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• Brazil's Court of Auditors demands digital transformation plans from government bodies

  05-03-2021 23:25 via zdnet.com
  
  About 100 agencies must submit a strategy with timescales within three months; current situation is described as "unacceptable"
  
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• Why the mainframe is alive and thriving

  05-03-2021 21:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Mainframes are still going strong after 70 years.
  
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• Can deepfakes replace The Simpsons?

  05-03-2021 19:55
  
  Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons.
  
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• Life in 2025 with Ben Page

  05-03-2021 17:39
  
  Ben Page, CEO of leading market research company, Ipsos MORI talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore what the world could look like in 2025.
  
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• Life in 2025

  05-03-2021 17:39
  
  Ben Page, CEO of leading market research company, Ipsos MORI talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore what the world could look like in 2025.
  
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• In conversation with DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis

  05-03-2021 17:39
  
  Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams– and how to combat algorithmic bias
  
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• Zigbee inside the Mars Perseverance Mission and your smart home

  05-03-2021 17:11 via zdnet.com
  
  ZDNet talks with Tobin Richardson, CEO of Zigbee Alliance, about wireless networking on Mars and the future of smart homes.
  
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• Microsoft: We've found three more pieces of malware used by the SolarWinds attackers

  05-03-2021 16:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft and FireEye have identified a new "elegant" backdoor used by the SolarWinds attackers.
  
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• Raspberry Pi: The pocket-money priced $4 Pico nears one million orders in just two months

  05-03-2021 15:57 via zdnet.com
  
  Raspberry Pi Pico is selling like hotcakes, and at about the same price as them too.
  
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• Microsoft is opening a new Azure cloud computing region in China

  05-03-2021 15:57 via zdnet.com
  
  The cloud computing giant has announced it is opening a new region in China, as the country's demand for cloud services booms.
  
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• Valve abandons Artifact card game despite promised reboot

  05-03-2021 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The troubled card game is the latest promised rework to be abandoned by a major developer.
  
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• Samsung says moms working from home should be enjoying it (seriously)

  05-03-2021 14:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Working from home should be entertaining for parents. All you need, says Samsung, is a happy countenance and a sleepy child. Oh, and a Galaxy Tab S7.
  
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• A love letter to the brain: in his new book on AI, Jeff Hawkins is enamored of thought

  05-03-2021 14:12 via zdnet.com
  
  Hawkins has crystallized fifteen years of thinking about the neocortex, with fresh insights for AI, and novel thoughts about where humans as a species are headed.
  
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• These two unusual versions of ransomware tell us a lot about how attacks are evolving

  05-03-2021 14:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Researchers detail two new types of ransomware - AlumniLocker and Humble. Both are new and have very different ways of doing things, demonstrating the diversity in a space attackers are keep to get involved in.
  
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• Create some personal space and block out distractions working from home with this divider

  05-03-2021 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Build a distraction-free workspace anywhere you go.
  
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• Switch Always On: Keeping your broadband up, automatically

  05-03-2021 13:50 via zdnet.com
  
  Remote business locations don't always have the luxury of human intervention when network devices need to be rebooted. With Switch AlwaysOn, cloud remote monitoring and automated restarts are a snap.
  
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• FTC joins 38 states in takedown of massive charity robocall operation

  05-03-2021 13:18 via zdnet.com
  
  Over $110 million was taken from victims who believed they were funding veteran, children, and firefighter charities.
  
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• A hip-fired electromagnetic anti-drone rifle

  05-03-2021 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The war on drones has advanced well beyond the cranky neighbor with a shotgun.
  
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• Oppo's expanding phone can grow and shrink on demand

  05-03-2021 12:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The concept phone has a flexible display that rolls up inside the device.
  
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• $100 in crypto for a kilo of gold: Scammer pleads guilty to investor fraud

  05-03-2021 12:10 via zdnet.com
  
  The case brings a new meaning to a cryptocurrency gold rush.
  
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• Relay Plus adds panic button to its enterprise push-to-talk device to help hospitality workers

  05-03-2021 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  New legislation is ushering in the requirement for a panic button in certain industries, and Relay+ has a solution.
  
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• Microsoft Edge 89 brings a new way of managing your tabs

  05-03-2021 11:53 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's Edge browser now lets you put all your open tabs in a column on the side of the browser.
  
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• Insect-like flying drones and other technology news

  05-03-2021 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week.
  
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• Apps, drone deliveries and AI: How technology stepped up its game to fight COVID-19

  05-03-2021 11:31 via zdnet.com
  
  A new report highlights the benefits, but also the shortcomings, of data-informed technologies and AI in the response to the COVID-19 crisis.
  
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• Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks against US local governments

  05-03-2021 11:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Mandiant says attacks are taking place against a wide array of US targets -- local governments included.
  
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• What about Firefox?

  05-03-2021 11:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Is there a place for the plucky underdog browser any longer?
  
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• The office of the future is about people not places

  05-03-2021 11:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The future of employment will be a hybrid mix of office- and home-working. Workers will spend less time commuting and more time collaborating. Bosses will need to make sure remote workers feel connected and engaged.
  
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• Cyberattack shuts down online learning at 15 UK schools

  05-03-2021 10:04 via zdnet.com
  
  The cyberattack also took email, phone, and website communication offline.
  
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• UK competition regulator launches investigation into Apple's App Store

  05-03-2021 07:42 via zdnet.com
  
  As Australian Senators hear justification from dating app giant Match Group around doing the same down under.
  
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• Yup, now your phone screen is changing your hand gestures

  05-03-2021 07:00
  
  As smartphones takeover, the gesture for phone call has morphed from a finger and thumb to a flat palm – and that's not the only way our non-verbal communication is changing
  
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• I quit my job as a doctor to tackle the pandemic mental health crisis

  05-03-2021 07:00
  
  A high-flying New York doctor quit her career in the middle of the pandemic to help her profession cope with the mental strain of Covid-19
  
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• How Swamp Motel built the ultimate lockdown escape room

  05-03-2021 07:00
  
  When you’re not allowed to leave the house, Swamp Motel brings its immersive escape room to you
  
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• NBN's HFC pause leaves homes in limbo as copper switch-off forges ahead

  05-03-2021 06:13 via zdnet.com
  
  Leaving a 90-year old woman without a home phone service for weeks.
  
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• Homes in limbo as copper switch-off forges ahead despite NBN's HFC pause

  05-03-2021 06:13 via zdnet.com
  
  Leaving a 90-year old woman without a home phone service for weeks.
  
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• 13 Australian tech firms jointly approach ATO to 'workshop' R&D tax incentive

  05-03-2021 05:16 via zdnet.com
  
  Atlassian, Airtasker, Canva, and StartupAus are among those who want to see greater clarity around software creation within the R&D tax incentive.
  
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• Senate Committee concerned with DTA's level of IT project oversight

  05-03-2021 04:58 via zdnet.com
  
  The Australian government's digital transformation arm has got a 'lighter touch' than was pitched, Labor Senator Tim Ayres declared.
  
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• Australia's news media bargaining code is a form of ransomware, and someone paid up

  05-03-2021 03:22 via zdnet.com
  
  The battle baffled the world. The big so-called 'tech companies' now have to pay Australian news producers to use their content, but what actually happened here?
  
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• Google to shorten Chrome update cycle to four weeks

  05-03-2021 01:42 via zdnet.com
  
  It will also lower the minimum price limit of Android apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions in 20 markets.
  
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• Data experts are becoming football's best signings

  05-03-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A growing number of clubs big and small are using more technology to help performances on the pitch.
  
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• Facebook rainforest ads: Inquiry ordered into Amazon land sales

  05-03-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Supreme Court judge in Brazil orders an investigation following the BBC's report into the trade.
  
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• Samsung and Mastercard to pilot biometric payments card in South Korea

  05-03-2021 00:35 via zdnet.com
  
  The card will not require PIN or signature authorisations to make in-store transactions.
  
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• YouTube to lift Trump ban if violence threat falls, says CEO

  05-03-2021 00:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chief executive Susan Wojcicki says there's a way back for the former president on YouTube.
  
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