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• Rating IoT devices to gauge their impact on your network

  29-08-2019 23:51
  With the wide range of internet of things devices being connected to business networks, there’s no cookie-cutter solution to building networks to support them, but assessing their needs can help.
  
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• Rating IoT devices to gauge network impact

  29-08-2019 23:51
  One difficulty designing Internet of Things implementations is the large number of moving parts.
  
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• Amazon to offer help for customers who search about suicide

  29-08-2019 23:09
  Amazon.com Inc plans to promote helpline phone numbers to customers who query its site about suicide, the company told Reuters on Thursday, after searches on its site suggested users search for nooses and other potentially harmful products.
  
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• Man who was paralyzed is able to walk again thanks to technology - ABC News

  29-08-2019 21:05 via abcnews.go.com
  Man who was paralyzed is able to walk again thanks to technology  ABC NewsLyle Fleming had been waiting a long time to walk across the room. Interested in Technology? Add Technology as an interest to stay up to date on the latest ...
  
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• U.S. Prosecutors Probe Huawei on New Allegations of Technology Theft - The Wall Street Journal

  29-08-2019 20:17 via wsj.com
  U.S. Prosecutors Probe Huawei on New Allegations of Technology Theft  The Wall Street JournalU.S. prosecutors are looking into additional instances of alleged technology theft by Huawei Technologies Co., according to people familiar with the matter, ...
  
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• Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies - World Economic Forum

  29-08-2019 18:54 via weforum.org
  Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies  World Economic ForumEnsuring equity, interoperability, transparency and trust in the governance of distributed ledger technology – and accelerating the necessary changes for this ...
  
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• Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - World Economic Forum

  29-08-2019 18:54 via weforum.org
  Shaping the Future of Technology Governance: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning  World Economic ForumAccelerating the societal benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning while ensuring equity, privacy, transparency, accountability and social impact.
  
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• Low-carbon technology fund is tonic for Scottish gin maker - The Guardian

  29-08-2019 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Low-carbon technology fund is tonic for Scottish gin maker  The GuardianA craft distillery in Scotland could become the greenest gin and whisky producer in the world as part of the government's plans to cut industrial climate emissions ...
  
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• The Technology Trap explores how this technological age differs from previous industrial revolutions. - City Journal

  29-08-2019 17:45 via city-journal.org
  The Technology Trap explores how this technological age differs from previous industrial revolutions.  City JournalThe march of technological progress that brought American workers so far seems in recent decades to have left them behind, leaving technologists, economists, ...
  
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• Huawei's next flagship phone blocked from using Google apps - The Guardian

  29-08-2019 16:11 via theguardian.com
  Huawei's next flagship phone blocked from using Google apps  The GuardianUS trade ban means Mate 30 will be launched without Google Maps and YouTube.
  
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• Islet-on-a-chip technology streamlines diabetes research - Harvard Gazette

  29-08-2019 14:00 via news.harvard.edu
  Islet-on-a-chip technology streamlines diabetes research  Harvard GazetteIslet-on-a-chip technology allows clinicians to easily determine the therapeutic value of beta cells for any given patient.
  
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• Apple apologises for allowing workers to listen to Siri recordings - The Guardian

  29-08-2019 11:59 via theguardian.com
  Apple apologises for allowing workers to listen to Siri recordings  The GuardianContractors graded accidental activations including recordings of users having sex.
  
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• Apple to stop default practice of keeping Siri recordings

  29-08-2019 11:24
  Apple Incon Wednesday said it would quit its default practice of retaining audio recordings of the requests users make to its Siri personal assistant and limit human review of what audio it does collect to its own employees rather than contractors.
  
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• South Korea court ruling raises chance of Samsung heir's return to jail

  29-08-2019 11:03
  South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a bribery case against the heir of the Samsung Group should be reviewed by a lower court, raising the possibility of a tougher sentence and potential return to jail.
  
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• Tesla's Musk, Alibaba's Ma talk aliens and AI, skip issues like trade

  29-08-2019 10:21
  TeslaCEO Elon Musk and Alibabafounder Jack Ma discussed Mars and artificial intelligence but steered clear of the U.S.-China trade war in their first joint appearance on Thursday that some audience members said was disappointing.
  
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• Microsoft Opens Up exFAT File System Technology, Wants It In The Linux Kernel - Forbes

  29-08-2019 10:13 via forbes.com
  Microsoft Opens Up exFAT File System Technology, Wants It In The Linux Kernel  ForbesFirst Microsoft added a real Linux kernel to Windows 10. Now Redmond wants to see exFAT in the mainline Linux kernel.
  
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• Factbox: South Korea's top court ruling on Samsung heir and ex-president

  29-08-2019 08:32
  Samsung Group will discover the fate of its de facto leader on Thursday as South Korea's Supreme Court rules whether to uphold the bribery conviction of Jay Y. Lee, in a scandal that unseated the president and trained public ire on corporate untouchables.
  
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• South Korea's top court returns Samsung heir Lee's bribery case for review

  29-08-2019 08:06
  South Korea's Supreme court on Thursday overturned part of an appeals court ruling in the bribery case of Samsung Group's de facto chief Jay Y. Lee, who had been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence for seeking favor from the country's ex-leader.
  
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• As AI and technology invade the workforce, creativity and emotional intelligence will reign supreme - Business Insider Australia

  29-08-2019 06:58 via businessinsider.com.au
  As AI and technology invade the workforce, creativity and emotional intelligence will reign supreme  Business Insider AustraliaIn 2018 the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney delivered a sobering speech about the outlook for workers in this fourth industrial revolution currently ...
  
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• Facebook acknowledges flaw in Messenger Kids app

  29-08-2019 05:48
  Facebook Incacknowledged a flaw in its Messenger Kids app, weeks after two U.S. senators raised privacy concerns about the application, and said that it spoke to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about the matter.
  
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• Asics to bring runners better workout data after Snowflake shift

  29-08-2019 05:29
  Asics Digital, the data-centric subsidiary of Japanese sportswear giant Asics, recently shifted its data warehouse from a creaking Amazon Redshift instance to Snowflake's cloud-native solution in a bid to better support its growing portfolio of digital services, such as the Runkeeper and Asics Studio apps.
  
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• Microsoft says new augmented reality headset to go on sale in September

  29-08-2019 05:27
  Microsoft Corp's second generation HoloLens augmented reality headset will go on sale in September, the company's executive vice president Harry Shum said on Thursday.
  
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• Woolworths sees jump in online business

  29-08-2019 05:24
  Woolworths Group has reported 32 per cent sales growth (on a normalised basis) across its online businesses. In total during FY19 online channels brought in $2.5 billion for the retailer.
  
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• AEMO to act as central gateway for consumer energy data

  29-08-2019 05:12
  The federal government has officially extended the Consumer Data Right regime to cover the energy sector.
  
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• Hikvision, a surveillance powerhouse, walks U.S.-China tightrope

  29-08-2019 04:25
  For China's Hikvision, the world's largest purveyor of video surveillance systems and a vendor to Xinjiang police agencies, a moment of reckoning may be at hand.
  
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• Facebook tightens rules for U.S. political advertisers ahead of 2020 election

  29-08-2019 03:46
  Facebook Inc is tightening its political ad rules in the United States, it said on Wednesday, requiring new disclosures for its site and photo-sharing platform Instagram ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November 2020.
  
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• Huawei plans high-end phone launch under cloud of Google ban

  29-08-2019 03:45
  Huawei Technologies plans to forge ahead with the launch of new high-end smartphones in Europe even though it may not be able to offer Google's official Android operating system and widely used apps such as Google Maps, company executives told Reuters.
  
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• Tesla rolls out insurance in California

  29-08-2019 03:37
  Tesla Incsaid on Wednesday it was launching an insurance service designed to give drivers in California, its biggest market, lower rates because of safety features on its electric vehicles.
  
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• NextDC makes $10M loss after ‘record investment’

  29-08-2019 02:43
  NextDC has ended a year of heavy data centre expansion with a $9.8 million loss.
  
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• Huawei wants to build first fiber-optic cable between South America and Asia

  29-08-2019 01:59
  Huawei said on Wednesday it was "very actively" interested in building the first undersea fiber-optic cable between South America and Asia.
  
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• Infosys given deadline for handing over source code in Qudos case

  29-08-2019 00:54
  Infosys has been given until 3 September to hand over a range of source code to Qudos Bank as part of an intellectual property case currently before the Federal Court.
  
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• Apple's data shows a deepening dependence on China as Trump's tariffs loom

  29-08-2019 00:07
  Tapping factories in Brazil and India has not lessened Apple Inc'sdependence on China, the company's supply chain data shows, raising the stakes for the iPhone maker as U.S. President Donald Trump wages a trade war and promises more tariffs.
  
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