The living room desktops were designed in response to the perception Microsoft was ignoring gamers with Windows 8, but the changes to Windows 10 may have lessened the need for Valve's SteamOS.

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Only suckers pay sticker price for a new Windows PC or Mac. If you're patient and willing to do some research, you can save hundreds of dollars and get a more powerful configuration than you ever dreamed possible. Here's how.

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7 ways to open up the digital and data transformation process and get IT and businesspeople talking about what's really important.

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The holidays are but a few short weeks away and I'm once again being inundated by questions relating to a dilemma people are facing - between Apple's iPad or Amazon's Fire tablet range, which is the best?

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After making the transition to AWS almost three years ago, Cochlear is excited about making the most of its data to help its patients.

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It's time to patch your Linux servers and PCs again.

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Millions of consumers have been buying wearables designed to collect biometric health signals but doctors say it will be years before they provide real medical benefits.

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Anyone can exploit the flaw after the exploit code was published.

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The manufacturer is the best sales performer across all segments in the third quarter

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Starbucks' technology chief plans to build on previous digital successes and add new technologies that boost personal engagements digitally and anticipate customer behaviors.

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If you're one of the last holdouts insisting on keeping Samsung's Note 7 phone, your time is running out.

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Law enforcement has trained special dogs to find hidden thumb drives and cell phones that human investigators routinely miss, and it's foiling predators, terrorists, and other criminals.

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Amazon is driving the voice revolution forward to bring new devices featuring voice activated Amazon Alexa

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One compelling reason to buy a Moto X was the confidence in knowing that Android upgrades would be timely while the user experience was nearly stock. Lenovo killed that strategy, but it looks like things are improving with the Moto Z.

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Microsoft's digital assistant is now available for Android users in the UK, iPhone owners will have to hold on a little longer.

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Most of these should work on all iPhones or iPads that support iOS 10; but note that some are only available on newer devices.

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In 2007 I predicted that RAID 5 would cease to work to prevent data loss. And yet, as 2017 dawns, many people are using RAID 5 successfully. No, I wasn't wrong. Here's what changed - and how to save your data when a RAID 5 drive dies.

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Emails pretend to be queries from customers, but contain information stealing malware.

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The Internet of Things will open doors for SAP with new and existing customers, but not without the help of some nontraditional partners.

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Samsung's year-end annual reshuffle of executives is being delayed, raising speculation that the scale of reorganization this year may be its highest in years due to the Note 7 debacle, the Harman deal, and the political fallout from the presidential scandal.

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The multinationals collectively coughed up billions to the Australian Taxation Office for the 2014-15 financial year.

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A 'cyber game' held in Canberra suggests that commercial and diplomatic solutions would be more effective long-term than chasing the hackers.

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The Australian medical device company has launched its new 3D printing facility at CSIRO's Victorian site to combat sleep apnoea.

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Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service cloud will now be supported on the Google Cloud Platform

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Thaddeus Arroyo, head of AT&T Mexico, will move into de la Vega's spot as the head of international and business operations.

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The market for electronic-sniffing dogs is small, and clients are widespread. Todd Jordan, owner of Jordan Detection K9 talks about building his business' online presence to reach potential customers.

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The US beverage chain has become the first retail brand to use the digital gift-sharing service by Tencent's WeChat.

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New data says the tech giant complied with over three-quarters of all US requests.

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Dubbed BlackBerry Secure, the platform folds together BlackBerry's acquisitions of Good Technology, WatchDox, AtHoc and Encription into a comprehensive software suite.

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Pebble is the the latest in a line of category pioneers that struggled to gain traction after optimizing a device for early adopters.

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Starting today, developers can use Actions on Google, the developer platform for the Google Assistant, to build services for Google's voice-activated speaker.

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Microsoft's coming 'Premium Assurance' for Software Assurance customers for Windows Server and SQL Server will offer 16, instead of 10, years of support.

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Forrester: AI will disrupt how developers build applications and the nature of the applications they build.

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New research report highlights three imperatives for organizations seeking to drive innovation with cloud BI and analytics.

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Nintendo's most iconic character is nearing his debut on mobile devices, pushing the company into new territory and new revenue streams.

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Preventing Distributed Denial of Service attacks is both a technical and business issue.

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The company issued a $10,000 reward to the researcher for privately reporting the flaw.

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Next year sees Microsoft bring a natively compiled version of Windows 10, complete with an x86 emulation layer, to Qualcomm's ARM processors. Can this reinvigorate the PC industry?

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Drivers now have to use digital alternatives for paper pay and display permits

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The Microsoft and LinkedIn deal officially has closed. Now the integration of the two companies products and services begins. Here's what's up first.

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Dell Technologies third quarter results include 52 days of EMC and VMware results.

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With devices more compelling than Apple's, a new partnership with Linux, and a very strong cloud strategy, Microsoft is back, and better than ever.

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If you need screen real estate, computing horsepower and a degree of upgradability, an AIO desktop can be a good choice. We examine contenders from the top five PC vendors.

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Nine of out ten hospital trusts say they still have PCs running the 15-year-old software.

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Will the Trump and Foxconn teams be speaking soon?

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Spire CEO Jonathan Palley explains how a rock-like gadget can give you greater piece of mind.

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Samsung's next flagship, tipped for a March 2017, will feature a mighty all-screen front, thanks to new OLED technology.

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Moving to the cloud shouldn't be lift and shift. FINRA's experience shows the best results come when you rethink your data, storage, and compute architecture for elastic environments, and you rethink your people and processes to embrace DevOps. For FINRA, the results translated to a tidy savings of $1 million annually.

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The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is better than the Apple Watch in most areas and will soon even work with an iPhone to compete against the Apple Watch. However, you can't ask it for your favorite team score or easily control it with your voice while some advertised apps are still missing a month after release. It is a complete package in an extremely high quality piece of hardware and it may be the best smartwatch ever over time.

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Italian fintech firm Euklid plans to go beyond bitcoin machine learning to offer the services of a traditional bank, but almost entirely run by AI.

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Artificial intelligence is quickly knocking down the dominoes of complex tasks that computers have long struggled with.

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The new color variation of the Galaxy S7 Edge will be exclusive to 128GB versions of the phone and available December 9 in select markets, including South Korea.

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Windows 10's File History feature keeps regular copies of files so you can roll back to a previous version of a file or restore an entire system. The feature is designed to use an external drive, but you can also specify a network location. Here's how.

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Over 80 different Sony IP camera models are impacted by the security vulnerability.

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The gamification lures hackers into the fold with exploit tools and fraud software up for grabs.

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Microsoft will bring a natively compiled version of Windows 10 to Qualcomm's ARM processors next year, plus an x86 emulation layer, designed to run on a new class of Windows 10 mobile PCs.

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Microsoft is readying its Windows PC and device-maker partners to build new extended reality devices and the PCs to which they'll be tethered.

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A new study by Accenture has said that only a small percentage of technologies move beyond the pilot phase to full implementation within government.

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The shape of a fish, for instance, can be used to reflect different characteristics of an entity and support data visualisation.

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Windows 10 Creators Update test build 14986 adds more Cortana voice-control capabilities, as well as support on the back end for a coming Windows 10 differential-update capability.

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The Reserve Bank of Australia has published a consultation paper in response to being urged by industry players to determine a standard for the provision of dual-network debit cards and mobile wallets.

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The New Zealand carrier will begin Wi-Fi fleetwide rollout in the second half of next year with trans-Tasman flights.

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With the virtual reality market poised to take off, several tech companies are creating a nonprofit to foster the industry and develop best practices.

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AWS' Australia and New Zealand managing director peddles Qantas as one of the cloud giant's most innovative customers in the region.

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Google Docs and Drive were among the earliest Slack integrations and remain among the most popular, Slack says.

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Cybersecurity, H-1Bs and Net Neutrality and taxes on Internet sales are just a few of the hot-button issues for Trump and tech bigwigs to discuss as soon as possible.

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Internet of Things-focused Bluetooth 5 will be found in products within two to six months, Bluetooth SIG announced.

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Microsoft is combining some of its previously separate large-format conferences for 2017, and is pushing back its Build developers confab to May next year.

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One of the hacktivists who used distributed denial-of-service attacks to target major websites is still a teenager.

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T-Mobile hinted last year that its one number, multiple device solution would make AT&T NumberSync look small. After testing out T-Mobile DIGITS, I'm a believer.

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The disappearing headphone jack seems to have had little impact on US iPhone sales says research company.

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Is the cloud about to shed its reputation for decreasing enterprise security - and will instead enhance it?

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Those of us who have been waiting for the release of the Pebble Core and Pebble Time 2 products we backed on Kickstarter will instead be getting full refunds as Pebble halts all hardware production following the acquisition by Fitbit.

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Dell EMC's VxRack system has moved to PowerEdge servers in a move designed to highlight the coordination between Dell Technologies portfolio companies.

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Fitbit has a growing enterprise unit that ​revolves around corporate wellness programs. And Pebble's developers will come in handy to create custom third party apps for those enterprise efforts.

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Apple reassures users that the iPhone is safe despite a handful of reports of fires in China.

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Project could allow larger and more complex deep learning workloads on supercomputers.

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A Norwegian virtual fencing system uses a controversial combination of technologies to keep livestock from straying.

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Workers spend a quarter of their day dealing with on email, making it the second most time consuming activity in their jobs. A new app aims to streamline our inboxes.

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The USPS fleet in the field could be enabled with sensors that could serve as the eyes and ears of smart cities to improve services. But hurdles abound.

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Latvian company OnlyOffice wants to create the Swiss watch of office suites and convince people there are valid choices beyond the big brands.

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Consumers are initially drawn to shiny new wearable devices, but a good portion abandon them after they get bored of them, a study by Gartner has found.

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The state's Office of the Auditor General has made six recommendations to prevent the threat of malware after investigating six West Australian government agencies.

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Australian telco TPG will look to boost its on-net business and get into mobile in both Australia and Singapore to make up for margin pressure felt as its ADSL business comes to an end.

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Over 97 percent of shareholders in BigAir voted for the company's purchase by fibre infrastructure company Superloop.

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AI company NoHold has beta released a platform that allows SMBs and individuals to create intelligent assistants out of any document.

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The ASX-listed toll road business has leveraged AWS to build a platform ready for the future of transport.

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Regulation of data sovereignty has been driven by the EU - but what happens after Brexit?

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Microsoft won't be adding the previously announced Enterprise Advantage option to its licensing line-up, after all, officials are acknowledging.

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The meeting is set to take place at Trump Tower on December 14. It's not clear which companies will be in attendance.

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It's not just about search: Google wants to be the hub to your life, showing current topics and upcoming events.

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The Supreme Court unanimously decided Apple is not entitled to profits from Samsung's Galaxy phone line, but is entitled to the value of the copied elements.

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A series of executives highlighted how smart city projects are enabled by data, but aggregating it isn't easy. Here's a look at the core smart city project themes.

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With mobile offline folders, users can tag an entire folder to have its contents synced automatically to their phone or tablet.

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Microsoft plans to add more security and manageability features to Windows 10 Creators Update before its debut in Spring 2017. Here's what's coming.

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The new service automatically integrates with third party, open source, and IBM tools, allowing developers to quickly build and access preconfigured toolchains.

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Alphabet's Google said the milestone makes it the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.

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Android 7.1.1 added two features to the Google Pixel lineup: lift-to-wake and tap-to-wake.

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Microsoft expects its deal to acquired LinkedIn to close 'in the coming days,' now that EU regulators have given the pending acquisition their approval.

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Light weight technology is intended to be carried in by aircraft before deploying food, water and medicine.

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​Dr. Reginald Brothers said the Department of Homeland Security is making it easier for technology companies to work with the agency to leverage IoT more.

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The deal will help GoDaddy expand its portfolio with a broader range of cloud-based for small businesses, as well as advance the company's push into the European market.

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Low cost of entry of schemes on the dark web mean any wannabe hacker can get their hands on the resources needed to phish specific targets.

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Moore's Law may be slowing down, but that isn't stopping chipmakers from announcing new technology at a record pace.

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The all-cash deal consists of 29 data center buildings across 15 metro areas, as well as an acquired portfolio of around 900 customers and roughly 250 Verizon employees.

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It's all about the applications: the battle for enterprise infrastructure dominance is over

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Following an IDC report that threw shade on Apple Watch sales, CEO Tim Cook said in an email to Reuters the current quarter is set to be the best for the wearable.

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The bet is that BMC can win over both developers and business analysts with a no-code and low-code approach to enterprise apps.

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The Human Brain Project is an ambitious initiative that seeks to understand how the brain works by simulating it with technology. Could it help us understand the nature of our own consciouness?

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The problem of iPhone's randomly shutting down seems to be more widespread than Apple had first thought.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is offering a series of core services designed to offer natural language question answering.

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Familiarity is the key, says the CIO of one of the early adopters of Facebook's social network for employees.

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There's a limit to just how thin you can make things. A teardown suggests that Samsung took things too far.

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Everyone from porn providers to the US Army utilizes the platform -- but what are the most lucrative programs that have been hosted this year?

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IBM launches its Watson for Cyber Security beta program to test how cognitive computing can boost cybersecurity.

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Despite its previously tough stance against encryption backdoors, the Netherlands has now given the green light for its secret services and police to exploit zero-day software vulnerabilities.

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The bug is one of almost a dozen of critical vulnerabilities included in the last security patch of the year.

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Consumers and businesses alike will be able to take advantage of the new system to build custom drones.

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Researchers can earn up to $20,000 for disclosing critical security flaws.

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The Australian telecommunications universal service obligation is past its use by date and should be phased out, a Productivity Commission draft report has recommended.

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The state government department is seeking an industry partner to help it trial on-demand public transport services.

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Samsung Electronics vice chairman and de facto boss of the conglomerate has apologized for its involvement in the country's biggest political scandal, but has denied any direct wrongdoing.

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Australian technology entrepreneurs and government officials weigh in on the Productivity Commission's Data Availability and Use draft report.

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Israeli audio-based social media company HearMeOut has joined a wave of tech companies in the country to choose the ASX as its source of capital.

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The business arm of the telco has signed with Suretek through to the end of 2020.

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The Vocus cable connecting Perth and Singapore will now be completed by August 2018 at a revised cost of $170 million.

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The tech giants have agreed to create a shared database of hashes for violent terrorist imagery, or terrorist recruitment videos and images.

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The Australian government has allocated AU$3.9 million of its AU$8 million Women in STEM funding to 24 female-focused organisations.

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Red Hat's Java Enterprise Edition middleware stack is now available on the company's Plaform-as-a-Service cloud.

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Amazon Go is going to rattle the retailing landscape with its checkout free technologies. But the fallout extends well beyond IT to business and society. Welcome to automation.

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Building on their partnership in other regions, Deloitte and IPsoft have agreed to further develop IPsoft's cognitive agent Amelia for the Australian market.

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AT&T has secured its first business customer to test 5G, capable of 4k video streaming speeds of 14 gigabits per second.

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In today's ever changing and smarter world consumers want to be able to influence the products they consistently buy with their ideas. Taking the fashion industry as an example: new trends are only one factor that determine the newest collections. Customer satisfaction has always been and will always be a crucial factor for businesses to stay competitive in their respective markets.

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The cloud accounting firm has partnered with Stripe to allow users to pay an invoice using Apple Pay.

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Both the Elon Musk-backed group and Alphabet's AI division are opening up their training environments with the aim of getting closer to developing general intelligence.

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There are some fantastic options in the $400 range this year, with three devices making their way onto Matthew Miller's top 10 list.

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The minor update patches security flaws and adds expanded support for GIFs through Android's keyboard.

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Fitness bands, which are part of IDC's "basic wearables" category, were the top-selling wearable devices in Q3 and accounted for 85 percent of the market.

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

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2,800 patient operations were cancelled in total, hospital confirms -- but no word on how Globe2 ransomware infection occurred.

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The video sharing site remains one of the most visited websites on the internet.

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Uber AI Labs joins Uber's Advanced Technologies Center (ATC) in Pittsburgh, which houses a team of engineers and researchers working to further Uber's self-driving car project.

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Predictive analytics and machine learning are seen as the pair of tools to save the day for most organizations currently. We try to de-mystify both, taking a look at what they are, how they work, and what they are good for.

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Microsoft has fielded a preview of another AI chatbot, Zo.ai, but so far is limiting the topics it is able to address.

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Microsoft is readying a new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing app for SMBs as part of its Dynamics 365 service. Here's a list of what's likely inside that app coming in the Spring of 2017.

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With just a few taps, friends and family can locate you if they are worried -- or you can share your location on demand.

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Amazon Go is a new brick-and-mortar concept store that replaces cashiers and checkout lines with computer vision and artificial intelligence.

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Deloitte survey finds CIOs are not satisfied with merely keeping things running smoothly -- they need to know if it's delivering what end customers actually want.

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Market segment reaches a new low due to changes in consumer demand, says IDC

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Here's a simple trick that will make it much easier to for you to find and use features on your iPhone or iPad.

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The future of secure, modern Windows apps needs to go beyond Surface.

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When Apple's new MacBook Pros were announced in October, David Gewirtz's long wait was rewarded with a slightly queasy feeling, because the most obviously powerful model was a 15-inch machine with dual GPU.

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All-day battery life? Only if your workday is about 3 hours long, claim some owners of Apple's new MacBook Pro.

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Two big studies show where the Middle East and North African regions are making progress with tech, and where they're still falling short.

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The world's first business computer was developed by the Lyons' tea-shop company, based on the University of Cambridge's EDSAC. A plaque has now been installed in Hammersmith, west London, where LEO started running in 1951.

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Department of Communications told NBN a draft article by its chair presented 'real risks to the company' prior to NBN's decision to push ahead with its publication.

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Following the filing of a class action lawsuit by ex-Galaxy Note 7 users, Samsung has replied that there will be no more compensation for them besides what was offered following the recall.

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Flamingo, an ASX-listed artificial intelligence company that develops conversational commerce agents for financial organisations, will be ramping up its expansion efforts with a newfound focus on the Asia-Pacific market, as well as new industry verticals such as healthcare.

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The reported acquisition could be worth up to $885 million.

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The predicted explosion of voice-enabled apps in 2017 will increase the attack service of mobile devices and the systems they control, and create brand new privacy risks.

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Fraudulent or erroneous overpayments are on the department's radar, with its new compliance system pinned to recoup AU$4 billion in welfare debt.

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Australia's largest telco has started to replace the gaps in its senior leadership team with the appointment of Robyn Denholm as its new chief operations officer.

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Here are some holiday present suggestions for the open-source or Linux fan on your gift list.

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The Australian government has appointed the Atlassian director as CEO of its new Cyber Security Growth Centre.

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Former Telstra CEO David Thodey has said the telco created its startup accelerator to improve company culture, rather than finding the next world-beating startup.

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A new joint public-private sector fund has been launched by the Australian government and CSIRO to commercialise early-stage innovations from startups, SMEs, universities, research bodies, and CSIRO.

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Thoughtless use of artificial intelligence could be much more dangerous than the super-intelligent digital villains of science-fiction.

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LG Electronics had developed a wideband-based full duplex radio technology for use in fifth-generation networks.

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In a new face-to-face interview, Edward Snowden said the US justice department has a "two-tiered system of justice" and used Gen. Petraeus as an example.

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Apple has never publicly confirmed Project Titan. However, a new letter from Apple to US regulators calls for fairness to new players in the self-driving car industry.

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