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It’s always great to be able to spread news of Australian success stories in technology and today that story is Kerb. An Australian-founded global parking app have won the first Toyota Hackathon in Melbourne on the weekend. In Australian cities and the world over, parking is a major hassle....
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Hyatt became the first major hotel chain in the world to have a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. The platform also hosts bug bounty programs for companies including Airbnb, Nintendo, WordPress, Starbucks, Spotify, GM and more. The idea is it have ethical white hat hackers bang on their...
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Square have announced a new In-App Payments SDK, enabling businesses (via developers) to integrate Square payments within their mobile apps. The process to do this is simple, requiring just just a few lines of code. If you’re a developer and want to build a fully secure payments flow inside...
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Back in April of2015, Intel released their first Compute Stick. What is essentially a computerin a USB drive, Intel has now released the Neural Compute Stick 2, designed totake on your latest AI and IoT challenges at the edge. The hardware development platform, allows developers to prototype, tune, and...
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Sphero is well known for their series of connected robots that respond to your command, via smartphones. When Sphero released the Education version, known as Sphero Edu, things got serious, transforming the product from entertainment to a platform that could be programmed, serving as a great tool to...
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Google’s annual developer conference kicked off today and one of the most impressive demos was a new product known as Google Duplex. Part of the Google Assistant features, Duplex leverages years of investment from Google in natural language processing, deep learning and text to speech. The on stage demo...
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The National Australia Bank have teamed up with Alibaba’s Cloud division to host a hackathon this weekend, to explore new ways to help Australian small businesses leverage opportunities to do business with Asia. The 3-day event will see more than 100 people across 15 teams look at how data...
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Grab your coffee, you’ll need it for this one. The University of Technology Sydney’s Quantum Software and Information (QSI) has released qcompiler.com, providing universal access to a new quantum programming environment. QSI is Australia’s leading quantum software research centre, is assisting the quantum community with a resource to solve complex control...
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Raspberry Pi is a fantastic low-cost hardware platform that enables hackers and developers to create IoT solutions. Just over two years ago, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released. Now comes the Model B+ with extra features like upgraded processor, power-over-ethernet, 802.11AC and Bluetooth 4.2 to name a few. The first...
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Twilio have announced the addition of RCS to Twilio. Adding RCS enables developers to integrate rich, interactive messages into their messaging applications. RCS enables consumers to view hi-resolution photos and videos, add appointments to their calendar, receive directions to a business location, initiate a support call and even share their...
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Anki is a company based in Silicon Valley that develops robotics and artificial intelligence. Today Anki announced its bringing their consumer robotics range to Australia. Robotics and A.I. combine here for an interesting take on gameplay in the physical world, by blending the best of toys and video games into...
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Schneider Electric is the company that owns Clipsal, those light switches and powerpoints in your house, but the company is much broader than that. Its a global specialist in energy management and automation, that has just held their first hackathon, ) in partnership with Blue Chilli and Transport for...
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Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella announced their voice assistant Cortana has now passed more than 140 million monthly active users. That’s a pretty healthy number, but they didn’t detail how many of those are voice users. The Build 2017 developer conference will talk about extending the voice assistant across devices and...
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Yesterday something pretty phenomenal happened. Around 10,000 Aussie kids became part of history setting a world record for the largest number of kids programming within a 24hr period. Moonhack was run by CodeClub, an organisation that helps kids between the ages of 9 and 11, learn how to code and has...
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Back in March, Microsoft announced they were bringing bots to Skype, in the latest Windows Insider built of Windows 10, they’re delivering. Bots are designed to automate user interaction with data, without the need for pesky humans in between. This means by chatting to a bot in Skype, could deliver answers instantly...
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This afternoon I had the opportunity to sit down with Katie Penn, head of platform growth at Twitter and Jenny Goodridge, head of business development, Twitter Australia for an exclusive interview ahead of their #HelloWorld developer event tonight. #HelloWorld is an event held around the world to help Twitter...
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During Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote, Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Live API. This API will allow developers to build apps that allow you to stream live from any camera, not just the one in your mobile phone. After opening Facebook Live to iOS and...
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The jobs of the future won’t be in manufacturing, they’ll be in writing the software that drives the robots in the factories. Programming is such a fundamental skill that all kids should have exposure to it, even if they’re don’t end up going into a computer-related industry, every industry...
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Telstra have just released a new API for developers to leverage in their applications. The latest API is for WiFi hotspots and allows apps to surface the location of Telstra AIR WiFi Hotspots for a specified location. Typically developers would leverage the user’s current latitude and longitude coordinate of...
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Comedian and maths geek, Adam Spencer just wrapped up is morning keynote at the MoodleMoot conference in Melbourne. After explaining the world’s search for large prime numbers, Spencer moved on to reflect on Australia’s education system. He says there’s currently no point in his daughter’s education plan (she’s 7),...
It’s always great to be able to spread news of Australian success stories in technology and today that story is Kerb. An Australian-founded global parking app have won the first Toyota Hackathon in Melbourne on the weekend. In Australian cities and the world over, parking is a major hassle....
Hyatt became the first major hotel chain in the world to have a public bug bounty program with HackerOne. The platform also hosts bug bounty programs for companies including Airbnb, Nintendo, WordPress, Starbucks, Spotify, GM and more. The idea is it have ethical white hat hackers bang on their...
Square have announced a new In-App Payments SDK, enabling businesses (via developers) to integrate Square payments within their mobile apps. The process to do this is simple, requiring just just a few lines of code. If you’re a developer and want to build a fully secure payments flow inside...
Back in April of2015, Intel released their first Compute Stick. What is essentially a computerin a USB drive, Intel has now released the Neural Compute Stick 2, designed totake on your latest AI and IoT challenges at the edge. The hardware development platform, allows developers to prototype, tune, and...
Sphero is well known for their series of connected robots that respond to your command, via smartphones. When Sphero released the Education version, known as Sphero Edu, things got serious, transforming the product from entertainment to a platform that could be programmed, serving as a great tool to...
Google’s annual developer conference kicked off today and one of the most impressive demos was a new product known as Google Duplex. Part of the Google Assistant features, Duplex leverages years of investment from Google in natural language processing, deep learning and text to speech. The on stage demo...
The National Australia Bank have teamed up with Alibaba’s Cloud division to host a hackathon this weekend, to explore new ways to help Australian small businesses leverage opportunities to do business with Asia. The 3-day event will see more than 100 people across 15 teams look at how data...
Grab your coffee, you’ll need it for this one. The University of Technology Sydney’s Quantum Software and Information (QSI) has released qcompiler.com, providing universal access to a new quantum programming environment. QSI is Australia’s leading quantum software research centre, is assisting the quantum community with a resource to solve complex control...
Raspberry Pi is a fantastic low-cost hardware platform that enables hackers and developers to create IoT solutions. Just over two years ago, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released. Now comes the Model B+ with extra features like upgraded processor, power-over-ethernet, 802.11AC and Bluetooth 4.2 to name a few. The first...
Twilio have announced the addition of RCS to Twilio. Adding RCS enables developers to integrate rich, interactive messages into their messaging applications. RCS enables consumers to view hi-resolution photos and videos, add appointments to their calendar, receive directions to a business location, initiate a support call and even share their...
Anki is a company based in Silicon Valley that develops robotics and artificial intelligence. Today Anki announced its bringing their consumer robotics range to Australia. Robotics and A.I. combine here for an interesting take on gameplay in the physical world, by blending the best of toys and video games into...
Schneider Electric is the company that owns Clipsal, those light switches and powerpoints in your house, but the company is much broader than that. Its a global specialist in energy management and automation, that has just held their first hackathon, ) in partnership with Blue Chilli and Transport for...
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella announced their voice assistant Cortana has now passed more than 140 million monthly active users. That’s a pretty healthy number, but they didn’t detail how many of those are voice users. The Build 2017 developer conference will talk about extending the voice assistant across devices and...
Yesterday something pretty phenomenal happened. Around 10,000 Aussie kids became part of history setting a world record for the largest number of kids programming within a 24hr period. Moonhack was run by CodeClub, an organisation that helps kids between the ages of 9 and 11, learn how to code and has...
Back in March, Microsoft announced they were bringing bots to Skype, in the latest Windows Insider built of Windows 10, they’re delivering. Bots are designed to automate user interaction with data, without the need for pesky humans in between. This means by chatting to a bot in Skype, could deliver answers instantly...
This afternoon I had the opportunity to sit down with Katie Penn, head of platform growth at Twitter and Jenny Goodridge, head of business development, Twitter Australia for an exclusive interview ahead of their #HelloWorld developer event tonight. #HelloWorld is an event held around the world to help Twitter...
During Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote, Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Live API. This API will allow developers to build apps that allow you to stream live from any camera, not just the one in your mobile phone. After opening Facebook Live to iOS and...
The jobs of the future won’t be in manufacturing, they’ll be in writing the software that drives the robots in the factories. Programming is such a fundamental skill that all kids should have exposure to it, even if they’re don’t end up going into a computer-related industry, every industry...
