Students play 'Skyrim' for class (part of a growing number of college instructors who are incorporating games into university-level course work. For example, at Wabash College in Indiana, "Portal" was made required "reading" for all students. Meanwhile, World of Warcraft has been used at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania as part of the intelligence studies program. And at the University of Texas at Brownsville, one instructor has used PlayStation 3 video games to teach physics)

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/fight-giants-slay-dragons-college-students-play-skyrim-class-1C6690402

Android Software version number no guarantee of security

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/software-version-number-no-guarantee-of-security-20121026-289m4.html

Google Takes Street View Tech Into the Grand Canyon (using Samsung Galaxy Nexus as controllers)

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/google-trekker-backpack-maps-the-grand-canyon/

Huawei has offered to give Australia unrestricted access to its software source code and equipment, as it looks to ease fears that it is a security threat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20053511

A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times — without increasing transmission power, adding more base stations, or using more wireless spectrum.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/138424-increasing-wireless-network-speed-by-1000-by-replacing-packets-with-algebra

Last of South Australia's large internet service providers Adam Internet 'sold to Telstra for $50m'

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/sa-business-journal/adam-internet-sold-to-telstra-for-60m/story-e6fredel-1226501897378

The Differences Between Windows 8 and Windows RT Explained (Comparison Table)

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/windows8-windows-rt-explainer/

The Physics of Baseball and 5000 frames/sec camera

http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob/HighSpeedClips.html

Build Your Own Laser Cutter (almost James Bond style)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1427848145/build-your-own-laser-cutter

Microsoft urges corporate users to migrate from Windows XP to Win 7 or 8 ASAP due to end of support on April 8, 2014

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/business/archive/2012/10/19/identifying-your-unique-windows-8-adoption-path.aspx

Why admins should know how to code You don't need to be a programmer, but you'll solve harder problems faster if you can write your own code (develop elegant solutions to difficult problems)

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-admins-should-know-how-code-205301

Microsoft has quietly instituted a policy giving it broad leeway over how it gathers and uses personal information from consumers of its free, web-based products like email, search and instant messaging

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/microsoft-is-watching-you-20121022-280pe.html

SACE students are not being prepared to study maths and science at university, academics say. They say reducing the value of Year 12 exams from 50 per cent to 30 per cent left students ill-prepared and made ranking them for university entry more difficult.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/high-school-maths-and-sciences-exams-dont-prepare-students-for-university/story-e6frea83-1226499619497

5 things that could sink Windows 8

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/5-things-could-sink-windows-8-1C6579394