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​A song can convey so much; a story, a mood, an emotion and up to 400 bits per second, thanks to new technique developed by researchers at ETH Zurich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Commonwealth Bank of Australia's online banking and CommBank app will be unavailable, or suffer limited functionality, from midnight tonight until 9am tomorrow due to a planned systems upgrade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​New South Wale transport minister Andrew Constance has revealed plans to roll out facial recognition technology across the transport network as an alternative to Opal cards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​On a chill Sunday evening late last month, 70 concerned citizens packed into Addison Road Community Centre in Sydney for a 5G information evening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Data Republic, the company behind a governance platform for data sharing within and between organisations, is seeking a new chief technology officer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Digital risk protection managed service provider Digital Shadows has today announced it has secured $10M in a funding round led by National Australia Bank (NAB). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around 24,000 Bunnings employees – about 60 per cent of the total workforce – are currently using the platform after it was launched internally about a year ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​One of Australia's largest life insurers OnePath is continuing to invest in its inhouse AI underwriting engine, making more than 70 enhancements since its official launch in November. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the availability of real-time payments between banks and a proliferation of bill splitting apps, when it comes to divvying up the money for a group meal or round of drinks, Aussies still prefer to use cash, a Bankwest survey suggests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A vulnerability in a widely used, open source genomic analysis software allowed attackers to edit records of patient genetic sequences, leaving them at risk of being prescribed ineffective or toxic drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They pause, bring their head up, and swing a leg back to shoot. They extend a foot, miss the ball completely and fall with a thud on the turf. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Three of Australia's biggest banks ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Westpac have formed a company with Westfield shopping centre operator Scentre and IBM, to build a blockchain-based platform for bank guarantees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) – the system operator of the My Health Record – is providing nine clinical software vendors with $40,000 each to integrate their systems with the record and build new features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Nearmap is making three dimensional imagery of towns across Australia and the US available to explore in its web application, MapBrowser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A digital assistant platform developed by Deakin University to support its students has secured its first commercial role at Allianz Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​App and website design workflow platform InVision has announced plans to 'expand rapidly' in Australia, and appointed its first Asia-Pacific managing director. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The results of this survey show that while the retail industry is often considered to be at the forefront of consumer experience innovation, there's still a long way to go to meet shopper expectations," the report concluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sydney Water has named the program director of its customer experience platform roll out Sridhar Pydipati as acting CIO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The viewing of child exploitation material found on seized mobile phones and computers during abuse investigations takes an incredible toll on police officers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Australia's state and territory education ministers have agreed to delay the national online rollout of NAPLAN until 2021 after thousands of public school students were left unable to access or complete online tests earlier this year due to the connectivity problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​​A review of the apps offered by Australia's biggest banks has found Commonwealth Bank of Australia's to be the best, for the third year in a row. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The swimming pool capital of Australia is the Perth suburb of City Beach. Just under 60 per cent of properties have their own pool, a remarkable statistic considering most dwelling are minutes from the ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crowdsourced delivery start-up Passel is partnering with Swinburne University to develop algorithms to help it identify the best person to notify about a potential courier job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will be required to review its privacy and data retention policies under threat of court action from the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A Microsoft Australia IT trainee program will expand into South Australia this September after receiving $200,000 in funding from the state government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A two year study has discovered 2040 malware-laden counterfeit apps in Android app store, Google Play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The protests were promoted in a number of Facebook groups including Stop5G Australia which claims 5G is "probably the greatest threat to humanity we have ever faced" which is being delivered by the "psychopathic ruling elite". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Health insurer nib has launched an Alexa skill for customers to find nearby health providers and answer common insurance queries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the value of middle managers is being closely scrutinised within many organisations, according to recruitment firm Hays they can be a businesses' "biggest asset". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The National Broadband Network (NBN) is a "catastrophe" that has "failed to deliver on its promise" according to Huawei Australia's chief technology officer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lexus is trialling a range of connected-vehicle technologies on public roads in Victoria, the car manufacturer announced today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A new centre which will ready a generation of skilled workers to enter Australia's burgeoning space industry has officially launched in Sydney. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Street signs are everywhere, but where they are precisely is not always known by the local government authorities that manage them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Researchers from CSIRO's Data61 have formalised a technique to 'vaccinate' machine learning models against adversarial attacks and make them more robust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is decommissioning its 'Can I Fly There?' drone safety app after two years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​In 1993, Visa became the first payments network to apply neural networks to calculate, in real-time, the 'riskiness' of a transaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Cricket Australia has announced a multi-year partnership with HCL Technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two years late and $23.7 million over budget, the roll-out of a pathology lab information system by the Western Australia government has been slammed by the state's auditor general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The CEO-in-waiting of SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has unveiled a strategy to help clients bring more automation to data science and AI efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Air New Zealand is using drones to inspect difficult to reach parts of its aircraft during maintenance stops. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Just because organisations have sought the legally required consent to use data doesn't make them immune to a backlash from customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Managing Victoria's parks and waterways is a big job. A four million hectare sized job in fact, which falls to state statutory authority Parks Victoria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Nobody likes a liar. Except if you are hiring for sales-orientated jobs, a pilot study by researchers at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business has indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company's strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Chatbots provide a way for customers to transact with companies from wherever they are at any hour of the day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A firm which helps military veterans find technology and cyber security roles is now working with large companies to help them reskill existing workforces and stop cycles of 'fire and rehire'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) is trialling it's driverless electric shuttle bus in the seaside town of Busselton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​A Deloitte report released today has 'busted the myth' of robots taking jobs from humans, arguing that unemployment levels are low across the Western world despite accelerating technological change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

​Melbourne has been selected by Uber as a pilot city for its flying taxi service Uber Air. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nearly 70 per cent of organisations in Australia are content for IT decisions and spending to be driven by business units, away from the direct control of the CIO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]