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New Zealand

How to create a hi-tech nation
Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae shares his views on how to grow billion-dollar tech companies and keep them in New Zealand...
Computerworld

From blokes in sheds to inventing wizards
In a garage near you is an inventor working on the next big thing. It could be anything from clothes that measure your heart...
NZ Herald

Monkey business leads to games success
The New Zealand video game development industry grew by 46 per cent last year, boosted by the huge growth of smartphone...
NZ Herald

Apple acts against Kiwi brand name
A single letter is at the centre of a David and Goliath legal fight between a Kiwi and technology giant Apple...
Stuff

Australia

Body scanners coming to airports in July
Passengers heading in and out of Australia's international airports will be facing random screenings via new body scanners set to be deployed around the country from July, with the government insisting that passenger privacy and safety is at the top of the list when it comes to the new technology...
ZDNet

Hey Zuckerberg, let us post breastfeeding photos
MP Gail Gago will write to the Facebook asking that a ban on photos of breastfeeding mums be overturned...
Herald Sun

Climate Change & Energy

Bendy battery gives smart fabrics a charge
A FLEXIBLE battery that can be woven unobtrusively into fabrics could one day provide electricity for gadgets buried in your clothing...
New Scientist

Volcanoes, rather than a quiet Sun, may have triggered the Little Ice Age
A new study shows that volcanic eruptions, rather than a minimum in solar activity, may have triggered the Little Ice Age...
Arstechnica

Other

London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns
Fears of an internet meltdown during the London Games may lead to web access being rationed for British businesses...
Guardian

Facebook 'makes it harder for brands to advertise for free'
Since filing for its initial public offering earlier this week, which could see the company become worth $100bn, speculation has been mounting as to how the social network will ramp up its profits to please shareholders...
Telegraph

FBI probes Anonymous phone hack
The FBI investigates how activists linked to Anonymous obtained a recording of a phone call between US and UK police on their operations against hacking...
BBC

Acta protests spread over Europe
Dozens of protests are planned across Europe in opposition to the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement...
BBC

83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World's First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant
A European octogenarian is the recipient of the first-ever 3-D printed jawbone, made of titanium powder that was sintered together one layer at a time...
PopSci

Microsoft publishes fancy-pants heterogeneous parallel GPGPU C++ AMP specification
Microsoft has published a specification for its new C++ AMP heterogeneous parallel programming system, which provides a clean and natural way for C++ programmers to write GPU-accelerated software...
Arstechnica

A license to link? Lowe's has one
Hardware giant Lowe's has a two-page license granting people the right to create hyperlinks to the company website. Get your fax machine ready...
Arstechnica

Doomsday flu decision time: The story so far
Last year, two flu research groups created what could be extremely dangerous viruses through their research into bird flu...
New Scientist

Surface of Mars an Unlikely Place for Life After 600-Million-Year Drought, Say Scientists
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the...
Science Daily

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