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• Wearable brain devices sold with questionable claims

  ​Wearable ‘neurotechnology’ devices have in recent years hit the mainstream market; pitched to consumers as a way to improve memory and attention, boost brain fitness and control games and objects with the power of the mind.

• Waze traffic data could cut ambulance arrival times by 60 per cent

  A study in California has found ‘crash alerts’ are posted on Google’s community-based traffic and navigation app Waze an average two minutes and 41 seconds sooner a corresponding 911 call.

• US charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with espionage

  The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information.

• Study: most enterprise IoT transactions are unencrypted

  Of the millions of enterprise-Internet of Things​ transactions examined in a recent study, the vast majority were sent without benefit of encryption.

• GitHub launches ‘Sponsors’ feature to fund open source projects

  GitHub has unveiled a new way to financially support developers that use the company’s platform to host their open source projects.

• Optus: Access ‘remains stable’ following major outage

  ​Optus says access to international internet, streaming and gaming services “remains stable” following a major outage affecting customers last night.

• Tasmania inches closer to justice ICT overhaul

  The Tasmanian government has earmarked funds from its Digital Transformation Priority Expenditure Program for a number of major tech initiatives in the state, including the ongoing Justice Connect project.

• Australian businesses split over where AI accountability lies

  Australian companies are split over whether they or the providers of artificial intelligence solutions should be responsible for its outcomes, according to a LivePerson-commissioned survey by research firm Fifth Quadrant.

• Chip designer ARM halts work with Huawei after U.S. ban

  British chip designer ARM has halted relations with Huawei in order to comply with a U.S. blockade of the company, potentially crippling the Chinese company's ability to make new chips for its future smartphones.

• Blackmores shifts APAC business to Oracle’s cloud ERP

  Blackmores’ CIO Brett Winn says the vitamins and health supplements company is about three-quarters of the way through its rollout of Oracle ERP Cloud across the Asian markets it operates in.

• 4 factors to ruin your serverless migration

  As more and more companies embark on their digital transformation journey, organisations need to upgrade and evolve their infrastructure technology to maintain a competitive edge.

• LivePerson CEO slams Facebook: “They need to go under”

  ​The CEO of chatbot and ‘conversational commerce’ company LivePerson says Facebook should be shut down until it can fix what he sees as multiple issues with the social media platform.

• Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban

  Amazon.com said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.

• AI delivering ‘new economics’ for banks, says UBank CEO

  UBank’s embrace of artificial intelligence has helped it grow its customer base while retaining a compact staff headcount -- and it’s also freeing up time for its employees as they attempt to understand the future of banking, according to chief executive Lee Hatton.

• Security’s not that funny, but maybe it should be

  Sometimes a single experience or just one data point can radically reshape an individual’s entire outlook — at least, that was the case for Michael Madon, the senior vice president and general manager of security awareness and threat intelligence products at Mimecast.