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25 January, 2017

It’s not often that civil liberties advocates—along with other advocacy groups like the Sierra Club and Doctors Without Borders—find themselves on the same side of an issue as President Trump. But digital privacy and rights groups roundly criticized the TPP for restricting the freedom of information and lambasted what they say was the lack of transparency in the drafting of the deal. “The TPP would have been a bad deal for digital rights, so we welcome its demise,” says Jeremy Malcolm, senior global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/digital-rights-activists-glad-president-trump-killed-tpp/

Using a joystick and a camera feed, MacLaren guided the arm of the Robotic Retinal Dissection Device, or R2D2 for short, through a tiny incision in the eye, before lifting the wrinkled membrane, no more than a hundredth of a millimeter thick, from the retina, and reversing Beaver’s vision problems.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603289/the-tiny-robots-revolutionizing-eye-surgery/

Atlassian breaks diversity ceiling. Australian tech giant Atlassian says almost 60 per cent of its incoming graduates are women, as it welcomed the new employees at a ‘hack house’ event this week in Sydney.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/atlassian-breaks-diversity-ceiling/news-story/9dfd0ed948c2673d6decbd1447643775

Lawnmower Man, 'first' Virtual Reality film, to be remade - in Virtual Reality When The Lawnmower Man was released in 1992, Virtual Reality was the stuff of science fiction

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/lawnmower-man-first-virtual-reality-film-to-be-remade--in-virtual-reality-20170123-gtwrj1.html