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• 7400 households volunteer for ACCC’s broadband testing program

  More than 7400 households have registered to participate in a broadband performance monitoring scheme run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

• CBA robot Chip takes a trip to the airport

  ​Can a friendly humanoid robot help take some of the stress out of air travel? That’s the question being posed by researchers from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s innovation lab this week in a series of experiments at Sydney International Airport.

• Microsoft puts the kibosh on its GigJam work collaboration app

  After piloting the collaboration tool for more than a year, Microsoft pulled the plug this week, saying it has learned from the project and plans to use those lessons on future products.

• Samsung's Note8 to debut in September

  Samsung's Note8 will launch in mid-September with a big screen, dual cameras, stylus and a hope that the smartphone maker can finally put the Note7 battery debacle behind it.

• Vocus reports loss after ‘year of transition’

  Vocus has reported a $1.5 billion loss for the 12-months to 30 June, compared to a $64 million profit for FY16.

• Serverless computing may kill Google Cloud Platform

  Unless Google can get its serverless act together, it may end up winning the container battle but losing the cloud war

• Singapore cable to come online ahead of schedule, Vocus says

  Vocus has announced a revised timeline for completion of the Australia Singapore Cable, with the telco saying today that expects it to go live in July 2018.

• Women in cyber security face persistent barriers, research review confirms

  Women in cyber security face “persistent and enduring barriers” a review of research commissioned by the Office of the Cyber Security Special Adviser has revealed.

• Introducing Australia’s first quantum computing hardware company

  Australia's first quantum computing hardware company launched today, with the goal of producing a 10 qubit integrated circuit prototype by 2022.

• Government to cap IT contract size

  The government will look at setting a range of annual targets for ICT procurement, starting with an annual cap for agencies on ICT contracts.