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• HP CEO Dion Weisler set to depart

  22-08-2019 23:08
  Dion Weisler has unveiled plans to exit as CEO of HP, returning home to Australia due to a “family heath matter”.
  
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• We now have the technology to create a grid of cheap fully renewable electricity - MarketWatch

  22-08-2019 19:37 via marketwatch.com
  We now have the technology to create a grid of cheap fully renewable electricity  MarketWatchThe main solution to climate change is well known — stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, ...
  
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• Ruffle project hopes to resurrect Flash Player

  22-08-2019 18:00
  The project uses Rust and WebAssembly to allow playback of Flash media more securely than the original Adobe player
  
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• What to Play: Brilliant and heartbreaking, 'Eliza' explores technology and mental health - Los Angeles Times

  22-08-2019 17:00 via latimes.com
  What to Play: Brilliant and heartbreaking, 'Eliza' explores technology and mental health  Los Angeles Times"Black Mirror" fans may want to play "Eliza," a game about technology, mental health and the perils of automated therapy and intimacy.
  
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• Ruby on Rails 6.0 adds rich text capabilities

  22-08-2019 17:00
  JavaScript, database support also get nods
  
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• San Francisco crowdfunder Kiva sets up Sierra Leone credit database

  22-08-2019 15:15
  (This August 21 story corrects to make clear Kiva a nonprofit organisation, not charity, paragraph 1.)
  
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• Volkswagen CEO wants a stake in Tesla: Manager Magazin

  22-08-2019 15:10
  VolkswagenCEO Herbert Diess wants to take a stake in Teslato access the U.S. company's software and batteries technology, German business publication Manager Magazin reported on Thursday.
  
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• India needs to reduce ecommerce restrictions to revive economy: Amazon executive

  22-08-2019 14:53
  India needs to encourage ecommerce and reduce red tape to help small businesses sell online and export goods to help revive sagging domestic economic growth, a senior Amazon.com executive said on Wednesday.
  
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• South Korea's top court to rule on Samsung heir's bribery case on August 29

  22-08-2019 13:50
  South Korea's Supreme Court is to rule next Thursday on whether to uphold a reduced sentence given to Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee or ask an appeals court to revisit a case that was part of a graft scandal that brought down the president in 2017.
  
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• Fintech firm Pagaya issuing $115 million asset-backed security

  22-08-2019 13:40
  U.S.-Israeli Pagaya, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to manage institutional money, said on Thursday it is issuing a $115 million consumer credit asset-backed security (ABS) led by structuring agent Cantor Fitzgerald.
  
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• China telcos weigh sharing 5G network to cut costs, potentially hurting Huawei

  22-08-2019 13:21
  China Telecom said on Thursday it is ready to build a 5G mobile network with its rivals in order to reduce costs, a proposal that is likely to cut multi-billion dollar equipment orders for vendors such as Huawei Technologies.
  
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• Breakthroughs seen in artificial eye and muscle technology - Phys.org

  22-08-2019 13:06 via phys.org
  Breakthroughs seen in artificial eye and muscle technology  Phys.orgInspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an adaptive ...
  
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• Microsoft promotes 'full-Chromium' Edge to Beta, touts enterprise skillset

  22-08-2019 12:00
  Microsoft on Tuesday launched a Beta build of its browser for all supported editions of Windows, including 7 and 10, and macOS.
  
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• Explainer: Macron's quest for an international tax on digital services

  22-08-2019 11:24
  French President Emmanuel Macron is pressing ahead with a digital tax in France, a move U.S. President Donald Trump described as "foolishness", and the French leader is keen to reach an international agreement on taxing big tech companies.
  
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• TeraWatt Technology solid-state battery prototype tests showing 432 kWh/kg - Green Car Congress

  22-08-2019 10:43 via greencarcongress.com
  TeraWatt Technology solid-state battery prototype tests showing 432 kWh/kg  Green Car CongressTeraWatt Technology announced that its 4.5Ah prototype solid-state battery design achieved a record-breaking energy density of 432Wh/kg (1122Wh/L) in ...
  
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• Essential Technology Books For Non-Technical Founders - Forbes

  22-08-2019 10:30 via forbes.com
  Essential Technology Books For Non-Technical Founders  ForbesTop five books to introduce non-technical founders to the confusing world of tech. Learning concepts and processes rather than coding is the best use of the ...
  
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• Fitbit targets 1 million new users with Singapore government tie-up

  22-08-2019 08:26
  Fitbit Incsaid on Wednesday it signed a contract with the Singapore government to provide fitness trackers and services in a health program it said could reach up to one million users.
  
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• Origin Energy grows broadband base

  22-08-2019 08:15
  Origin Energy ended FY19 with around 8000 broadband customers, the company reported today.
  
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• Facebook shuts dozens of Myanmar social media accounts over 'inauthentic behavior'

  22-08-2019 07:59
  Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had shut 216 social media pages, groups and accounts in Myanmar, some tied to the army, to stymie efforts to "manipulate or corrupt public debate".
  
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• Former CBA IT exec unlikely to face trial until 2020

  22-08-2019 04:58
  Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia IT executive Jon Waldron is unlikely to stand trial before May 2020 at the earliest.
  
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• Citigroup, BNP caught up in U.S. case against Huawei CFO: documents

  22-08-2019 03:52
  U.S.-based Citigroup Incand French bank BNP Paribas are caught up in the U.S. criminal case against the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies,according to newly available documents.
  
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• WA's IT love-fest continues as Perth technology tower takes shape - Sydney Morning Herald

  22-08-2019 03:31 via smh.com.au
  WA's IT love-fest continues as Perth technology tower takes shape  Sydney Morning HeraldPerth is in the midst of an IT love-fest with the construction of Australia's most advanced data centre under way in East Perth.
  
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• Lithium Australia advances LieNA sustainable spodumene processing technology - Small Caps

  22-08-2019 02:36 via smallcaps.com.au
  Lithium Australia advances LieNA sustainable spodumene processing technology  Small CapsLithium Australia (ASX: LIT) has started a preliminary feasibility study for its LieNA spodumene processing technology, which doesn't use conventional ...
  
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• Vocus revenues flat following 'year of significant change'

  22-08-2019 02:32
  Vocus has come out a self-described "year of significant change" with a 44 per cent drop in net profit after tax (NPAT) to $34 million.
  
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• Why technology is the big advantage for small companies - Livewire Markets

  22-08-2019 02:27 via livewiremarkets.com
  Why technology is the big advantage for small companies  Livewire MarketsTechnology once presented a major barrier to entry and often stifled competition. So what changed? We see the explosion in the cloud as a catalyst for why we ...
  
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• Coles’ online business makes a profit for the first time

  22-08-2019 01:44
  Coles Online for the first time in its two-decade history achieved profitability in FY19.
  
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• Breakthrough graphene technology could create next generation of super computers - Small Caps

  22-08-2019 00:54 via smallcaps.com.au
  Breakthrough graphene technology could create next generation of super computers  Small CapsA new method could make graphene a key component in the creation of faster, smaller and lighter high-performance computers, according to scientists.
  
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• Downer strengthens mining fleet with Position Partners technology - Australian Mining

  22-08-2019 00:53 via australianmining.com.au
  Downer strengthens mining fleet with Position Partners technology  Australian MiningDowner Group plans to upgrade the technology on its mining fleet across four Australian sites with Carlson machine guidance solutions supplied by Position ...
  
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