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• Airbnb reverses decision to remove Israeli West Bank homes from website - The Guardian

  10-04-2019 23:08 via theguardian.com
  Airbnb reverses decision to remove Israeli West Bank homes from website  The GuardianThe company decided to list the Jewish settler homes to settle a lawsuit from Israeli lawyers on behalf of property hosts. Guardian staff and agencies. Wed 10 ...
  
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• Cisco taps into AWS for data centre, cloud applications

  10-04-2019 23:06
  Cisco Cloud ACI for AWS lets customers manage and secure applications running in the data center or in Amazon Web Service cloud environments
  
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• Technology that 'never sleeps, never gives up' looking for missing and exploited children - CNN

  10-04-2019 22:17 via cnn.com
  Technology that 'never sleeps, never gives up' looking for missing and exploited children  CNNFacial recognition software searches the web for pictures matching those of missing children.
  
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• Mary Lou Jepsen On Technology That Can Literally Read Your Mind - FOX News Radio

  10-04-2019 22:03 via radio.foxnews.com
  Mary Lou Jepsen On Technology That Can Literally Read Your Mind  FOX News RadioGreg's guest today is CEO and Founder of Openwater, Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen. They discuss the company's goal of creating non-invasive imaging technologies, ...
  
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• NBN complaints to telco ombudsman drop

  10-04-2019 16:01
  Complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) about NBN service quality dropped from 4.1 per thousand premises to 2.1 per thousand premises in the space of 12 months.
  
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• Three Technology Trends Enabling Digital Transformation Of The Supply Chain - Forbes

  10-04-2019 15:56 via forbes.com
  Three Technology Trends Enabling Digital Transformation Of The Supply Chain  ForbesBlockchain, Digital Twin and Big Data are driving digital transformation in the supply chain and helping industries like retail, automotive and pharmaceutical to ...
  
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• Meet the biohackers who are putting technology into their own bodies - The Next Web

  10-04-2019 15:52 via thenextweb.com
  Meet the biohackers who are putting technology into their own bodies  The Next WebTechnology has become increasingly intrusive. Just a few decades ago, the idea of being near-constantly tethered to a device may have been unpalatable, ...
  
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• Google Cloud launches fully managed serverless product Cloud Run

  10-04-2019 15:16
  Google Cloud signalled its commitment to serverless computing today with the announcement of the public beta availability of Cloud Run, a fully managed environment for customers to deploy applications in a 'serverless' way.
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to boost electric car tax credits

  10-04-2019 15:03
  A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers will introduce legislation on Wednesday to expand the electric vehicle tax credit by400,000 vehicles per manufacturer, a provision that would give a boost to General Motors Co and Tesla Inc before the existing credit comes to an end for them.
  
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• This is the first ever photo of a black hole - MIT Technology Review

  10-04-2019 15:00 via technologyreview.com
  This is the first ever photo of a black hole  MIT Technology ReviewThe scientists behind it spent a decade using a virtual telescope the size of Earth to create this historic image.
  
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• German regulator proposes to hike fees Deutsche Telekom can impose on rivals

  10-04-2019 14:39
  Germany's Federal Network Agency on Wednesday said Deutsche Telekom could raise fees it charges rivals for accessing its "last mile" infrastructure, the last bit of cable connecting customers to the internet.
  
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• First Cobalt targets Canada plant restart within two years: CEO

  10-04-2019 14:00
  First Cobalt Corp aims to restart an idled cobalt refinery in Canada within two years and is in talks to supply the battery-grade product to four leading automakers, chief executive Trent Mell said on Wednesday.
  
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• Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guests' personal data: Symantec

  10-04-2019 12:56
  Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests' booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according toresearch released by Symantec Corp on Wednesday.
  
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• Deutsche Telekom says customers, operators pay price for 5G auction

  10-04-2019 10:52
  The CEO of Deutsche Telekom criticized the amount companies will have to pay to get fifth generation mobile internet spectrum in Germany as the amount of total bids approached 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) on Wednesday.
  
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• Japan telcos' 5G go-ahead cements curbs on Chinese vendors

  10-04-2019 09:41
  Japan's telcos were formally allocated 5G spectrum by regulators on Wednesday, a major milestone ahead of the launch of high-speed wireless services next spring.
  
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• U.S. firm's plan for Australia-China internet cable leaves Huawei trailing

  10-04-2019 08:04
  U.S. submarine cable company SubCom said on Thursday it would lay an internet link from Australia to Hong Kong through Papua New Guinea, deepening its involvement in a region where China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has sought to expand.
  
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• March mobile phone shipments to China fall 6 percent as economy slows

  10-04-2019 08:02
  Shipments of mobile phones to China fell 6 percent in March compared with the same year-earlier month, official figures showed on Wednesday, as slowing economic growth took a toll on the sector.
  
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• Triton intrusion discovered at second industrial facility

  10-04-2019 07:31
  ​Intrusion activity attributed to the same group which attacked the industrial safety systems of a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in 2017 has been uncovered at a second facility, security researchers have confirmed.
  
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• Wireless network congestion could be underreported, NBN Co confirms

  10-04-2019 07:11
  NBN Co’s chief executive Stephen Rue has confirmed that the network operator’s publicly released fixed wireless performance data may not reflect the congestion encountered by end users on the NBN.
  
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• China game-streaming firm Huya raises $327 million secondary offering

  10-04-2019 06:06
  Chinese game-streaming company Huya Inc, backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd, raised $327 million in a follow-on share offering, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
  
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• H2 Cable and SubCom build direct link from Australia to Hong Kong

  10-04-2019 04:00
  ​Singapore-based H2 Cable has signed a contract with fibre optic cable network manufacturer and operator, SubCom to supply and install the H2 submarine cable system, connecting Australia and Hong Kong.
  
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• Air New Zealand demos on-demand printing of aircraft parts

  10-04-2019 03:56
  Air New Zealand has staged a proof of concept demonstration of on-demand 3D printing of replacement aircraft parts in partnership with Microsoft and aerospace industry players.
  
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• Exclusive: Uber plans to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in IPO - sources

  10-04-2019 03:45
  Uber Technologies Inc has decided it will seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in its initial public offering, and will make public the registration of the offering on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
  
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• Qualcomm aims to take on Nvidia, Intel with new AI chips

  10-04-2019 03:21
  Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday unveiled a new chip for speeding up artificial intelligence work, aiming to diversify beyond its stronghold in mobile phone chips and into a fast-growing market now dominated by Nvidia Corp and Intel Corp.
  
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• Construction of new Defence HPC centre to kick-off mid-year

  10-04-2019 03:17
  Defence is in the final stages of procuring a head contractor to lead the construction of a new high performance computing centre in South Australia.
  
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• 'Institutes of Technology' to boost skills training - BBC News

  10-04-2019 03:07 via bbc.com
  'Institutes of Technology' to boost skills training  BBC NewsThe locations of 12 Institutes of Technology - aiming to provide high-quality skills training - are revealed.
  
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• Up to 6,000 Telstra employees on strike in Australia

  10-04-2019 02:42
  In another action against Telstra's plan to let go 9,500 staff by 2022, up to 6,000 Telstra workers are expected to go on strike today.
  
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• Telstra confirms 500 employees went on strike

  10-04-2019 02:42
  In another action against Telstra's plan to let go 9,500 staff by 2022, up to 6,000 Telstra workers are expected to go on strike today.
  
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• Australia Post turns to Google Cloud for analytics

  10-04-2019 02:42
  Australia Post is using Google Cloud Platform to underpin enterprise data analytics platform.
  
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• China wants to ban bitcoin mining

  10-04-2019 01:45
  China's state planner wants to eliminate bitcoin mining in the country, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on the cryptocurrency sector.
  
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• Canberra hosts Google-backed drone delivery trials

  10-04-2019 01:42
  Google parent Alphabet's drone service made its first air delivery in Canberra on Tuesday after getting approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
  
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• Navy launches $600m program to upgrade on-ship IT

  10-04-2019 01:35
  The government has committed $600 million towards a major upgrade of the IT environment on Royal Australian Navy ships.
  
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• Darknet market bundling card details with device fingerprints to beat fraud detection

  10-04-2019 01:30
  Researchers have uncovered an invitation-only Tor-concealed marketplace where stolen credit card details are bundled with the victim's device fingerprint, meaning criminal buyers can use them to beat numerous fraud detection systems.
  
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• Virgin Galactic's first test passenger gets commercial astronaut wings

  10-04-2019 00:12
  Virgin Galactic’s first test passenger received her commercial astronaut wings from the U.S. aviation regulator on Tuesday after flying on the company’s rocket plane to evaluate the customer experience in February.
  
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