The new notebooks feature the latest processors from AMD and Intel, improved battery life, and ruggedized designs.

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Matt Preston from ADX, a makerspace based in Portland, Oregon, explains why entrepreneurs should be cautious when building their small business on consumer-grade 3D printers.

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More companies will be deploying robotics and artificial intelligence in finance departments.

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New figures show that Microsoft, which once equated open source with death, has now enthusiastically embraced the software model.

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Microsoft releases a smarter version of SwiftKey for Android, supercharged with a neural net trained on millions of sentences.

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Core internet networks could see a major boost in coming years with the new terabit-speed optical-fiber links of the type being unveiled by Nokia Bell Labs.

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Does it count as a data breach if no data leaves your network?

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Mobile customers of Singtel can now use Wi-Fi networks for voice calls, with the provider also announcing triple data allowances for less than SG$10 a month.

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ISPs say nearly every factor affecting individual users' speeds are out of their control, including the type of network technology, backhaul capacity, end-user hardware, distance to the exchange, and weather.

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Security experts and sysadmins be warned, the actuaries and accountants are headed your way.

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The senator responsible for introducing Australia's fibre-to-the-premises NBN, and pushing a controversial internet-filtering policy, has resigned from Parliament.

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The open-source drone software group Dronecode has forked, with some developers leaving for their own project.

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ACCAN's new mapping tool will enable consumers to check ADSL coverage and availability in their area, and provides a series of steps for troubleshooting potential issues.

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After queuing for 46 hours, Australia's first iPhone owner takes home two devices that were his second choice, saying he wouldn't have bothered if he knew beforehand.

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While speech is second nature for human beings, it is a complex and fast-developing field in computing. Learn how computers have acquired speech, and what it means for our future.

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Almost two weeks after Samsung recalled the smartphone for a battery defect, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of its own.

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Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Pappy & Company is the merchandising arm of the eponymous bourbon brand Pappy Van Winkle. With just four employees, the small e-commerce operation utilizes a range of cloud-based software and Web applications to manage the daily needs of the business.

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Some T-Mobile users experiencing connectivity issues after updating to iOS 10.

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​PC makers can take one of four paths if they want to survive: but can they really make the changes needed?

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UK central government departments suffered 8,995 data breaches in just a year but the infrastructure isn't in place to properly report them

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Google is giving marketers and publishers tools to create email that adjusts to whatever device its one billion Gmail users are viewing it in.

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Success in China sees Dell server sales climb in a tough market.

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Following Intel's release of seventh-generation Core processors, Dell has updated its popular XPS 13 laptop range with new options.

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You're out of luck if you hoped to go to an Apple store this Friday and walk away with iPhone 7 Plus or the jet black iPhone 7. Both have sold out across the globe.

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Initiative aims to improve care given to people with epilepsy through better use of data.

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New Galaxy Note 7s will have different colored battery indicators to differentiate from the original faulty phones, but questions remain whether it will quell safety concerns.

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We examine the frequency and scale of cyberattacks in the first half of 2016, and see whether security experts' predictions were on the money at the start of the year.

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Storage company Zadara aims to combine the flexibility of the cloud with the security of keeping data on-premise.

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Cloud-based backup platform Dropsuite is looking to raise AU$8 million to fund the latest international reverse takeover ASX-listing.

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Under the renewed contract, Optus and Singtel will provide ANZ with telecommunications and managed services until 2020.

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When it comes to supporting startups in the Australian ecosystem, John Paitaridis, managing director at Optus Business, has said that local organisations have a responsibility to encourage their success.

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Samsung has unloaded its shares of Sharp three years after it bought them following Taiwanese contract maker Foxconn's purchase of the Japanese electronics giant, according to a local report.

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As the biggest NBN satellite RSP, Activ8me is bearing the brunt of consumer complaints about delays in connections and third-party installers not turning up.

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The Sydney Stock Exchange has teamed up with Sydney blockchain startup Bit Trade Labs to drive a project to reduce settlement times from four days to none.

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Vodafone should invest in rolling out its own network across remote areas rather than piggybacking off Telstra's network, Telstra has said in response to the ACCC's wholesale domestic mobile roaming enquiry.

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Cloud startup Packet has raised $9.4 million with backing from SoftBank in a partnership that will expand the startup's presence across Asia and Australia through a datacentre in Tokyo.

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New Zealand ISP Bigpipe is set to upgrade customers on its unlimited NZ$129/month 200Mbps plan to 1Gbps speeds.

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The CSIRO has published a request for tender on behalf of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to replace the decommissioned Fornax system with a budget of AU$1.5 million.

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The Korean smartphone maker previously refused to recall its latest large-screen flagship model in China, claiming that Note 7 handsets sold in the country did not use fire-prone batteries.

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Microsoft released this week new Insider test builds for PCs and Windows Phones, as well as cumulative updates with lots of fixes for those Windows 10 users not in the Insider program.

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Users are installing iOS 10 faster than previous iOS releases.

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Microsoft is looking to entice more Win32 and .NET developers to bring their apps to the Windows 10 Store via its Desktop Converter, a k a its 'Centennial' bridge.

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Talking to Alexa might be easy but there's a huge amount of complexity inside Amazon's smart home assistant.

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The speaker and cloud-powered digital assistant goes on sale in UK and Germany, alongside a smaller Echo Dot device.

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Europe hopes a new set of telecoms rules, which now cover online services such as WhatsApp, will boost investments in high-speed broadband.

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Microsoft leapfrogs IBM to claim a significant test result in the quest for machines to understand speech better than humans.

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Microsoft has decided that an Internet Explorer bug it knew of last year was in fact worth patching.

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Ransomware might be lucrative for some cybercriminals, but there are those who condemn holding hospitals to ransom.

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Vodafone failed to backdate a NZ$10 discount on its Red Essentials plan for more than 15,000 customers, overcharging them by a collective NZ$92,000 in 2014.

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia has written off AU$2.5 million and paid four infringement notices totalling AU$180,000 as a result of breaching responsible lending laws when providing personal overdraft facilities.

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The 2,100km subsea cable connecting WA and NT via offshore oil and gas facilities, which is due to be acquired by Vocus later this year, has been activated by Nextgen Group.

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Labor has said it will try to ensure that only government or non-profit organisations are able to handle sensitive health data for the National Cancer Screening Register.

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By the end of October, United Overseas Bank cardholders will be able to apply for, receive, and use a new credit card issued digitally through their smartphones.

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Superloop is looking to avoid NBN's CVC charge by offering a wholesale gigabit alternative by combining its fibre network with BigAir's fibre-extender millimetre wireless solution.

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Australians will be able to petition their federal Members of Parliament from the Parliament House website shortly.

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Alastair MacGibbon believes there is no point in trying to create Silicon Valley in Australia when government and industry should instead focus on nurturing the limited pool of talent the country holds.

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Stating the power has existed for decades, the Australian Treasurer said the ATO is unlikely to block foreign websites that don't charge GST on goods and services sold to Australian citizens online.

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Microsoft's Band 2 fitness device looks to be at the end of its run. The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.

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Apple has already fixed an issue that was wreaking havoc on some iOS devices.

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Don't get too comfortable with the iPhone 7's home button.

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Researchers develop a skin-worn generator that they say beats past attempts at harvesting body heat for electricity.

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Samsung will limit the battery charging cap for Galaxy Note 7 users to 60 percent through a Over-the-Air (OTA) software upgrade on September 20 following more explosions.

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An artificial pancreas -- a closed-loop system using monitors, pumps, algorithms, and an Android smartphone -- could be hitting the market in a matter of years.

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If you want the latest iPhone as soon as it's released, it doesn't pay to sign up to Apple's Upgrade Program, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

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Rapidly evolving ransomware is also able to infect machines even if there's no connection to the command and control server for encryption

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Motorola's Moto Z lineup is now a little cheaper, and boasts a camera Moto Mod.

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Microsoft scores a major victory in the cloud after replacing incumbent providers Salesforce and Oracle at HP.

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Nvidia has launched a pair of GPUs that the chip giant claims are four times faster than last year's offering.

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The company will launch 200 miniature satellites through Virgin's LauncherOne in order to provide mobile coverage to those living in remote areas worldwide.

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Pymble Ladies' College in Sydney is flipping a typical learning model on its head, using data to gain insight into every aspect of a student, not just their test-sitting ability.

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MVNO Lebara, which has been operating off the Vodafone network since 2009, has had its Australian mobile assets acquired by the telco.

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Equinix will aid the Monet Consortium in building out a subsea cable between Florida and Brazil, along with a cable-landing station and datacentre.

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Companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter are supporting a move for the US to cede control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

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In a bid to keep up with the rapidly changing commerce scene, payments giant Visa is adopting a collaborative approach by partnering with organisations big and small for future development.

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The committee will report to both the House of Reps and the Senate on the progress, uptake, and benefits of the NBN, as well as the broadband infrastructure's global ranking.

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NAB will release its new banking app for open beta testing for Android users in the coming weeks.

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If the rest of the US follows California's lead, US consumers could save $2.2bn on electricity bills, according to one expert.

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In tomorrow's workplace, machines and people work side by side to get the job done.

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Tech chiefs are making a big bet on the public cloud: here's why.

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HP wants to shake up the enterprise copier market with Samsung's multifunctional printers.

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Protect your systems all you like but the biggest threat to security is still the worker sitting at a desk.

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Researchers find a way for computers to read pages from a book through its covers.

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With Australian businesses waiting 26.4 days on average for an invoice to be paid, PayPal Australia is hoping to reduce this wait time and the ripple effect late payment causes.

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The Australian Signals Directorate is seeking to establish a 'strategic partnership' with a service provider that will take on some of its workforce load and infrastructure growth.

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Xero has realised the power of its data, looking to extend its reach to help small businesses access finance.

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Singtel is providing the new iPhone for the lowest price point, on a SG$27.90 monthly plan plus SG$698 handset cost, while M1 has the highest data allowance of 13GB on its top-tier plans.

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Samsung will use batteries made by China's ATL for the next batch of Galaxy Note 7s instead of its former primary supplier, a South Korean report says, following the phone's recall.

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