Google's 'Your Timeline' maps feature tracks all your past locations

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/googles-your-timeline-maps-feature-tracks-all-your-past-locations-20150723-giijlo?skin=smart-phone

Apple, Samsung and others are reportedly close to agreeing on a common architecture standard for an electronic SIM card, which would do away with the physical pieces of plastic users currently put in their phones and tablets in order to authorise mobile service.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/iphone-7-could-be-first-to-ditch-physical-sim-card-report-says-20150720-gig0a8.html.touch.touch.touch.touch.touch.touch.touch.html

A fully -automated machine is being developed by a Perth company that could erect the brick frame of a house in merely two days. "Hadrian" the robot can work 24 hours a day, every day of the year, compared with the lengthy process of building a home with human capabilities, which could take weeks.

http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/worldfirst-robot-brickie-hadrian-can-build-a-house-in-two-days-20150714-giaw96.html?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=newsFFX

Linden Park Primary students win competition to design a virtual national park using Minecraft video game

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/linden-park-primary-students-win-competition-to-design-a-virtual-national-park-using-minecraft-video-game/story-fni6uo1m-1227442880463

Could you tell if a story was written by a robot? Students at Dartmouth to discover if authors and musicians will be replaced by machines Judges won't know if songs played are computer-generated or by humans $5,000 in prize money up for grabs if students manage to fool experts Variation on the Turing Test, which honours British scientist Alan Turing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3150020/Dartmouth-contests-showcase-computer-generated-creativity.html

The magic behind How Old Do I Look Machine Learning

http://how-old.net/themagic

The first on-road trials of driverless cars in the Southern Hemisphere will take place in Adelaide's southern suburbs in November. Volvo will conduct the testing in conjunction with Flinders University, Carnegie Mellon University, the RAA and Cohda Wireless and Bosch, which has engineers in Australia developing driverless technology.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-21/driverless-car-trials-held-in-adelaide/6636334

In the future, beautifully shaped sugar treats, small cakes and coffee scrolls, and even small pies might be put together by a printer slavishly following a digital design created using 3-D software.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/personal-technology/d-printable-food-its-the-shape-of-things-to-come/story-e6frgazf-1227443128604

Cartoon-making is coming to the masses, thanks to a range of software. Adobe has you in its sights with its new Character Animator, which has made its debut with the 2015 edition of its Creative Cloud suite. “The ability to animate a character in real time with accurate body and facial movement and lip synch was previously reserved for high-end film companies with very ­expensive tracking equipment,” Adobe Australia-Pacific principal evangelist Paul Burnett tells Life. “Now anyone can simply create a character and quickly build a realistic synched animation on a laptop computer.”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/personal-technology/computer-animation-just-a-laptop-away/story-e6frgazf-1227434046347