Serious concerns have been raised by doctors and security experts about the federal government’s My Health Record system that will create a shared digital medical record for every Australian unless they opt-out in a three-month period starting Monday.

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/breach-inevitable-in-digital-health-records-20180715-p4zrmb.html

Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services

https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-dirty-secret-the-app-developers-sifting-through-your-gmail-1530544442

How LG avoided consumer guarantees, and didn't break the law. Under Australian Consumer Law and irrespective of any manufacturer warranty, consumers are entitled to a repair, replacement or refund if goods or services are considered faulty and it is "reasonable" that the products should still be in a functioning quality considering their typical lifespan. Say you have a one-year manufacturer's warranty on a TV, for instance, the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) still applies after that lapses, and it is still likely you would be entitled to a repair, replacement or refund if: 1) you ask for your case to be looked at under Australian Consumer Law; 2) it is deemed to be a manufacturing fault that caused the television to malfunction, and; 3) the length of time for which it is "reasonable" for the product to be used remains in place.

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-lg-avoided-consumer-guarantees-and-didn-t-break-the-law-20180629-p4zofw.html

schools should move away from “an overemphasis on teaching,” Abbott says, and instead view teachers as imaginative, knowledgeable guides. “Any kid can read a textbook — they don’t need a teacher standing over them telling them to do so,” he points out. “They need teachers to inspire them to think about things in a much bigger way than they’ve done before.” It should be based on the biological system of weaning — i.e., gradually reducing children’s dependence on teachers.

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/34658/to-advance-education-we-must-first-reimagine-society

OpenAI is announcing today (June 25) that its newest AI bots can hold their own as a team of five against human gamers at Dota 2, a multiplayer game popular in e-sports for its complexity and necessity for teamwork. The AI research lab is looking to take the bots to Dota 2 championship matches in August to compete against the pros.

https://qz.com/1311732/openai-built-gaming-bots-that-can-work-as-a-team-with-inhuman-precision/

n late 2017, at the Imperial War Museum in London, developers applied modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to break the “unbreakable” Enigma machine used by the Nazis to encrypt their correspondences in World War II. Using AI processes across 2,000 DigitalOcean servers, engineers at Enigma Pattern accomplished in 13 minutes what took Alan Turing years to do—and at a cost of just $7. I have long been fascinated by the Enigma machine and its impact on World War II. Aside from being a huge history geek, my father-in-law went over to Normandy on D+3 (three days after the Omaha beachhead was established). He served in an advance corps, finding ways for the army to move across the country, and as such, they were the first to come across one of the concentration camps and liberate it. None of that would have been possible without Enigma.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-enigma-code-in-13-minutes/

WHO classifies 'gaming disorder' as mental health condition. there are three major diagnostic features or characteristics of gaming disorder. "One is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery," he said. The second feature is "impaired control of these behaviors," Poznyak said. "Even when the negative consequences occur, this behavior continues or escalates." A diagnosis of gaming disorder, then, means that a "persistent or recurrent" behavior pattern of "sufficient severity" has emerged, according to the ICD. A third feature is that the condition leads to significant distress and impairment in personal, family, social, educational or occupational functioning,

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/18/health/video-game-disorder-who/index.html

BitTorrent, an early mover (and currently the largest player) in decentralised computing architecture to distribute and store data, is being sold for $140 million in cash to Justin Sun and his blockchain media startup Tron, TechCrunch has learned. one shareholder we spoke to says there are two plans. First, it will be used to “legitimise” Tron’s business, which has met with some controversy: it has been accused of plagiarising FileCoin and Ethereum in the development of its technology. And second, as a potential network to help mine coins, using BitTorrent’s P2P architecture and wide network of users.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/18/bittorrent-tron/

Apple Australia fined $9 million for misleading customers in ‘Error 53’ lawsuit by ACCC. The unprecedented action against the multibillion-dollar US company and its Australian arm could also have further ramifications too, after the Court found Australians were legally allowed to get third-party repairs without voiding warranties, and could request brand new replacement devices rather than refurbished models.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/apple-australia-fined-9-million-for-misleading-customers-in-error-53-lawsuit-by-accc/news-story/a3595ef10a15ec35c648c07f6327c378?nk=027d928eb76dded9b65cedfe560f46eb-1529461884

THE END OF DYSLEXIA Innovations in brain research and AI-fueled assistive technologies could level the playing field for those with language-based learning disabilities. Grammarly, a free cloud-based software extension that you add onto a web browser. The plug-in is billed as a "writing assistant," but I mostly used it as a spell-checker, a task at which it proved nearly omniscient. Grammarly could help me spell even the words that regularly flummoxed MS Word and Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/end-of-dyslexia/

Code to Inspire (CTI), a non-profit for teaching women in Afghanistan to write code, has partnered with the Bounties Network to allow students to accept ether (ETH) for fixing vulnerabilities for businesses or projects posting bounties.

https://www.coindesk.com/afghanistan-ethereum-code-to-inspire-value/

French school students will be banned from using mobile phones anywhere on school grounds from September, after the lower house of parliament passed what it called a “detox” law for a younger generation increasingly addicted to screens. The centrist president Emmanuel Macron had promised during his election campaign that he would outlaw children’s phones in nursery, primary and middle-schools, until around the age of 15.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/french-school-students-to-be-banned-from-using-mobile-phones?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_reddit_is_fun

an iPad app for basketball coaches called HomeCourt. You don’t have to be a pro; using the app is as easy as pointing an iPad’s camera at action on the court. Then the tricky stuff happens automatically. HomeCourt uses the support for machine learning added to Apple’s mobile operating system last year to analyze the video. The app tracks each time a player shoots, scores, or misses, and logs the shooter’s location on the court. Each event is indexed so a particular play can later be viewed with a single tap. HomeCourt is built on tools announced by Federighi last summer, when he launched Apple’s bid to become a preferred playground for AI-curious developers. Known as Core ML, those tools help developers who’ve trained machine learning algorithms deploy them on Apple’s mobile devices and PCs.

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-plans-to-bring-artificial-intelligence-to-your-phone/

Parents are losing their sons to Fortnite, the hottest game in the world. Described by the New York Times as a cross “between Minecraft and The Hunger Games’’, Mr Adair says boys were becoming addicted and suffered genuine withdrawal symptoms including “mood swings, urges, and headaches’’. Others were also refusing to go to school because they couldn’t cope with not playing Fortnite.

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/parents-are-losing-their-sons-to-fortnite-the-hottest-game-in-the-world-20180607-p4zjzm.html

eSports are shifting the focus of Australia’s sporting passion

http://theconversation.com/esports-are-shifting-the-focus-of-australias-sporting-passion-93076

Meet the woman who calculates every NSW student's ATAR

https://www.smh.com.au/education/meet-the-woman-who-calculates-every-nsw-student-s-atar-20180531-p4zipm.html

Computer giant Microsoft warns clumsy use of technology is hurting rather than helping learning, and says schools must stop blindly letting students use devices without understanding whether they're engaging or simply entertaining them.

https://www.smh.com.au/education/the-wheels-are-falling-off-technology-in-schools-microsoft-20180601-p4zj05.html

Microsoft confirms it will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion

https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/04/how-to-watch-apples-wwdc-2018-livestream/

On stage at Apple’s annual developer conference on Monday, executive Craig Federighi showcased ARKit 2 capabilities, including a mode called Persistence that lets users drop a virtual object in an environment and then return to it later in that specific place. Another feature, Shared Experiences, allows multiple users to play a single augmented-reality game together. In a demonstration, the company showed a Lego game and displayed how two iPhone users could play at the same time from different locations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-04/apple-upgrades-augmented-reality-features-with-multi-player-mode

A CLASSICAL MATH PROBLEM GETS PULLED INTO SELF-DRIVING CARS

https://www.wired.com/story/a-classical-math-problem-gets-pulled-into-self-driving-cars/

187 THINGS THE BLOCKCHAIN IS SUPPOSED TO FIX

https://www.wired.com/story/187-things-the-blockchain-is-supposed-to-fix/

Uber's self-driving Volvo SUV, which observed Herzberg six seconds before the crash, didn't know "what" she was at first. The software originally classified her as an unknown object, then a vehicle, then a bicycle, the report said. At 1.3 seconds before the crash, the self-driving system realized emergency braking was needed to prevent a crash. But Uber had disabled the feature to reduce the potential for unwanted braking, such as for a plastic bag in the road. Some self-driving car companies use teams of two in their test vehicles. A person behind the wheel monitors the road, and someone in the passenger seat takes notes on a laptop.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/24/technology/uber-arizona-self-driving-report/index.html

No experience needed: Pass this test and runway success could be yours

https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-experience-needed-pass-this-test-and-runway-success-could-be-yours-20180522-p4zgt2.html

IBM warns of instant breaking of encryption by quantum computers: 'Move your data today'. Krishna said that there is a type of encryption, called Lattice Field, that is thought to be resistant to quantum computing attacks.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-warns-of-instant-breaking-of-encryption-by-quantum-computers-move-your-data-today/

Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code Of Conduct. "Don't be evil" has been part of the company's corporate code of conduct since 2000. When Google was reorganized under a new parent company, Alphabet, in 2015, Alphabet assumed a slightly adjusted version of the motto, "do the right thing."

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/05/google-removes-dont-be-evil-clause-from-its-code-of-conduct/

AI Can’t Reason Why The current data-crunching approach to machine learning misses an essential element of human intelligence

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-cant-reason-why-1526657442

Moral Food: A Fish's Trek From 'Bait to Plate' on the Ethereum Blockchain

https://www.coindesk.com/moral-food-a-fishs-trek-from-bait-to-plate-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/

Beyond NAPLAN: MLC's test is called Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). It was developed in the United States, and is widely used in Canada, Singapore and the UAE. If that testing program is just part of teaching and learning - it happens often but without stress, without media attention, without pushing schools into this perverse competitive dynamic - then all the better for our kids and all the better for learning."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/beyond-naplan-the-brave-new-world-of-testing-20180510-p4zefw.html

This Tool Can Hack Your Accounts Even with Two-Factor Authentication

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/269121-this-tool-can-hack-your-accounts-even-with-two-factor-authentication

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/08/social-media-copies-gambling-methods-to-create-psychological-cravings

Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html?m=1

The Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman crossing a roadway in March appears to have seen the victim and her bicycle with the car’s multiple sensors. But the car — the car’s software algorithms — apparently determined she was not in the car’s path, or she wasn’t a danger to the car. In other words, the car’s sensors generated what the car considered a false positive.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/268915-fatal-arizona-crash-ubercar-saw-woman-called-it-a-false-positive

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

With Vista, some machines ran at a snail’s pace. There were issues with driver and software incompatibility, and Vista consumed lots of memory. Windows 8 brought an unpopular Metro interface and the Start button disappeared, to global dismay. These days, we don’t get complete new versions of Windows. Instead, Windows 10 is progressively updated. Last month’s update is the fifth major Windows 10 upgrade.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/windows-10-upgrade-desktop-troubleshooter/news-story/f414b8f3e13dbd34e56de87a83ff8dda

Malcolm Turnbull backs Gonski report call to move from mass learning to tailored education. Too many Australian children are failing to reach their potential at school because of the restrictive nature of year-level progression, the report said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-30/gonski-recommends-australian-schools-move-to-individualised-lea/9708984

By design, Facebook often feels like a public forum rather than an advertising platform run by a corporation. Even Ted Cruz mistakenly told Zuckerberg that the law mandates Facebook be neutral, which isn't true. It’s Diamond and Silk’s First Amendment-granted right to speak untruths—and their followers have every right to spread them. Yet it’s Facebook’s role to determine just how much impact its users have, which they will do in whatever way is befitting to their bottom line. Facebook will never be the free expression forum we want it to be: It’s a private company, with algorithms that move in mysterious, often biased ways. Maybe it’s time we accepted that.

https://www.wired.com/story/diamond-and-silk-expose-facebooks-burden-of-moderation/

China's facial recognition cameras pick man out of crowd of 60,000

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-s-facial-recognition-cameras-pick-man-out-of-crowd-of-60-000-20180414-p4z9kp.html

Telstra gave ABS mobile data to track Canberrans' locations. Privacy advocates have slammed the study and how the ABS had dealt with the data. Chair of Digital Rights Watch Tim Norton said the study was "irresponsible" by the ABS in light of controversy over the 2016 census. "The ABS received aggregate level telecommunications data from a telecommunications company to inform estimates of temporary populations. No individual information was provided to the ABS. Only aggregated counts of mobile telephone transactions were supplied in broad geographical areas," the ABS spokesman said.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/telstra-gave-abs-mobile-data-to-track-canberrans-locations-20180424-p4zbf8.html

The report noted that only five out of 37 universities required intermediate or advanced maths to get into a Bachelor of Science, while only one out of 34 institutions offering engineering degrees required advanced maths. n other words, a student who should be doing advanced or extension mathematics might pick the easier option because they’re more likely to excel at it. It’s thus more likely to contribute to a higher overall ATAR ranking, at the expense of necessary knowledge. A Mitchell Institute study released last month cast doubt on the relevance of the ATAR ranking, reporting that just one in four undergraduate students were admitted into university based on their ATAR results last year. Instead, universities are turning to aptitude tests, interviews, bonus point schemes, essays, portfolios and auditions to assess a candidate’s value.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/work/why-its-time-to-ditch-the-atar/news-story/10cd2894c6be0d859cc2deb375acbefa

How to Create and Share 360-Degree Panoramas With Your Drone

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/264649-create-share-360-degree-panoramas-drone

The Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) - the world governing body for motorsport - reached out to Yamauchi and his team to collaborate and help develop a digital racing licence that could translate to a real-life racing licence, at the same time acknowledging Gran Turismo Sport as a legitimate type of motorsport. There are two FIA-certified Gran Turismo eSport tournaments set to take place in 2017. There is even further potential for winners of online tournaments to receive trophies alongside real-life race winners in F1, the World Endurance Championship and World Rally Championship.

https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/how-gran-turismo-sport-plans-to-change-motorsport-116597

A new teaching method, where explanations of a subject are delivered online at home and the usual homework becomes classwork, could be piloted in NSW high schools within two years. The inverted model of teaching, best exemplified by the teachings of maths ''super teacher'' Eddie Woo, is being trialled among 70 preservice teachers at Macquarie University

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/flipping-teaching-on-its-head-20180327-p4z6gr.html

NSW uni course with no exams or lectures named among top four in the world by MIT

https://www.smh.com.au/education/nsw-uni-course-with-no-exams-or-lectures-named-among-top-four-in-the-world-by-mit-20180328-p4z6pu.html

Children from India, the Philippines and China are outperforming their Australian-born classmates by significant margins, according to a global education report.

http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/2820509/migrant-children-at-the-head-of-the-class-in-australia-oecd-report-finds

Queensland cops to be armed with anti-drone guns during Commonwealth Games

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/technology/techknow/queensland-cops-to-be-armed-with-antidrone-guns-during-commonwealth-games-next-month/news-story/d4d0aff3563e9e9754c7848b55ec7d33

Students who opt for the general mathematics course in the HSC are being rewarded with up to 6.5 marks more than those who study the 2-unit advanced maths course, creating a "loophole" that is pushing high-achieving students into the less challenging subject.

https://www.smh.com.au/education/significant-scaling-advantage-why-more-hsc-students-are-opting-for-lowerlevel-maths-20170515-gw505a.html

HSC students abandoning high-level subjects

https://www.smh.com.au/education/hsc-students-abandoning-high-level-subjects-20180323-p4z5yn.html

It certainly looks bad for Uber

https://ideas.4brad.com/it-certainly-looks-bad-uber

Apple's programming language Swift is less than four years old, but a new report finds that it's already as popular as its predecessor, Apple's more established Objective-C language

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-swift-programming-language-is-now-top-tier/

Jacob Debono is just one of seven winners from around the globe to earn a place in the Infiniti Engineering Academy that offers a life changing opportunity to brilliant, hard-working minds.

https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/to-infiniti-and-beyond-117565.html?ffref=smh&trackLink=SMH2

17-year-old whiz-kid slams schooling system for being too outdated and closed-minded. “Someone who is an IT person doesn’t stand next to a plumber and tell them how to do their job, so why is the government telling teachers how to teach?” she asked.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/17yearold-whizkid-slams-schooling-system-for-being-too-outdated-and-closedminded/news-story/b5bf14740845eaf23df1abf0143bd671

How to Tell if You Should Use Blockchain in Your Application

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/265480-tell-use-blockchain-application

Programming Blockchain Can Change How You See Bitcoin

https://www.coindesk.com/programming-blockchain-will-change-see-bitcoin/

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Scandal: How We Got Here

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/266086-facebook-cambridge-analytica

Maths illiteracy has led to Trump and Brexit: Eddie Woo. "Another part of the problem is the way the subject is taught. We move forward in lockstep fashion where, if you haven't gotten algebra in the two weeks I spend on it in year 7, you'll never learn it again. Next year, you'll still be trying to wrap your head around it but I'll have moved on.

https://www.smh.com.au/education/maths-illiteracy-has-led-to-trump-and-brexit-eddie-woo-20180319-p4z4zs.html

Australian public research university RMIT is launching the country’s first dedicated online short course on blockchain technology, the underlying innovation behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

https://www.ccn.com/australian-university-launches-nations-first-online-blockchain-course/

Essendon launches esports team for 2018, set to meet Adelaide Crows in March

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/essendon-launches-esports-team-for-2018-set-to-meet-adelaide-crows-in-march/news-story/6f2e94549491fde02ded3dd16b0c8383?nk=027d928eb76dded9b65cedfe560f46eb-1518477823

THE WIRED GUIDE TO THE BLOCKCHAIN. DEPENDING ON WHO you ask, blockchains are either the most important technological innovation since the internet or a solution looking for a problem.

https://www.wired.com/story/guide-blockchain/

Burger King Makes the Case for Net Neutrality

http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/burger-king-net-neutrality-video-1202676499/

Tesla To Construct Virtual Solar Power Plant Using 50,000 Homes In South Australia

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/04/tesla-construct-virtual-solar-power-plant-using-50000-homes-south-australia/

Global movie special effects company Technicolor to set up in Adelaide, creating 500 jobs

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/global-movie-special-effects-company-technicolor-to-set-up-in-adelaide-creating-500-jobs/news-story/1b82d5e1b77172ba5e840d4084ccc4f3

When post-production meets AI and the tools become available to anyone, some scary things happen. I was reading about “deepfakes” where an original actor’s face can be replaced by another in motion video. The results are very convincing and will only get better, raising a plethora of legal and moral issues. In the near future, it may well be that you can only be sure what you are witnessing is “true” if you are physically present!

https://www.digistor.com.au/the-latest/artificial-intelligence-in-media/

Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations From the App Store Update: Apple backed off.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5vn9k/apple-blocking-net-neutrality-app-wehe

In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society. INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING.

https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/

'A direct attack on teaching': NSW rules out NAPLAN robo marking

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/a-direct-attack-on-teaching-nsw-rules-out-naplan-robo-marking-20171207-h00jle.html

Five ways blockchain could revolutionise the sharemarket

http://www.smh.com.au/business/motley-fool/five-ways-blockchain-could-revolutionise-the-sharemarket-20171207-p4yxi6.html

Software is Increasingly Complex. That Can Be Dangerous. The Apollo 11 moonshot was done with about 145,000 lines of code and a lot less computing power than your printer. Today’s Microsoft Windows contains some 50 million lines of code. A Boeing 787 runs on 7 million lines of code, but a modern car actually runs on 10-100 million lines of code. Google’s infrastructure is estimated to have 2 billion lines of code. It takes an army of programmers to build and maintain these systems, but it is increasingly harder to code and test every permutation of what machines and users might do.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/259977-software-increasingly-complex-thats-dangerous

DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun 4 The descendant of DeepMind’s world champion Go program stretches its muscles in a new domain

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16741106/deepmind-ai-chess-alphazero-shogi-go

Flinders University education apps for maths and physics

https://phonelabs.net/

School for the gifted: DARA’s gifted students looking for new campus as numbers grow

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/east-hills/adelaides-school-for-the-gifted-looking-for-new-campus-as-numbers-grow/news-story/75f14782a0283eef7956d87faff6f09d

A new patent filing from Sony highlights how the Japanese tech conglomerate may be using blockchain as part of an education platform. In August, Sony announced that it was working with IBM to build a suite of educational services, which would use the tech in part to secure student records and form part of a system for sharing that data between agreed-upon parties.

https://www.coindesk.com/sony-patent-filing-details-blockchain-use-managing-education-data/

Google Unveils AI-Powered Camera Kit for Raspberry Pi

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/259810-google-unveils-ai-powered-camera-kit-raspberry-pi

THIS FROSTBITTEN BLACK METAL ALBUM WAS CREATED BY AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

https://theoutline.com/post/2556/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence

Apple is sharing your face with apps, and you should be worried

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/consumer-security/apple-is-sharing-your-face-with-apps-and-you-should-be-worried-20171201-gzwlco.html

How a 13-year-old Aussie entrepreneur is winning hearts at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneur/how-a-13yearold-aussie-entrepreneur-is-winning-hearts-at-the-global-entrepreneurship-summit-in-india-20171129-gzviuo.html

How Blockchains Will Help Connect Billions to Electricity and Financial Services

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/how-blockchains-will-help-connect-billions-to-electricity-and-financial-services

CAN THIS GAME-LIKE APP HELP STUDENTS DO BETTER IN SCHOOL?

https://www.wired.com/story/can-this-game-like-app-help-students-do-better-in-school/

MIT Boosts Speed of 3D Printing by 10 Times

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/259661-mit-boosts-speed-3d-printing-10-times

How a Wi-Fi Pineapple Can Steal Your Data (And How to Protect Yourself From It)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa39xv/pineapple-wifi-how-to-mitm-hack

Computer science GCSE in disarray after tasks leaked online

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-42138037

Everything I Needed to Know About Cybersecurity I Learned from This 11-Year-Old

https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2017/10/everything-needed-know-about-cybersecurity-learned-11-year-old/

Justin Trudeau Is ‘Very Concerned’ With FCC’s Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality “We need to continue to defend net neutrality,” Trudeau said, but stopped short of saying he'd speak to Trump directly.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywb83y/justin-trudeau-is-very-concerned-with-fcc-plan-to-roll-back-net-neutrality-donald-trump

Are computer science and computer programming the same thing? The answer is no. Think about it this way: computer science is the study of all things related to computers. That means understanding everything from hardware, chips, circuits, processors and storage, to programming languages and theory. “Computer science requires computer programming but it’s possible to learn how to program, and be good at it, without a foundation in computer science,” says engineering manager Stefania Sicurelli. She studied art, worked in animation, then learnt programming and computer science through web development boot camps. “Just like driving a car, you can make a computer do things without fully understanding what’s happening under the bonnet.

https://careerswithstem.com/computer-science-computer-programming-same/?mc_cid=2794a0ed7c&mc_eid=414e09e1c9

UP to 500 jobs are expected to be created in South Australia over the next three years through a dedicated video game industry hub backed by $2 million in State Government funding. The funding announcement, made by Premier Jay Weatherill on Monday, comes after The Advertiser first revealed plans for an industry space to raise the profile and professionalism of SA’s gaming, animation and software development community.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/jobs/video-game-companies-to-benefit-from-2-million-state-government-investment-in-dedicated-industry-hub-for-south-australia/news-story/8bc04434ab700b393a805d7b790fdbf1

Home to more than 70 businesses, including start-ups, and now attracting about 1000 workers and 6500 students annually, the site is being developed as a collaborative working and living space for students, researchers and businesses. German optical and optoelectronics firm Zeiss will move from Lonsdale to Tonsley in April next year, taking up the largest spot — about 4000sq m — under what’s known as the Main Assembly Building. Siemens, Signostics, Micro-X, Flinders University, TAFE SA, Zen Energy Systems, Radical Torque Solutions and the State Drill Core Reference Library are on site. Retail food outlets and cafes are also on site — but there is more room to grow. The growth has followed a $253 million investment commitment by the State Government to redevelop the automotive manufacturing site formerly used by Chrysler and Mitsubishi.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/smart-sa/innovation-in-adelaide-tonsley-precinct-a-collaborative-space-for-creative-thinking/news-story/e55d10c2a9a13cbeb18a853a1c009c82

Cyber Security firm VeroGuard Systems to set up base in Adelaide’s north, creating almost 600 jobs

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/business/jobs/cyber-security-firm-veroguard-systems-to-set-up-base-in-adelaides-north-creating-almost-600-jobs/news-story/8ed612ca5df16bd261217f9bb87eafe2

BOSTON DYNAMICS' ATLAS ROBOT DOES BACKFLIPS

https://www.wired.com/story/atlas-robot-does-backflips-now/

At WIRED's suggestion, Malik asked his wife to re-register her face to see what would happen. After Sherwani freshly programmed her face into the phone, it no longer allowed Ammar access. To further test it, Sherwani tried registering her face again a few hours later, to replicate the indoor, nighttime lighting conditions in which she first set up her iPhone X. The problem returned; Ammar unlocked the phone on his third try this time. It worked again on his sixth try. At that point, Malik says, the phone's AI seemed to learn Ammar's features, and he could consistently unlock it again and again.

https://www.wired.com/story/10-year-old-face-id-unlocks-mothers-iphone-x/

TELSTRA will refund customers for sluggish NBN speeds after an investigation by the consumer watchdog, who has warned it is an ‘industry problem’.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/nbn/telstra-offers-to-refund-customers-for-slow-national-broadband-network-speeds/news-story/0c6bbe66627e728d865479c447f6fcc6

The world’s largest technology conference is under way in San Francisco, with 170,000 people descending on Dreamforce to hear from speakers including Michelle Obama and Ashton Kutcher — and Salesforce’s vision for the fourth industrial revolution.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/dreamforce-the-worlds-largest-tech-meet-kicks-off/news-story/b69080a6333810e066cb0df92fb99f9c

Nvidia’s artificial intelligence can produce images of fake celebrities that look scarily real. As this technology improves, there are obvious potential benefits for companies in the creative industries. For example advertising, movies and video games could be seriously aided by the use of AI image production. Soon it might not be so clear if the pretty woman selling you shampoo is actually real or not. But on the flip side, it does raise questions about how such technology could be used in the era of fake news.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/graphic-design/nvidias-artificial-intelligence-can-produce-images-of-fake-celebrities-that-look-scarily-real/news-story/451883987cd650fa1c6c0816ac2bbde2

SAUDI Arabia has become the first country to grant a robot citizenship — and critics say “Sophia” already has more rights than the country’s women.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/saudi-arabia-gives-a-robot-citizenship-in-world-first/news-story/c46db098b973544aabd0fb1827c27114

The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college applications. He trained his first neural net—the kind of system that tech giants use to recognize your voice or face—two years ago, at the age of 15. Inspired by reports of software mastering Atari games and the board game Go

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-high-schooler-shaking-up-artificial-intelligence/

3 human qualities digital technology can’t replace in the future economy: experience, values and judgement

https://theurbantechnologist.com/2015/04/12/3-human-qualities-digital-technology-cant-replace-in-the-future-economy-experience-values-and-judgement/

A COUPLE YEARS ago, Apple went on a shopping spree. It snatched up PrimeSense, maker of some of the best 3-D sensors on the market, as well Perceptio, Metaio, and Faceshift, companies that developed image recognition, augmented reality, and motion capture technology, respectively. It’s not unusual for Cupertino to buy other companies’ technology in order to bolster its own. But at the time, it was hard to know exactly what Apple planned to do with its haul. It wasn’t until last month, at the company’s annual talent show, that the culmination of years of acquisitions and research began to make sense: Apple was building the iPhone X.

https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-face-tracking-tech-behind-apples-animoji/

Footy star turns booze business into $200m giant. His company plans to allow any company in the world to follow in the footsteps of Uber’s driver tracking platform or Domino’s pizza delivery system.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/footy-star-turns-booze-business-into-200m-giant/news-story/ee601d48ad4a4708b70af3b2412c86ce