Seafood industry to utilise new technology in fight against food fraud – ABC News
The seafood industry is hoping world-first technology will protect them against food fraud.
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World first portable X-ray fluorescence technology will help protect against food-fraud
The $202,500 project is being run by the Australian Nuclear Science...
Facebook is taking a hard look at racial bias in its algorithms
Facebook has announced it’s building teams that will study racial bias baked into the algorithms used on its platform and on Instagram, which it owns. The move is a significant acknowledgment that the...
The Many Faces of Bad Science
In 1942, sociologist Robert Merton described the ethos of science in terms of its four key values: The first, universalism, meant the rules for doing research are objective and apply to all scientists, regardless...
How Technology Can Help Solve (My) Business Problems – Forbes
There is an incredible similarity between the business challenges of a Sumerian potter and a modern-day business owner. Decades separate the two, but the same problems keep them up at night. Both need to...
Why you can’t help screwing around while working from home
Part of the July Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.
Since Matthew Burrows entered self-quarantine in March, he’s had to learn how to accommodate a new co-worker:...
Facebook says it will look for racial bias in its algorithms
The news: Facebook says it is setting up new internal teams to look for racial bias in the algorithms that drive its main social network and Instagram, according to the Wall Street Journal. In...
4 powerful features Python is still missing
Python is a living language — under constant development to keep up with the times. The Python Software Foundation is not just making additions to the standard library and to the reference implementation CPython,...
4 USB Audio Interfaces for Your Home Studio, Reviewed (2020)
First, the good. The Apogee Duet (Rating: 6/10) sounds phenomenal. Apogee has been a long time leader in professional studio gear, with a particular emphasis on great digital/analog conversion. The Duet lives up to...
When to use a fog computing node
Think of a fog computing node as a physical server that resides between the edge devices (thermostats, robots, in-vehicle computers) and the back-end systems, typically hosted on public clouds. The fog nodes respond to...
DUG Technology plans ASX float to bring supercomputing to new markets – Small Caps
DUG Technology will have an indicative market capitalisation of $134 million upon listing.
Australian supercomputer company DUG Technology has kicked off a $26 million initial public offering (IPO) and aims to make its debut...