New Mercedes-Benz GL SUV with lots of IT technologies

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133068-mercedes-benz-gl-suv-hands-on-cutting-edge-technology-for-a-price

Apple Pulls Bitdefender's 'Clueful' Privacy App From The App Store without explanation

https://www.securityweek.com/apple-yanks-privacy-app-app-store

Victorian high schools will trial the country's first Year 12 computer science subject next year, in a bid to reverse a long-term decline in enrolments in hardcore computer science and engineering courses in Australian universities

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/hich-schools-to-trial-uni-computer-science-in-y12-20120719-22c99.html

Introduction to basic computer / IT Skills

http://www.forwardit.sa.gov.au/

A technique called super-resolution, which it’s possible to take a blurry or low-resolution image, and gain image quality by enlarging it

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132950-csi-style-super-resolution-image-enlargment-yeeaaaah

Disney’s Paperman animated short is finished and by all accounts it’s phenomenal. Employing a technique called final line advection, artists were able to add a level of grace and expressiveness never before seen in an animated film

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/06/29/disneys-paperman-animated-short-fuses-cg-and-hand-drawn-techniques/

Artisan is a set of powerful organic modeling tools. It builds upon the subdivision tools in Dale’s previous plugin, Subdivide and Smooth, and adds new tools to SketchUp that provide unprecedented control over complex high-poly forms

http://artisan4sketchup.com/

How to DIY furnitures

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/another-geekdad-builds-a-cabin-bed/

Could The World’s Fastest Shoe Really Have Come From A Printer?

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670231/could-the-world-s-fastest-shoe-really-have-come-from-a-printer

THE peer-to-peer online file sharing model that has been the scourge of copyright owners may underpin the legitimate distribution of content on the NBN in future.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/the-nbn-may-adopt-a-peer-to-peer-model-for-content-distribution/story-fn4iyzsr-1226429609785

The iPad Game That Took 9 Years (And an Epic Disney Fail) to Finish

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/07/the-act-ios-game/

As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, has announced that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture. In acouple of months, Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally

https://www.coursera.org/

How can schools get kids engaged in IT?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/data-crunch-how-can-schools-get-kids-engaged-in-it/story-e6frgcko-1226423558673

Carat Tells You Which Apps Suck Up Your Battery Power

http://lifehacker.com/5918671/carat-tells-your-which-apps-suck-up-your-battery-power

The $99 Ouya game console: Exciting, innovative — and probably doomed

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/132751-the-99-ouya-console-exciting-innovative-and-probably-doomed

Apple is investigating fraudulent activity following reports of a Russian hacker who found and published a way to make illegal in-app purchases

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/apple-investigating-inapp-purchase-fraud-20120716-224uu.html