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• This Bill Hader Deepfake Video Is Amazing. It's Also Terrifying for Our Future. - Popular Mechanics

  13-08-2019 23:10 via popularmechanics.com
  This Bill Hader Deepfake Video Is Amazing. It's Also Terrifying for Our Future.  Popular MechanicsThe Bill Hader/Tom Cruise deepfake video is impressive, but deepfake technology could pose dangers to our democracy. Here's everything you need to know.
  
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• Windows 10's fall upgrade: Yep, it's a service pack

  13-08-2019 21:47
  When it comes to Windows, what's old is new again. The next update to Windows 10 will amount to little more than tweaks and improvements to May's Windows 10 1903.
  
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• People at King’s Cross site express unease about facial recognition - The Guardian

  13-08-2019 21:28 via theguardian.com
  People at King’s Cross site express unease about facial recognition  The GuardianMembers of the public have said there is no justification for the use of facial recognition technology in CCTV systems operated by a private developer at a ...
  
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• The intersection of technology and war - MIT News

  13-08-2019 19:34 via news.mit.edu
  The intersection of technology and war  MIT NewsMIT alumna Fiona Cunningham explores how technology affects warfare in the post-Cold War era. She studies how nations plan to use technology in conflict to ...
  
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• BAE wins DARPA contract to develop machine learning technology for space operations - SpaceNews

  13-08-2019 16:23 via spacenews.com
  BAE wins DARPA contract to develop machine learning technology for space operations  SpaceNewsBAE Systems originally won the contract for the Hallmark Tools, Capabilities, and Evaluation Methodology program in November 2017. WASHINGTON — The ...
  
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• ICS security: Popular building management system vulnerable to takeover

  13-08-2019 12:50
  Remotely exploitable vulnerability in internet-connected devices gives attackers a means to cause disruption and damage in a wide range of industries.
  
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• Microsoft pitches free help for Windows 7-to-Windows 10 upgraders

  13-08-2019 12:00
  With its FastTrack assistance program, the company will work with customers migrating from Windows 7, either Enterprise or Professional, or Windows 8.1 Enterprise or Professional, to Windows 10 Enterprise.
  
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• 10 ways connected technology has changed the homes we live in - CNBC

  13-08-2019 10:21 via cnbc.com
  10 ways connected technology has changed the homes we live in  CNBCHere's how connected and smart devices are transforming modern households.
  
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• University of Technology Sydney staff refuse China's demand for passport numbers - The Guardian

  13-08-2019 08:32 via theguardian.com
  University of Technology Sydney staff refuse China's demand for passport numbers  The GuardianMinistry of Education sought personal details including dates of birth from academics teaching Chinese-Australian course.
  
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• Technology available to achieve COAG waste crisis goals - UNSW Newsroom

  13-08-2019 07:11 via newsroom.unsw.edu.au
  Technology available to achieve COAG waste crisis goals  UNSW NewsroomA UNSW professor's Microfactory technology is the solution to Australia's waste and recycling crisis. veena_sahajwalla_-_science_headshots_april_2019_-24.
  
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• Great powers competition, technology, and how Australia can take advantage of the opportunities our region offers - The Mandarin

  13-08-2019 06:55 via themandarin.com.au
  Great powers competition, technology, and how Australia can take advantage of the opportunities our region offers  The MandarinHere is Martin Parkinson's speech delivered to the Asia Briefing Live Economy and Business Session in Sydney on 8 August.
  
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• ByteDance launches new search engine in China

  13-08-2019 05:51
  ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, has launched a new search engine in China, entering a sector currently dominated by Baidu Inc.
  
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• Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change

  13-08-2019 05:45
  As a growing number of organisations seek to become major players in today’s data-driven economy, the data centre remains one of the most important pieces of business infrastructure.
  
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• Government opposes push to limit police access to automated vehicle data

  13-08-2019 04:17
  The federal government has indicated that it opposes any move to implement new rules that could restrict law enforcement agencies from accessing data generated by automated vehicle technology and cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS).
  
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• NSW government works on AI strategy, ethics framework

  13-08-2019 02:06
  The New South Wales government is developing a strategy for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology as well as an AI ethics framework.
  
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• IBM, Tata join Hedera Hashgraph governing council

  13-08-2019 00:33
  IBM and Tata Communications have joined the governing council of Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed public ledger platform that aims to be faster and runs at a larger scale than current blockchain technologies, a top official at Hedera said.
  
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• Inside ANZ’s ‘industrialised’ CI/CD

  13-08-2019 00:15
  ANZ’s high-profile agile transformation program – dubbed New Ways of Working, or NWOW – has seen thousands of the bank’s employees shift into tribes, squads and guilds. The program is ANZ's response to the banking sector facing emerging challenges in the form of fintechs, as well as the changing expectations of customers.
  
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