Woolworths supermarket managers have a new tool to help with their daily tasks.
Category: Technology news
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DNA: the ultimate hard drive
When it comes to storing information, hard drives don’t hold a candle to DNA. Our genetic code packs billions of gigabytes into a single gram. A mere milligram of the molecule could encode the complete text of every book in the US Library of Congress and have plenty of room to spare. All of this has been mostly theoretical – until now. In a new study, researchers stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA – one trillionth of a gram – an advance that could revolutionise our ability to save data.
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Metro Trains brings free wi-fi trial online
Metro Trains has kicked off a three-month trial of free wi-fi services at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station.
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Digital storm on the horizon
Michael Fraser calls it the ”rubbish web”. That is the internet we will be left with in five to 10 years unless governments and cyber corporations fix the holes that allow criminals to infiltrate the world wide web and strip global citizens of their identity, money and dignity, he believes.
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Senate passes ‘lite’ data retention laws
Law enforcement agencies will be able to force internet service providers to store data on subscribers under new legislation approved by the Senate today.
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By the numbers: iiNet and TPG get it on
The most telling chart in the iiNet 2012 financial results, released last Thursday, was the one showing the difference in costs for an on-net and off-net customer. They acquired an extra 167,000 on-net customers last year, each creating a gross margin of AU$34 per month. That’s the equivalent of 811,000 off-net customers adding just AU$7 per month each.
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iPhone button doesn’t work? Here’s what to do
Is your iPhone home button beginning to fail? Is your thumb beginning to get sorer and sorer from pressing it over and over again? Think you may be at risk of getting arthritis if you have to keep pressing it forcefully?
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FTTP could save $700m a year in maintenance
A fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) National Broadband Network (NBN) could save up to $700 million per year in telecommunication maintenance, according to a new report released today by BIS Shrapnel.