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• Google’s HTC move borrows from Apple’s playbook

  Google's $1.1 billion acquisition of HTC’s smartphone engineering arm is a recognition that to produce a quality device you need to control over the hardware and software – just like Apple.

• Keybase takes on Slack with new end-to-end encrypted team messaging tool

  Keybase Teams is one of a variety of collaboration tools that sees secure communications options as a selling point.

• What is edge computing and how it’s changing the network

  Edge computing is a way to streamline the flow of traffic from IoT devices and provide real-time local data analysis.

• Imagination wants to add intelligence to smartphone chips

  Specialized hardware needed to accelerate machine learning algorithms is moving out of the data center and into high-end mobile phones. Soon it could be in everyone's pocket, if chip designer Imagination Technologies has its way.

• Google tightens grip on Android hardware with HTC deal

  Google is buying its way back into the smartphone business, almost four years after selling its stake in Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.

• Google boosts hardware ambitions through US$1.1 billion deal with HTC

  A range of HTC employees will join Google under a US$1.1 billion (AUD$1.4 billion) deal by the search leviathan to boost its hardware development efforts.

• McDonald’s taps Telstra for fibre upgrade

  Telstra will roll out a fibre network for more than 850 McDonald’s restaurants as part of a $90 million deal with the fast food giant.

• OAIC, Data61 partner for data de-identification guide

  A new guide from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is intended to help organisations effectively de-identify their data.

• Is universal end-to-end encrypted email possible (or even desirable)?

  End-to-end email encryption is getting more attention as security and compliance concerns mount, but practical use cases are rapidly being eaten away by other technologies.

• NBN leverages open source software to analyse faults

  A new NBN initiative will use a range of open source projects including Apache SPARK, Kafka, Flume, Cassandra and JanusGraph to help analyse and improve the end user experience on the National Broadband Network.