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Microsoft: Office will be about 20 seconds slower initially on Apple Silicon, Rosetta 2

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Microsoft said Office apps will take longer to load initially on Apple Silicon when using Rosetta 2 translation.

Apple launched new Macs based on its M1 processor[1], which begins the march off of Intel....

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Databricks launches SQL Analytics | ZDNet

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The SQL editor in Databricks' new SQL Analytics Workspace Credit: Databricks
Data analytics contender Databricks[1] offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark[2]...

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Apple M1 speed tests: New Arm MacBook Air blows away Intel-based MacBook Pro

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Apple's new M1 chip in the MacBook Air has showed up in a Geekbench benchmark that suggests the Arm-based hardware far outperforms today's Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro. 

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Per MacRumors[1], the MacBook Air running on Apple's

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Using data science and analytics to fight childhood cancer

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Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) kills hundreds of children a year. It's the type of cancer that causes the most deaths in children under two, and in teenagers. It has a poor prognosis, and its treatments can be severely...

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The web is full of junk health info. This startup wants to change that

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In the age of social media, blogs, and online forums, the most common practice when feeling slightly under the weather has undeniably become to resort to a quick Google search. Unfortunately, when they are not unnecessarily worrying, the...

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Pokémon Go still finding relevance in Singapore's tourism industry

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Traditional businesses finally embrace digital, but still face limitsIt may be years since the mobile game first gained international fame, but Pokémon Go remains popular in Singapore where it now is being tapped to boost local businesses amidst the global pandemic. New PokéStops and Gyms have...

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Users shift off 100/40Mbps NBN plans

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Even though they only make up a small portion of its customer base, there has been quite the shift in how users are connecting to NBN on plans offering...

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Tasmania to pump AU$135.4 million into making government services digital

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The Tasmanian government has announced a AU$135.4 million, multi-year investment in technology to support service delivery.

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"When it comes to our ICT infrastructure, for too long have we have been expecting 21st Century services from 20th Century

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Services Australia has a lot of data and it's trying to use it for the greater good

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Services Australia CEO Rebecca Skinner joined the agency in March, a week before the country started to feel the impacts of COVID-19. She said the pandemic fast-tracked...

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