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The Australian government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) company is linking up rural residents to satellite services even where towns have existing fixed-line communications infrastructure, according to the Northern Territory government, which has also criticised the installation delays, service dropouts, and usage caps on the service. “The Australian government’s current position is that areas outside the major cities and towns, including all remote communities in the Northern Territory, […]

The federal government has tasked Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) with developing a plan that will put Australia in a position as a leading “innovation nation” by 2030. In its 2030 Strategic Plan Issues paper, the independent body charged with researching, planning, and advising the government on all science, research, and innovation matters highlighted six challenges it sees as central to shaping the strategy, with one placing […]

Monday 04:30 GMT Overview Dollar weakness weighed down Asia-Pacific equities while government bonds and gold gained as investors in the region sought havens in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s failure to repeal Obamacare. Hot topic The US dollar was lower against a variety of currencies in Asia as investors tempered expectations of pro-business reforms from the Trump administration after Republicans failed to unify around healthcare […]

Anodot team Image: Supplied Business intelligence comes down to the ability to identify and analyse issues based on a series of variables. While data analysts are adept at identifying issues they have been trained to look for, it is just as important to account for the so-called “unknown unknowns” — the issues that analysts don’t know about or wouldn’t think about investigating — before they escalate into […]

March 26, 2017 by: FT Confidential Research Government efforts to cool the Chinese housing market are not working. Despite an intensifying clampdown, more households expect prices to continue rising in the coming months, particularly in the richest cities that are the focus of the government’s campaign. Consumer sentiment towards real estate purchases has also spiked, probably in response to widespread coverage of the policy tightening. The clampdown […]

The Australian government has signed a formal “Dialogue on Innovation” agreement with China that will see both countries exchange ideas between government representatives, business, and the research sector. Under the arrangement, both countries will contribute up to AU$6 million over three years to the next round of the Joint Research Centres, under the Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF), which supports strategic science, technology, and innovation collaboration […]

As part of a government initiative to address the growing incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the country, several U.S. states have reportedly started giving away free baby boxes to parents of newborn babies. What Is A Baby Box? The baby box initiative originally started in Finland in the later 1930s. During this period, one of out 10 Finnish babies died in their first year. A […]

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Konrad Mizzi (left) is the fourth district’s frontrunner, followed by Chris Fearne (right). Konrad Mizzi is still the Labour Party’s frontrunner on the fourth electoral district despite his involvement in the Panama scandal, according to an internal survey conducted by other candidates on the district. As the battle heats up for Labour’s three safe seats in its stronghold, the survey, seen by this newspaper, shows Dr Mizzi […]

You may want to look up at the sky and observe a little more because the World Meteorological Organization just added 11 new clouds to the International Cloud Atlas, the world’s definitive guide and database for cloud classification. World Meteorological Day last March 23 also marks the publication of the new edition of the International Cloud Atlas. In this latest publication, the strange-looking, turbulent meteorological phenomenon asperitas is […]

It should come as no surprise that there are numerous activities related to Trust, Identity, and Privacy on the agenda for IETF 98. Below I will highlight a few of the many activities and provide pointers to a number of additional ones. There is something for everyone interested in these areas in Chicago in the coming week! The fun starts before the meeting even begins with the […]

MyRepublic has said that retail service providers (RSPs) cannot offer gigabit-speed services on Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) for anything less than AU$300 thanks to the connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge. The comments came in response to NBN CEO Bill Morrow’s claims last month that consumers don’t need and wouldn’t use 1Gbps broadband, as evidenced by the fact that no RSPs have taken up NBN’s offer to […]

Last week, the Office for National Statistics released the inflation results for the British economy. Even though most analysts weren’t expecting any huge differences, the numbers (updated until February) paint a completely different picture. In February, the inflation rate increased rather sharply. On a month-on-month basis, the CPI increased by 0.7% (whereas January was a month with deflation). The current YoY inflation rate based on the CPI […]

Samsung will seek this week to draw a line under the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone safety scandal with the launch of the South Korean technology company’s latest handset, the Galaxy S8. Released last August, the Note 7 was hastily withdrawn after a series of incidents in which the phones caught fire. Samsung expects the debacle, which dealt a severe blow to its reputation, to have cost the […]

After a week dominated by questions over whether Donald Trump will be able to push his economic agenda through Congress, here are the questions FT markets reporters are asking in the final trading week of March. Will investors keep faith in Trump’s ability to drive tax cuts? That is the question facing equity markets after the White House failed to muster the support needed in the House […]

General Electric is planning to launch products based on what it calls a Digital Ghost, a combination of its digital twin efforts and industrial control technologies, to thwart cyberattacks. This effort, which is likely to be commercialized in the next year, aims to us physics to thwart attacks. Industrial machines would be able to sense anomalies that would trigger an autoimmune response to attacks. GE’s plans could […]

By Lucia Mutikani | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON New orders for U.S.-made capital goods unexpectedly fell in February, but a surge in shipments amid demand for machinery and electrical equipment supported expectations for an acceleration in business investment in the first quarter. Manufacturing is recovering from a prolonged slump, driven by the energy sector, bucking a slowdown in the broader economy. The Federal Reserve last week described business investment […]

I am blessed to write about smartphones here on ZDNet and tend to overspend on the high end flagships because of how much time I spend using phones every day. However, after 10 days with my T-Mobile SIM in the new Moto G5 Plus, it will be very difficult to justify spending more than $300 on a smartphone again. The Moto G4 Plus, check out my review […]

The oil market may return to balance by the third quarter of this year if producers comply with their deal to cut output, otherwise the timeframe for rebalancing could be pushed out further, Kuwaiti oil minister Essam al-Marzouq said on Sunday. Marzouq told reporters that there needed to be 100 percent compliance among producers with the deal. Earlier, Russia’s energy minister said compliance was at 94 percent. […]

WASHINGTON — A Pakistani militant who planned a devastating truck bomb attack on a hotel in Islamabad in 2008 — which left two members of the American military and dozens of others dead — was killed in recent days by an American drone strike in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Saturday night. The militant, Qari Yasin, had ties to the Pakistani Taliban, who are closely aligned with […]

Malwarebytes Contact centers are a weak link in the enterprise and are often “neglected” and forgotten when it comes to enterprise security investments, analysts claim. The contact center used to be the main channel for customers to connect to businesses. As email, social media, and live chat systems have expanded, there are more options for communication — however, picking up the phone and speaking to an agent […]

Orcas or killer whales breathe out good bacteria, salmonella, and fungi, a new study has found. Data that may shed light on the role of infectious diseases in the endangered Puget Sound orca population also suggested that human waste could be contaminating their marine environment and causing the “bad breath.” Breathing Out A Range Of Bacteria In their analysis over a four-year period, researchers followed whales swimming […]

(Image: file photo) Microsoft has quietly removed a feature on its document sharing site Docs.com that allowed anyone to search through millions of files for sensitive and personal information. Users had complained over the weekend on Twitter that anyone could use the site’s search box to trawl through publicly-accessible documents and files stored on the site, which were clearly meant to remain private. Among the files reviewed […]

Nothing works without proteins in the body; they are the molecular all-rounders in our cells. If they do not work properly, severe diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, may result. To develop methods to repair malfunctioning proteins, their structure has to be known. Using a big data approach, researchers have now developed a method to predict protein structures. (via WSJ)

Elon Musk has finally shut down rumors that his own company, SpaceX, will greatly benefit from President Donald Trump’s latest bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. This is despite the unbelievable fact that the President just made human exploration to Mars a federal law. Elon Musk Not Happy Responding to a tweet by Kara Swisher, the cofounder of independent tech news website Recode, which implied that […]

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