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• Government to develop ‘Online Safety Charter’

  The government will develop an ‘Online Safety Charter’ that sets out its expectations from digital platforms.

• GE rolls out its industrial IoT platform Predix out into separate company

  Spinning the company’s Predix IIoT platform into its own company pulls GE's approach to the technology back into line with the competition.

• Augmented analytics: The future of data and analytics

  As the core of any digital business, analytics is at a critical inflection point. Data complexity is increasing and business people across the enterprise are drowning in data. They’re struggling to identify what’s most important and the best actions to take.

• Government gives NBN Co more time to pay off its loan

  NBN Co will have an additional three years to pay off a loan from the government intended to plug the gap between the cost of the NBN rollout and the cap on the total equity contributions from Canberra.

• Microsoft joins RegTech Association

  The industry body for the burgeoning regulation technology sector – the RegTech Association (RTA) – has announced the addition of Microsoft to its membership ranks.

• SAP takes on intelligent RPA following Contextor acquisition

  SAP is bringing to market what it calls an intelligent form of robotic process automation, following its recent acquisition of French firm Contextor SAS.

• Ambient computing is in the air, but what is it?

  A massive convergence of technologies will enable us to use computers and the internet without really using them.

• Kubernetes vendors target container security, operations and management

  If you were kicking the tires on Kubernetes and other cloud/container services you found may have found nirvana at this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 where all manner of new operational software and support from VMware, Arista and others were on display.

• Salesforce releases JavaScript-friendly Lightning to bypass Aura’s limits

  Lightning Web Components is a programming model to ease JavaScript coding on the Lightning Platform

• Deep-sea explorers turn to Dell to power fleet of intelligent vessels

  The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface but 95 percent of it remains unexplored.

• Undersea robot ‘crop duster’ replenishes Great Barrier Reef coral

  An undersea robot ‘crop duster’ has been put to work on the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to repopulate areas scorched by coral bleaching.

• Telstra and Lexus team up for connected vehicle trial on Victorian roads

  Telstra and Lexus Australia have won a $3.5 million grant from the Victorian government to run a field trial of 4G-based connected vehicle technology.

• CBA capitulates, will support Apple Pay next year

  The ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will offer customers Apple Pay in January, it announced today.

• Screenplays key as anti-piracy effort targets subtitle download services

  A group of entertainment companies is relying on the literary copyright of screenplays as it seeks to block four sites that offer downloads of subtitle files.

• New institute wants ‘world where systems behave ethically’

  The institute will undertake research in the emerging field of quantitative fairness and work with the public and private sectors to put the research into practice. It will release open source ethical AI tools that can be adopted and adapted, says director Bill Simpson-Young.