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04 July, 2019
Keller doesn’t agree. “The working title for this talk was ‘Moore’s law is not dead but if you think so you’re stupid,’" he said Sunday. He asserted that Intel can keep it going and supply tech companies ever more computing power. His argument rests in part on redefining Moore’s law. “I’m not pedantic about Moore’s law talking just about transistors shrinking—I’m interested in the technology trends and the physics and metaphysics around that,” Keller says. “Moore’s law is a collective delusion shared by millions of people.” Keller also said that Intel would need to try other tactics, such as building vertically, layering transistors or chips on top of each other. He claimed this approach will keep power consumption down by shortening the distance between different parts of a chip. Keller said that using nanowires and stacking his team had mapped a path to packing transistors 50 times more densely than possible with Intel's 10 nanometer generation of technology.
03 July, 2019
NBN Co’s ‘Netflix tax’ slammed amid growing public outcry over net neutrality. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers must treat all internet use equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on the content accessed. Net neutrality is not protected by law in Australia as it is in other parts of the world including Europe and Canada. “Australia doesn’t have a right to net neutrality. We haven’t enshrined it, but have worked on a presumption that it was there,” Dr Leaver said.
Labels:
Ethical
02 July, 2019
Starting from the first term of 2020, smartphones will be banned from all classrooms in primary schools and high schools across Victoria. Students will have to leave their phones in their lockers from the first bell until the last, unless they need it for medical reasons (and no, Snapchat streaks don’t count). Phones will also be allowed if the teacher has specifically said students will need them as part of the day’s lesson.
'Cutting-edge': the project that could replace NAPLAN. They would also be adaptive, which means the questions would get harder or easier based on the child's skills. This would give a more accurate, fine-grained picture of how well the child has mastered the skills within that learning progression.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
research
27 June, 2019
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06 June, 2019
In upcoming versions of iOS and macOS, the new Find My feature will broadcast Bluetooth signals from Apple devices even when they're offline, allowing nearby Apple devices to relay their location to the cloud. That should help you locate your stolen laptop even when it's sleeping in a thief's bag. And it turns out that Apple's elaborate encryption scheme is also designed not only to prevent interlopers from identifying or tracking an iDevice from its Bluetooth signal, but also to keep Apple itself from learning device locations, even as it allows you to pinpoint yours.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Privacy
21 May, 2019
High school students will get hands-on experience in SA’s emerging space sector, as companies hope to inspire a new generation into becoming the workforce of the future. Premier Steven Marshall has announced a plan to give students in Years 10 to 12 the opportunity of work experience in a “pilot” scheme set to take off later this year.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Career,
Robotics,
Women in IT
20 May, 2019
In the five days before election night, Professor Bela Stantic analysed 2 million social media comments, from more than half a million unique accounts, relating to 50 key terms, and predicted that Scott Morrison would win. The director of Griffith University's Big Data and Smart Analytics lab has a track record. In 2016, he tipped Donald Trump to take the United States' presidency, and in doing so accurately forecast how all but one state voted. He also foresaw the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union coming that same year.
Labels:
Big Data,
ICT Capability,
research
15 May, 2019
03 May, 2019
Beijing: A feared smartphone app being used by Chinese police to surveil the Uighur ethnic minority has been reverse-engineered by a human rights group, revealing that even turning your own phone off can trigger suspicion. When The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age travelled to China's western region of Xinjiang in late 2018, residents there said Muslim Uighurs regularly had their phones inspected by police. If "suspicious" content was found, they were sent to re-education centres, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are believed to be detained.
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Privacy,
Social
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