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• ​Health hands Fred IT AU$23m for Australia-wide prescription data-sharing exchange

  23-10-2018 23:49 via zdnet.com
  ​Fred IT will lead the new national system for real-time prescription monitoring.
  
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• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure introduces AMD EPYC powered instances

  23-10-2018 23:16 via zdnet.com
  Oracle says it's the largest public cloud provider to have bare metal instances on AMD EPYC processors.
  
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• Dyson to build electric vehicle plant in Singapore

  23-10-2018 23:09 via zdnet.com
  Slated to complete in 2020, the two-storey manufacturing facility is part of the UK company's £2.5 billion (US$3,25 billion) global investment in new technology and plans to launch electric vehicles.
  
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• HP unveils $84M Singapore lab focused on digital manufacturing technologies

  23-10-2018 23:04 via zdnet.com
  Launched together with Nanyang Technological University, where it is located, the HP-NTU Corporate Innovation Lab will focus on 3D printing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
  
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• Magecart group leverages zero-days in 20 Magento extensions

  23-10-2018 22:52 via zdnet.com
  Security researcher asks for help in identifying all vulnerable Magento extensions. Only two of 20 currently identified.
  
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• Juniper beats Q3 earnings expectations in spite of slow cloud deployments

  23-10-2018 22:48 via zdnet.com
  The company has lowered its Q4 revenue expectations but still saw shares up in after-hours trading.
  
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• HP launches EliteBook x360 1040 G5, takes aim at Lenovo's ThinkPad Carbon X1

  23-10-2018 22:00 via zdnet.com
  HP wants to win over commercial customers and is making a bet that its next-gen EliteBook x360 can win over users.
  
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• Frankenstein, AI and humanity's love of fearing technology

  23-10-2018 21:32
  
  It’s 200 years old this year, but Mary Shelley's classic novel still holds a mirror up to our alarmist fantasies
  
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• Amazon adds new Business Prime benefits, including a credit card

  23-10-2018 20:49 via zdnet.com
  The new American Express card could help Amazon reach more SMBs via its B2B platform.
  
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• Rita Ora: 'I was obsessed with online comments'

  23-10-2018 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Rita Ora says women are often bullied online for the way they look and she too has felt the effects.
  
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• The market changes as Sony's mirrorless cameras are threatened by new models from Nikon and Canon

  23-10-2018 19:58 via zdnet.com
  Expect a significant change in the camera landscape as new full-frame mirrorless cameras from Nikon, Canon and -- next year -- Panasonic threaten the Sony Alphas that have dominated the market for the past five years.
  
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• FireEye links Russian research lab to Triton ICS malware attacks

  23-10-2018 19:23 via zdnet.com
  FireEye: Clues link Russia's Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics research lab to Triton-related activity.
  
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• Early AI adopters report big returns

  23-10-2018 18:51 via zdnet.com
  New study shows artificial intelligence technology is paying off, but organizations face challenges.
  
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• Does Google's great new ad have a secret message for China?

  23-10-2018 18:33 via zdnet.com
  It's communicating a simple message about Google's new phone. Or is it?
  
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• Messenger gets a major redesign to focus back on conversations

  23-10-2018 18:07
  
  A new version of Messenger is coming, and it takes cues from Messenger Lite
  
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• AI startup People.ai gets $30 million from Andreessen Horowitz to free up workplace drudgery

  23-10-2018 18:07 via zdnet.com
  San Francisco-based cloud software startup People.ai is building data "pipelines" using machine learning that will automate much of the drudgery of updating contacts in systems such as Salesforce.com. CEO Oleg Rogynskyy tells ZDNet the result can be saving executives 20 percent to 40 percent of their busywork.
  
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• This is how government spyware StrongPity uses security researchers' work against them

  23-10-2018 18:00 via zdnet.com
  While researchers are looking forward, hackers are going back to their roots to create new attacks from the ashes of old ones.
  
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• The HTC Exodus 1 is a smartphone for the blockchain generation

  23-10-2018 17:31
  
  Designed for crypto enthusiasts, HTC opens cryptocurrency-only preorders ahead of 1 December release
  
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• ​Linus Torvalds talks about coming back to work on Linux

  23-10-2018 17:07 via zdnet.com
  While in Edinburgh, I caught up with Linus Torvalds. He confided his thoughts about returning to Linux, the Code of Conduct, and some software, BPF, which is fundamentally changing how the Linux kernel and user space work together.
  
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• Oracle launches Blockchain Applications Cloud

  23-10-2018 17:05 via zdnet.com
  The initial applications, built with Oracle's Blockchain Cloud Service, are tailored for supply chain use cases.
  
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• Tableau commits $100 million toward using data, analytics to solve global issues

  23-10-2018 17:00 via zdnet.com
  Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky said the aim is to "support innovative data projects that will make a meaningful difference in the world."
  
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• Oracle introduces new enterprise digital assistant

  23-10-2018 17:00 via zdnet.com
  Going beyond typical chatbots built for a single purpose, the Oracle Digital Assistant can be trained to support domain skills from multiple applications.
  
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• ​IBM open-sources Mac sysadmin software

  23-10-2018 17:00 via zdnet.com
  IBM, yes IBM, has been giving its workers the choice of moving to Macs and they've been moving to them quickly. This, in turn, has led IBM to create, and now open source, a Mac system administration program: Mac@IBM code.
  
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• Meet the new Microsoft Phone, powered by Android (No Windows required)

  23-10-2018 16:32 via zdnet.com
  Over the past few years, Microsoft has embraced the Android operating system with surprising enthusiasm. With a large collection of apps for business available in the Google Play Store, you now have everything you need to turn an Android device into a Microsoft phone.
  
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• Mobile app data sharing 'out of control'

  23-10-2018 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Nearly 90% of apps on Google Play share data with Google parent Alphabet, researchers say.
  
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• Advertisers can track users across the Internet via TLS Session Resumption

  23-10-2018 16:11 via zdnet.com
  German researchers find that only seven of 45 browsers block TLS Session Resumption tracking.
  
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• Microsoft's former Windows Chief Terry Myerson joins two investment firms

  23-10-2018 16:04 via zdnet.com
  The former head of Microsoft's Windows unit has resurfaced after leaving the company earlier this summer and will be involved with two different investment firms.
  
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• Elon Musk says Twitter blocked him after Bitcoin tweet

  23-10-2018 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The entrepreneur says Twitter believed his account had been hacked.
  
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• Uber introduces 15p “clean air fee” on London fares

  23-10-2018 15:55
  
  The company hopes to raise £200m to fund electric cars
  
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• Google Home Hub review: So much more than an Amazon Echo Show clone

  23-10-2018 15:50
  
  Google’s smart screen is the device your smart home has been crying out for
  
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• New Raspberry Pi-like Odroid-H2 board packs Intel Gemini Lake quad-core CPU

  23-10-2018 15:47 via zdnet.com
  The new Odroid-H2 board could suit modders who want to build a Linux media and gaming system.
  
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• Tableau launches Ask Data natural language processing system

  23-10-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  By leveraging natural language processing and algorithms Tableau is hoping to deliver analytics by gauging a user's intent without knowing data dimensions, measures and structure.
  
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• Mapbox mashes up with Tableau, other BI platforms

  23-10-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Mapbox is announcing its new Geospatial Analytics Extension for Tableau today.This follows last week's announced revamp of Mapbox's custom visual for Microsoft's Power BI and its new, tighter integration with Uber's data visualization library, deck.gl.
  
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• Startup boasts unhackable email protection for the rest of us

  23-10-2018 14:51 via zdnet.com
  Life was simpler when it was just criminals ripping off your data. But today it is the state-sponsored hackers that pose the biggest threat to data security. Secure Channels Inc. is a startup addressing the whole data security lifecycle, including email.
  
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• Verizon Q3 solid as 5G ramps, but Oath is becoming a drag

  23-10-2018 14:30 via zdnet.com
  Verizon's wireless business reported solid results, but Oath -- an effort to diversify the company's revenue base -- is going to fall short of 2020 targets.
  
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• Google: Pixel 3 bug does stop some photos being saved but we have a fix coming

  23-10-2018 14:26 via zdnet.com
  Google is working on a software update for all Pixel phones after a rash of complaints about unsaved photos.
  
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• ​Tech unicorns roam Britain's cities, but will Brexit scare them away?

  23-10-2018 14:20 via zdnet.com
  Companies worth billions of dollars have been created in the UK. But competition from Europe is heating up, and Brexit looms.
  
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• Linus Torvalds returns to head Linux coding community

  23-10-2018 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Mr Torvalds took a short break from the Linux world to get help to become more polite to engineers.
  
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• SAP embraces Robotic Process Automation as part of new AI and cloud push

  23-10-2018 14:17 via zdnet.com
  The software and services vendor announced an investment in intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) that is intended to help SAP automate repetitive processes across its portfolio.
  
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• 'Instagram used more than Snapchat' by US teens

  23-10-2018 13:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Instagram has overtaken Snapchat as the most used social media app among US teens, says a study.
  
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• Raspberry Pi: Hands-on with the updated Raspbian Linux

  23-10-2018 13:47 via zdnet.com
  I have installed the new Raspbian 2018-10-09 release from scratch on some systems, and upgraded existing installations on others.Here are my experiences, observations and comments.
  
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• The Welsh government has a plan to make smart home devices speak Welsh

  23-10-2018 13:42
  
  Soon Alexa or Siri might greet you with a “shwmae”
  
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• The UK, not just London, is leading the way with business unicorns

  23-10-2018 13:13
  
  Six UK cities have at least two $1bn tech startups that call them home
  
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• New Windows 10 1809 bug: Zip data-loss flaw is months old but Microsoft missed it

  23-10-2018 13:04 via zdnet.com
  A Feedback Hub user reported the latest Windows 10 October 2018 Update bug three months ago. Microsoft has fixed the issue in preview builds of the 19H1 version of Windows 10, so it should be fixed in 1809 soon.
  
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• London Uber drivers to charge electric car fee

  23-10-2018 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The 15p fee will be handed to drivers to help them pay for an all-electric car, says ride-hailing firm
  
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• Dyson’s electric car will be built in Singapore, planned 2021 release date

  23-10-2018 12:45
  
  Despite its founder's pro-Brexit stance, Dyson is taking its electric car manufacturing to Asia
  
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• Autonomous vehicles: Expect up to 50 driverless buses on Oslo streets by 2021

  23-10-2018 12:27 via zdnet.com
  Norway's capital is starting a pilot project for real-life testing of a fleet of autonomous buses.
  
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• World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens

  23-10-2018 12:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The $20bn bridge spanning 55km is an engineering marvel but has been dogged by safety issues and delays.
  
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• Enterprise VR: How companies are piloting tech used by NFL teams

  23-10-2018 12:09 via zdnet.com
  Most employee training involves power point slides and mind-numbing presentations. VR offers a more engaging alternative.
  
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• Self-driving school bus test halted in US

  23-10-2018 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The test, which involved transporting schoolchildren, was irresponsible, the NHTSA says.
  
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