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• Melbourne Uni launches quantum simulator and environment QUI

  The University of Melbourne has launched an online quantum computer simulator and programming environment aimed at making students and industry 'quantum ready'.

• Chemist Warehouse plans AR guides, IoT sensors for stores

  The Chemist Warehouse chain of discount pharmacies is contemplating installing thousands of sensors in each of its stores to track customer preferences and providing augmented reality guides via customers' smartphones that would help them navigate around its stores.

• Government should consider tearing up Telstra cancer contract: Inquiry

  The Department of Health should consider terminating its contract with Telstra Health to operate two cancer screening registries, a parliamentary committee has concluded.

• IT talent war driving ‘unsustainable’ wage growth, report says

  A shortage of IT professionals in the region is driving ‘unsustainable’ wage growth and leaving smaller firms unable to compete for talent, says a report from tech role recruiter Halcyon Knights

• Anti-piracy bill takes aim at ‘cyberlockers’, search engines

  The government has introduced a bill that will significantly widen the scope of Australia’s site-blocking laws.

• Victoria Police to fit 220 patrol cars with number plate recognition cams

  ​Victoria Police has signed a $17.3 million contract with Motorola Solutions to fit out 220 patrol cars with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.

• New anti-piracy laws to target search engines

  The government wants to significantly expand the scope of laws that currently allow copyright owners and licensees to seek court orders forcing Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block their customers from accessing sites that facilitate online piracy.

• Apple allows A/NZ users tool to see what data it has collected

  Apple has rolled out an online tool allowing users to download, change or delete all the data that the iPhone maker has collected on them.

• GitHub asserts independence from Microsoft during Universe event

  At GitHub Universe in San Francisco, the open source code repository company announced a new 'Actions' service described by head of platform Sam Lambert as the most significant feature for its community since pull requests, while other executives asserted the company's independent status ahead of its expected buyout approval from Microsoft this week.

• Optus forks out $12 million to customers over direct carrier billing

  Optus has refunded some $12 million to around 240,000 of its customers over its so-called ‘Direct Carrier Billing’ service.

• Google to charge smartphone makers for Google Play in Europe

  Google has revamped how it distributes its mobile apps in the European Union, introducing a licensing fee for device makers to access its app marketplace in a response to regulators' findings that it had broken antitrust law.

• YouTube confirms major technical issues

  YouTube says it is working to fix problems preventing access to videos hosted on the service.

• How MOVUS is helping dumb machines join the IoT era

  The world is full of dumb machines, and Brad Parsons wants to drag them whirring, gurgling and buzzing into the Internet of Things era.

• What is a private cloud? (And some things that it's not)

  Here's a clear definition of private cloud that should help lift some of misconceptions about what private cloud is and is not, and reaffirm that private cloud is definitely not dead.

• Google aims Plus at the enterprise as consumer side falters

  Google sees a ‘new direction’ for its social network after a security flaw prompts it to kill off the consumer version. Google Plus is being tied more tightly into G Suite.