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18 August, 2017
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16 August, 2017
A DRIVERLESS bus will ferry passengers around Tonsley within months, and recharge at a solar garage, in two Adelaide firsts at Flinders University. A $320,000 solar garage will be built at the Tonsley campus, capable of recharging about six electric vehicles at once — including the new autonomous bus. The garage would be available for anyone to recharge their electric vehicles for free, and would also act as an education centre to spread awareness about green transport.
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Education,
ICT Capability,
research,
Robotics,
Sustainability
14 August, 2017
This system is called the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), or colloquially, the “world computer.” Code is run publicly, but users are pseudonymous. It’s like Amazon Web Services, except instead of Amazon as the seller and users as the buyer, users can play either role. No individual controls the system. That makes Ethereum something genuinely new—something unprecedented. Decentralized apps, or DApps, are programs that run on the world computer. “Run,” however, might not be the right word, because Ethereum-the-computer is dreadfully slow
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History,
ICT Capability,
research
Queensland Police are now actively operating the next-generation of crime fighting technology: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). In Queensland alone, the tech has been used to accurately scan number plates over 23 million times in the last 15 months. Fitted to police vehicles across the state, ANPR scanners have the ability to fight crime in ways previously the domain of science fiction.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Privacy
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