Like its rival Staples, this office superstore has plenty of PC deals -- but no iPad sales.

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Who doesn't want to be a Macgyver, fixing situations with a Swiss Army Knife, a paperclip, and a piece of string. Updated with reader suggestions.

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How MediaBrix, a mobile AdTech company, is using half a dozen Microsoft cloud data components to get its work done.

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Forget about measuring your cell signal strength using just dots or bars - this simple hack allows you to see the actual signal strength your iPhone is receiving.

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The new SLES includes improvements across the board.

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It all came down to "genius" real-time marketing skills.

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Not everyone is affected by the apparent bug, which "memorializes" profiles in the event of a Facebook user's death.

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CrowdTangle's platform helps businesses measure social performance, and identify traffic-generating content and social influencers.

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Georgia Tech researchers have created an artificial skin that could give robots a better sense of touch.

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Most Salesforce users don't have a clear integration strategy beyond manual coding, and it's unclear who should do it.

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This week's headlines: Putin's war on American tech companies escalates. Also, Yahoo admits in an SEC filing that it knew about a major breach as early as 2014, a big-time VC predicts 80 percent of IT jobs will be replaced by automation, and Samsung responds to the nightmarish Galaxy Note 7 recall.

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This is a well-thought-out rugged handset with a high-quality screen, good ergonomics and a feature set that should help mobile workers in a variety of vertical markets get their jobs done.

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Using an artificial intelligence algorithm that mined social media, MogIA predicted Trump would win when almost no one else did.

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Cheekily squaring up to the Surface Pro 4, the community-designed Eve V finds its own 2-in-1 spec superior to Microsoft's in almost every department.

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There's a lot of great PC hardware out there. Let's take a look at the best of the best.

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Researchers have trained Google's mini gesture-reading radars to recognize objects and even see inside them.

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His campaign speeches lambasting outsourcing and offshoring don't bode well for the industry already reeling from dramatic disruption.

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Many small businesses with tight budgets are facing a tough choice: Stick with obsolete systems and remain vulnerable to hackers, or spend a lot to install new gear. David Gewirtz shows how Linux can help you preserve your investment while staying safe and secure.

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Intelligence agencies are looking for young tech enthusiasts, but if you plan to apply for one of their jobs, make you sure you keep keep quiet about it.

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Emails tell victims they need to download an attachment to view "suspicious activity" - then infects them with ransomware.

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The electronics chain is the first to announce discounts on Apple's MacBooks and iMacs.

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Sprint continues to improve it's network technology and the new HTC Bolt is being launched to promote its LTE Plus network with 3x20 MHz carrier aggregation.

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Music-streaming service Spotify has released an important update that stops its desktop client tearing into storage drives with massive and unnecessary write rates.

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The Bolt runs Android 7.0 Nougat and ships with support for Sprint's latest network protocols.

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The tech giant began the rollout of its latest smartwatch in its home country on Friday, a week before its release in Australia, Singapore, the UK, the US, Dubai, France, and Germany on November 18.

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The bank's digital general manager Todd Copeland has said NAB focused on the customer experience with its new internet banking app.

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Names, email addresses, and other personal information belonging to customers of the global recruitment firm has been leaked online.

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The retail giant also has several other tablets and laptops on sale for as little as $28.

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The social media behemoth's Connectivity Lab has claimed to hit nearly 20Gbps over a 13km link.

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Ecommerce giant Alibaba has processed $1 billion in transactions via Alipay within the first five minutes of its annual shopping event.

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Nvidia ​posted record-revenue for the quarter, and once again credits strong sales of its GPUs and deep learning technology for the boost on its balance sheet.

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The NSA whistleblower spoke for the first time since Trump's election victory.

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According to ​Cisco's Global Cloud Index report, cloud traffic will rise 3.7-fold to 14.1ZB per year by 2020.

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Trump made it to the presidency with big plans and few details. It's not any different with technology, but here's what we know.

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The Japanese giant is partnering with US startup Zimperium to offer its mobile security application to Japanese iPhone users.

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The payments processor offers up the latest integration making voice-activated assistants increasingly useful.

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Chatbots have enjoyed wide adoption already, but with new developments in artificial intelligence and other technology, they will become even more useful to businesses.

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The partnership will make it easier for BigCommerce merchants to sell on the eBay marketplace.

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Former Eastern Europe operations director takes over

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The general idea is that Business iQ will take AppDynamics more into business analytics as it courts CIOs, line of business execs and developers.

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Sitting out on the iPhone 7 while you wait for Apple to update the cheap but cheerful iPhone SE? You might be in for a long wait.

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Scammers pretending to be your boss are engaging in informal office conversation before asking to wire them funds.

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The $130 Snapchat-connected smart glasses are going to be hard to find.

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IBM says its newly-unveiled Project Intu promises to make it simpler to bring Watson to the physical world.

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A look at Google's first Daydream VR headset and phone, which combine to create an immersive, intuitive experience.

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Microsoft is targeting Office 365 users who aren't using locally installed Office 2016 apps with a new pop-up ad. Here's how to turn off that notification.

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Samsung has opened the doors to a limited beta, offering early access to Android 7.0 Nougat on the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge.

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Meng Hongwei, who is China's vice minister of public security, assumes his new role as president immediately for a four-year tenure and pledges to adhere to Interpol's principles.

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Adobe makes a play for a big video advertising market across multiple screens with the purchase of TubeMogul.

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Should creative pros worry about the 16GB limit on the new MacBook Pro? No, because you don't need it. Here's why.

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With its latest hardware and software, the Swedish company is hoping to democratize the use of eye-tracking technology in fields like psychology and neuroscience.

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Company says investment will help "further propel graph technology into the mainstream".

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Munich politicians demand answers about report that suggests the authority ruling Germany's third largest city could make Windows 10 and Microsoft Office available across the council.

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Google has set out new rules for Android handset makers on how they implement fast-charging technology.

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Need help navigating Windows 10? Let Windows pro Ed Bott be your guide.

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If you've ever wanted Siri to have a male voice or a different accent, all you need to do is change these settings on your iPhone.

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Serving as its Asia-Pacific headquarter, Google's new Singapore office spans four floors and has grown from just 24 employees in 2007.

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Social media platform scores a major deal that will put the country's 143,000 government employees on its collaboration platform by March next year.

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Australia's average 4G download connection speed is 32.5Mbps, while availability stands at 79.34 percent, according to a report by OpenSignal.

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Farmers in Queensland can now spray crops from drones after legislation was amended to encourage crop protection.

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Pat Gelsinger has said that with the proliferation of cloud, the biggest challenge for IT leaders is providing business leaders the freedom to choose what tech they use, while maintaining control.

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The Singaporean telco giant's local performance was steady, with its Indonesian and Indian associates growing by double digits, but overall it was pulled lower by Optus.

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The Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training has re-opened an inquiry to ensure Australia's tertiary system can meet the needs of a future labour force that is focused on innovation and creativity.

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Over the previous financial year, Australia's Information Commissioner found 94 breaches affecting a total of 98 healthcare recipients that held a My Health Record.

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In its home country on Friday, Samsung will launch the Galaxy S7 Edge with the color that was widely-praised on the now defunct Note 7.

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The retailer offers the first deals on iPads, providing actual discounts instead of selling them at full price with store gift cards like in past years.

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Data privacy needs to be ingrained into the minds of businesses and engineers, especially as Internet of Things and mobile devices become more widely used.

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For the half year, Optus has seen its revenue fall by more than 10 percent, and EBITDA decrease by 5 percent to AU$1.28 billion.

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The federal government has announced the appointment of Dr Tobias Feakin as Australia's inaugural ambassador for cyber affairs.

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Microsoft has issued a firmware fix meant to fix a second Surface Pro 3 battery issue affecting some users.

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Current finance chief Anthony Noto will take over Bain's COO duties. It's not immediately clear if any other executives have been shuffled amid Bain's departure.

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Insurance technology startup Cape Analytics is emerging from stealth mode with $14 million in VC money in its back pocket.

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Hidden cultural bias led to seriously flawed election forecasts. Enterprises face similar challenges as they harness their Big Data and put it to work

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The internet did well during the election, but one site took it on the chin and is still staggering.

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Two weeks after GoPro's Karma drone launched, it is being recalled for unexpected power failure.

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Usually, ignorance is bliss. But not when you're the leader of the free world.

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The latest Windows 10 Creators Update test build for PCs and phones, No. 14965, adds some new monitor-control, inking and other capabilities.

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President-Elect Trump's cybersecurity plan is a bit vague and starts with a comprehensive review of vulnerabilities. Forrester Research predicts a cybercrisis will land in first 100 days of the Trump administration.

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After only five days of sales, it seems that Apple's new MacBook Pro has wiped the floor with the competition.

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Designed for photo and video editing, the ViewSonic VP2468 is built around a full-HD AH-IPS panel and WLED backlight, delivering very creditable managed colour performance at a reasonable price.

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Similar to Lenovo's approach with its Moto phones, BlackBerry provides a pure Google experience with productivity and security enhancements that make it the best value flagship available today.

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In Windows 10, the built-in Administrator account is disabled. You can open a Command Prompt window and enable it with two commands, but think twice before you go down that road.

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Forrester's forecast: Leading financial firms will focus on improving customer journeys, while laggards will get distracted by bright and shiny technologies.

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Volkswagen already uses AI to predict business trends -- but AI will go much further in the future.

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Facebook CSO Alex Stamos reveals how the company is working to keep you safe online and explains why governments should help, not hinder.

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Using IoT devices for personal security is not about the technology itself, according to Canary.

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Nutanix said it is developing network visualization and orchestration as well as security features via on-click.

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Google gets a human hand to help train machines to classify apps by topics to make it easier for users to search for apps with general queries.

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Microsoft conducted a survey recently and found that almost half of its Australian respondents are looking to move their organisation into hybrid cloud.

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Samsung has beaten Google to fixing the serious Linux Dirty Cow flaw, which also affects nearly all Android devices.

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To grow as a conversant AI, Google's Assistant needs to have lots of conversations. But unlike Google's ubiquitous search, the Assistant is available only in three little-used contexts for now.

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Sites considered repeat malware offenders by Google won't be able to contest security warnings shown in Chrome for 30 days.

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South Korean car giant Hyundai's datacentre in Guizhou, China will start operations in June 2017 and will be the hub for its connected cars in the country.

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The telco national security legislation has been introduced to Parliament after consultation with industry that did not achieve much in the way of changes.

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Chorus will be required to maintain congestion-free links for its UBA service, with the regulator saying in its draft decision that the copper network remains important despite the UFB rollout.

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The federal government has appointed Dr Charles Day as the chief executive officer of Innovation and Science Australia.

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The University of South Australia has partnered with the Australian ERP software provider to bring its accounts payable and invoicing procedures into the 'digital world'.

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The IPv4 era is well and truly over as the Internet Architecture Board has said all IPv4 addresses have been allocated.

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But online banking services now back online as Tesco Bank says cyber-attack affected fewer current account holders than initially suspected.

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In a letter sent to employees, LeEco co-founder Jia Yueting acknowledged the company is facing a shortage of cash due to its fast sprawl of businesses in too many directions, while relevant shares also tumbled.

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The company has updated its online refurbished store to include its most successful product, the iPhone, for the first time.

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Steve Ballmer says the Microsoft's mistake was not getting into hardware faster: but that's just one of the reasons the company didn't become a smartphone giant.

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The new Gmail for iOS offers more powerful search, a modern design, and swipe-to-delete.

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Marburg Hospital's Centre for the Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases is using the cognitive computing system to solve some of the most complex medical cases.

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Android Nougat 7.0 rollout for LG's G5 marks the first update to a non-Google Marshmallow phone.

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National Crime Agency and Information Commissioner's office investigating breach which has led to Tesco Bank freezing all online transactions.

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Taking a close look at the Google Home smart speaker, iFixit reveals some familiar innards.

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The decision to shutter streaming service Presto has cost $21 million for Foxtel and $11 million for Foxtel's part owner News Corp this quarter.

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The Australian government is hoping to bolster the appeal of a career in cybersecurity by launching Academic Centres of Cyber Security Excellence.

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Google has switched on its cloud platform in Tokyo, with plans to bring it to Singapore and Sydney next year.

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Tasmania now allows ridesharing services like those offered by California's Uber, becoming the last Australian state or territory to comment on its ride-booking stance.

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China's top legislative body this week passed a cybersecurity law that elevates the formally 'low-level regulations' applied across the nation in areas such as security, online speech, and citizen rights.

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South Korean authorities have raided Samsung Electronics' office in Seoul as part of a probe into the political scandal around President Park Geun-hye.

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NBN's negative AU$336 million EBITDA from Q1 last year grew by half again to negative AU$501 million, while its quarterly revenue more than doubled, from AU$73 million to AU$181 million.

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Following a stern warning from the information commissioner's office, Facebook has agreed to halt its collection of WhatsApp user data in the UK.

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Webjet and Microsoft have teamed up to build a blockchain proof-of-concept that it said has the potential to create a new industry standard.

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Chase Larson, Sales Operation Manager for Six Pack Shortcuts, talks about the importance of a good phone system and live conversations, even in the age of social media.

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The Android Auto app is receiving an update that eliminates the need for a dedicated screen.

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Apple's sleeker laptops do not show that Apple has lost its way. They embody the Apple way.

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Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is back online after a computer virus attack last week.

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Apple discounts adaptors after anger over the design of the new MacBook Pro.

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Researchers at MIT rigged up a scooter with a basic self-driving car kit to get mobility-impaired people across the last leg from vehicle to home or the mall.

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Getting big data right is about much more than technology: these tips could help you set the right path.

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The Lookout researchers who discovered the Trident vulnerability discuss how it was able to remain undetected.

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Google teams up with Sprint to introduce a refreshed version of SMS that should be rolling out with other carriers in coming months.

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"Online criminal activity" blamed for fraudulent activity involving theft from customer accounts.

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Now that Oracle has closed the NetSuite purchase it's next big move will be keeping, courting and upselling small and midmarket companies.

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No changes will be made to Australia's intellectual property laws, and the US government has not raised any concerns about ISP liability for copyright infringement in Australia, the government has said.

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Blizzard and DeepMind have created an open test environment within the StarCraft II game for artificial intelligence researchers to use worldwide.

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Westpac has reported AU$7.4 billion in net profit after tax amid a 12-month focus on transforming its business into a digital one.

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ANZ bank has now also lost its chief information officer, its latest technology executive departure.

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After losing confidence and its way, the PC is in search of a new identity. That's a good thing.

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