018 03:08
  Avoiding surprises: technology assessment and foresight  The StrategistOver the past 200 years, the world has become demonstrably more connected. Rising prosperity and innovation have aligned with cycles of industrial and ...
  
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• Inside Docker and Microsoft's new open source standard

  06-12-2018 03:00
  Docker and Microsoft are making a joint bid for what they hope will be a "universal standard" to significantly simplify distributed computing.
  
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• Facebook board backs Sandberg's request to initiate research into Soros

  06-12-2018 01:46
  Facebook Inc'sboard backed Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's request to probe whether George Soros had shorted the company's stock after the billionaire investor called the social network a "menace to society."
  
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• Facebook gave data on user's friends to certain companies: documents

  06-12-2018 01:16
  Facebook Inclet some companies, including Netflixand Airbnb, access users' lists of friends after it cut off that data for most other apps around 2015, according to documents released on Wednesday by a British lawmaker investigating fake news and social media.
  
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