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16 June, 2016
My Big Idea is an ambitious program to let ordinary Australians shape the nation they want, by suggesting and voting on ideas tackling specific challenges facing the nation — such as housing affordability, caring for the elderly and disadvantaged, job opportunities and a lack of honesty and accountability. The best ideas will be developed by the program’s prestigious university and corporate partners, to be made real.
Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference brings together app developers from all walks of life, and the youngest to make the trip to San Francisco this year was Anvitha Vijay, a grade four student from Mount View Primary School in Melbourne. Anvitha, now nine, began coding at the age of seven. She wanted to make an app that would help her younger sister – then two – to identify animals. Two years later Smartkins Animals, an educational app aimed at kids aged five and under, made it into Apple's App Store. The iOS app was good enough to win her one of 350 Apple scholarships for young coders to attend WWDC. She was one of eight in Australia.
Is the keyboard dying? While it’s foolhardy to predict its demise, it’s safe to say our QWERTY friend has a more limited tenure. Once humankind is confident that voice recognition is accurate and a computer does exactly what you ask it, there’s no going back to using a keyboard 24/7. Not only will Apple’s personal assistant, Siri, come to the Mac but the company’s 13 million developers also will be able integrate Siri into their apps for iPhone and iPad, Apple has said at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week.
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