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07 May, 2018

How To Create Your Own Cryptocurrency

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/how-to-create-your-own-cryptocurrency/

This ‘Demonically Clever’ Backdoor Hides In a Tiny Slice of a Computer Chip

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hides-inside-computer-chip/

Blockchain benefits: using cryptocurrencies for social good. PowerLedger is an Australian company that aims to use blockchain technology to create a peer-to-peer platform where individuals can trade, buy, and sell renewable energy. Another Australian company, Horizon State, has developed a way to use the blockchain to record a vote. Ethically Sourced Tuna Bubba Cook is the manager of a WWF project, Blockchain Supply Chain Traceability Project, that aims to curb illegal fishing and human rights abuses in the tuna industry.

http://sciencemeetsbusiness.com.au/blockchain-benefits-social-good/?mc_cid=73014dd7e7&mc_eid=414e09e1c9

The Gonski plan: an online tool to stop children falling through the cracks

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-gonski-plan-an-online-tool-to-stop-children-falling-through-the-cracks-20180504-p4zdbg.html

School teachers and principals are "drowning in paperwork", costing them critical time for preparing classes and threatening their core job of educating children, research has found. A University of Sydney study of more than 18,000 public school teachers and principals across NSW found 97.3 per cent reported an increase in administration duties over the past five years. More than 95 per cent were spending more time on analysing and reporting data.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/careers/teachers-core-job-swamped-by-paperwork-20180504-p4zdd9.html