Meet SAM, or rather, SAM100 – short for Semi-Automated Mason. It’s a robot and it can lay between 800 to 1200 bricks a day – at a slower rate than a human brickie perhaps, but continuously, without stopping for things like lunch.

https://www.domain.com.au/news/the-future-of-construction-bricklaying-robot-sam100s-wall-building-prowess-20170317-gv0e42/

With the Internet of Things, we’re building a world-size robot. How are we going to control it?

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/the-internet-of-things-dangerous-future-bruce-schneier.html

China's police are now shooting down drones with radio-jamming rifles

http://mashable.com/2017/03/16/drone-rifles-china-police/#3UUmshffakq8

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017. 1 JavaScript 2 Java 3 Python 4 PHP 5 C# 5 C++ 7 CSS 7 Ruby 9 C 10 Objective-C 11 Scala 11 Shell 11 Swift 14 R 15 Go 15 Perl 17 TypeScript 18 PowerShell 19 Haskell 20 Clojure 20 CoffeeScript 20 Lua 20 Matlab

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/03/17/language-rankings-1-17/

Founder of Silicon Valley software company Happy Co stakes his future on Adelaide, looks to hire up to 100 staff in next two to three years

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/jobs/founder-of-silicon-valley-software-company-happy-co-stakes-his-future-on-adelaide-looks-to-hire-up-to-100-staff-in-next-two-to-three-years/news-story/8a8f3b7d73572e831d0d994b15c5560f