Author: Aneesa

As the sector enters a new phase of addressing issues that have long been ignored. For decades, minorities have long advocated for equality. Some of the most recent examples have been Hollywood’s Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. In fact, the BLM movement has been so significant that even leaders of some of … Continue reading Revisiting the conversation about tech diversity and inclusion in Australia Continue Reading →

The two parties have a week to agree on protocols for how expert evidence is evaluated, otherwise, the presiding judge will decide.   Samsung has labelled the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) demands in regards to a Federal Court case as “cheap”.  “The reason why we’re having this discussion — the evidence they seek … Continue reading Samsung calls ACCC’s demands ‘cheap’ in court case about Galaxy phone ads Continue Reading →

Employers are increasingly using AI-based psychological profiling as part of their hiring processes. That’s a labour rights issue, and it should worry us. Data collected from your smartphone usage patterns can be used to predict four of your Big Five personality traits, according to new research from Princeton University.   BIG DATA Azure Synapse Analytics: A progress … Continue reading Smartphone usage patterns can reveal your personality type: Research Continue Reading →

The state government aims to democratise digital technology for all citizens in the state. The Western Australia government has released a draft digital inclusion blueprint to gather feedback on how to make Western Australia more digitally inclusive. Developed by the Office of Digital Government, the draft blueprint [PDF] has proposed that there needs to be a coordinated … Continue reading Western Australian government seeks feedback on draft digital inclusion blueprint Continue Reading →

The Grace Hopper cable will run between the US, the UK and Spain, making it Google’s first investment in a subsea cable route directly to Spain.   Google on Tuesday announced its fourth private subsea cable, connecting the US, the UK and Spain. Named for the computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, the new subsea cable … Continue reading Google is building its fourth private subsea cable Continue Reading →

Market revenue is predicted to decline, but this won’t deter vendors from moving forward and adopting 5G.   5G will happen without Huawei in the UK Investment in 5G infrastructure is expected to make up 21.3% of the wireless infrastructure market by the end of 2020.  The coronavirus pandemic has caused disruption down the IT supply chain, … Continue reading 5G expected to account for 21% of all wireless infrastructure investment this year Continue Reading →

The move comes as Zillow aims to make real estate more digital and low touch. Zillow said it is launching self-tours to its owned inventory to minimize contact and enable unoccupied home tours on flexible schedules via its app. The move comes as Zillow has stepped up its purchases of real estate inventory to sell them … Continue reading Zillow to launch self-tours of unoccupied homes, digital floor plans Continue Reading →

Ahem, hey, any chance LOHAN can hitch a ride? NASA wants to lift a 2.5-metre-long, reusable far-infrared telescope into Earth’s stratosphere using a massive high-altitude balloon in 2023 to check out the heavens more economically. The mission, known as ASTHROS, short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High-spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths, will gather a range … Continue reading We’re not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning Continue Reading →

Alleges opt-in that promised “more control” actually sent more data without informed consent. Google ‘strongly disagrees’ The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has hauled Google into the nation’s Federal Court for misleading local users “… to obtain their consent to expand the scope of personal information that Google could collect and combine about consumers’ … Continue reading Australia sues Google over data collection practices that merged DoubleClick data to create single user profiles Continue Reading →

Game mod pipes VirtualBox into virtual blockputers A developer who goes by “Delta2Force” has created a Minecraft mod that runs virtual machines on virtual computers built inside Minecraft. The mod is called “MCVmComputers” and is yours for the downloading on GitHub. The odd twist on virtualization relies on Oracle’s free VirtualBox desktop hypervisor and the Fabric Minecraft modloader. … Continue reading No, boss, I’m not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now Continue Reading →