A TOP US government spy agency and Carnegie Mellon University want to interest students in a game of computer hacking.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-govt-contest-aims-to-find-young-hackers/story-e6frea7u-1226598790404 http://www.picoctf.com

GAMING fans will soon be able to navigate Nelson Mandela's South African apartheid prison on Robben Island in a new computer game, developers have announced. The game, designed to be an educational tool, will be modelled on life on the island where South Africa's anti-apartheid campaigners were jailed and will be released next year as part of a multimedia project dubbed Mandela 27.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/nelson-mandelas-island-jail-becomes-computer-game/story-e6frgakx-1226597798418

SAMSUNG'S first iPhone-beating smartphone will be replaced with a model that tracks your eyes and fingertips, lets you control it with the wave of a hand, reports on your exercise, and uses eight computing brains for a speed boost. The South Korean company revealed its highly anticipated Galaxy S IV in one of the world's biggest phone launches this morning in New York

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/samsung-unveils-its-galaxy-s-iii-smartphone-in-bid-to-topple-apple/story-fn7bfu22-1226597801194 A more detailed look: http://www.redmondpie.com/galaxy-s4-announced-specs-price-release-date-accessories-everything-you-need-to-know/

Google's indoor maps, currently only available on Google Maps for Android, enable users to delve virtually into places such as shopping centres, train stations and airports – predominantly in NSW and Victoria – to give users access to their floor plans.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/city-at-your-fingertips-with-a-couple-of-hitches-20130314-2g2pt.html

In a speech on Thursday morning at an Australian Council of Trade Unions event, the Prime Minister accused IT firms of rorting the scheme at the expense of Australian workers. An angry Atlassian co-founder Mike-Cannon-Brookes described Ms Gillard's comments as ridiculous and said his firm would love to hire more Australians but "we don't have the scale or scope of talent here". Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, who has been campaigning for better IT education in Australia for some time, described the Prime Minister's comments as "absolutely outrageous" and "desperate vote-mongering". "There wouldn't be an IT industry in Australia if it wasn't for the fact that we could draw from overseas labour," he said, adding that Freelancer was always looking for software engineers but received only one local applicant a day on average.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/gillard-accused-of-desperate-votemongering-20130314-2g2pa.html Employers want a 'cheapie, just arrived off the boat', Aussie IT workers told Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/employers-want-a-cheapie-just-arrived-off-the-boat-aussie-it-workers-told-20130315-2g515.html#ixzz2NgpqMN47 http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/employers-want-a-cheapie-just-arrived-off-the-boat-aussie-it-workers-told-20130315-2g515.html

A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing."

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/031313-turing-award-267635.html

Security researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have shown that they can extract photos, surfing history, and contact lists from Android smartphones, even if the phone is locked and the disk is encrypted. It can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes for RAM to lose its data. One of the variables that causes this variance is temperature; by cooling RAM down, it preserves data for longer.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/150536-how-to-bypass-an-android-smartphones-encryption-and-security-put-it-in-the-freezer

Scientists used iPhone to diagnose intestinal worms

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/scientists-used-iphone-to-diagnose-intestinal-worms/story-e6frgakx-1226596072026

Tech giants sue Australian radio network over alleged software piracy

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/tech-giants-sue-australian-radio-network-over-alleged-software-piracy-20130313-2fzbf.html

Samsung Galaxy S4: What to expect from the most anticipated smartphone of 2013

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/149202-samsung-galaxy-s4-what-to-expect-from-the-most-anticipated-smartphone-of-2013

Four months in: Windows 8 adoption is almost at a standstill. Windows XP & 7 still account for about 80% of total market share

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/149762-four-months-in-windows-8-adoption-is-almost-at-a-standstill

Here’s An Early iPhone Prototype From 2005, Features A 5×7 Inch Display, Ethernet And Serial Ports

http://www.redmondpie.com/heres-an-early-iphone-prototype-from-2005-features-a-5x7-inch-display-ethernet-and-serial-ports-images/

Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public "like" updates, according to a study of online privacy. The research into 58,000 Facebook users in the US found that sensitive personal characteristics about people can be accurately inferred from information in the public domain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/11/facebook-users-reveal-intimate-secrets

Online design community 99designs has launched a competition asking people to design an alternative logo for SA. The competition launched last Thursday, the day after Premier Jay Weatherill officially unveiled SA's much-anticipated new brand at a public event at Elder Park to a torrent of criticism on social media and a mixed response offline

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/dont-like-sas-new-logo-you-do-better/story-e6frea83-1226594742662 http://99designs.com.au/logo-design/contests/community-contest-design-logo-south-australia-201833?entriespage=4#contest-header

Using iPhone/iPads with children with disability or simply want parental controls over specific apps? the latest iOS 6 has some helpful features

http://www.apple.com/au/ios/whats-new/#accessibility http://www.cultofmac.com/195524/use-guided-access-to-safely-hand-an-iphone-to-your-kids-ios-tips/

Late last year, Dr Brand developed the MinecraftUni project, a virtual campus where students had to construct the buildings of Bond in the Minecraft game. He ran an entire class through the globally successful computer game Minecraft.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/government/mining-games-to-hone-a-masterclass-in-construction/story-fn4htb9o-1226594996114

"The World in 2030" by Dr. Michio Kaku (Youtube Vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY

Kinect Fusion, which was presented at SIGGRAPH in 2011 and was announced as a future update to the Kinect for Windows SDK in November last year, quickly creates highly detailed 3D models by taking depth data captured by the Kinect for Windows sensor and averaging the readings of sequences of hundred or thousands of frames. This allows the system to create a more detailed model than would be possible with a single reading.

http://www.gizmag.com/kinect-fusion-3d-modeling/26569/

Iranian authorities have blocked the use of most "virtual private networks", a tool that many Iranians use to get around an extensive government internet filter

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/iran-blocks-use-of-tool-to-get-around-internet-filter-20130311-2fuzk.html

Researchers at Victoria University are working on a new computer program they hope will save patients' lives by predicting their vital signs during surgery. Professor Zhang said the program might eventually be used in other fields, including sport. The prediction technique could use physiological data from athletes to prevent injuries.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/a-few-seconds-can-save-patients-lives-20130310-2ftz7.html