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GUEST OPINION: The pandemic, ongoing lockdowns and tax return time are leading to a perfect scam storm, says Dr Suranga Seneviratne from the University of Sydney’s School of Computer Science, who provides timely advice on how to spot and avoid a scam.

Network operator Superloop has announced the retirement of founder and chair Bevan Slattery from its board. Peter O'Connell has been appointed to the board as non-executive chair.

ResusRight, a start-up formed jointly by the University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, has raised $784,000 in an investment round to manufacture a paediatric device designed to safely resuscitate babies who have difficulty breathing soon after birth.

Imaging vendor Lexmark has appointed Melanie Ford to the role of healthcare industry consultant for Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian Centre for Field Robotics has announced the appointment of Professor Ian Manchester as its new director.

The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has promoted Andrew Williams to deputy chief executive officer and Meredith Lea to the new role of policy manager.

With over 10% of gaming revenue coming from in-game gambling, such as loot boxes, the University of Sydney says game developers are operating in an increasingly competitive sphere, and are looking to in-game gambling to increase revenue, arguably to detriment of players.

GUEST OPINION by Byron Yeung, Vice President APAC, Data Integration Division at Qlik: Data is critical to local government operations. It helps them allocate resources, address pressing issues facing the community, and so on. Ultimately, data helps local governments better serve communities through data-informed decision-making. Unfortunately, it’s not utilised nearly as much as it can and should be.

Facebook is right in its assessment that Australian news content and the interactions it leads to with the social media site's users do not create much revenue, an academic at the University of Sydney's School of Computer Science says.

Scientists from the University of Sydney have created a water-splitting catalyst that needs less energy to produce pure hydrogen than earlier catalysts, the organisation says.

Storage vendor Hitachi Vantara has made two senior appointments and promoted its regional CTO to a global role.

Global education software and services company Tribal Group has signed a contract with the University of Sydney to migrate its Student Management System (SMS) SITS: Vision to the cloud, on a five year subscription deal.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded $15.14 million in funding to 16 research projects to help address solar PV panel efficiency, overall cost reductions and end-of-life issues.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: 21 May, 2020: Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is continuing to provide a range of artificial intelligence-enhanced and cloud-based innovations as a part of their COVID-19 response. 

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT: 21 May, 2020: Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is continuing to provide a range of artificial intelligence-enhanced and cloud-based innovations as a part of their COVID-19 response. 

A multidisciplinary team of academics and students from the University of Sydney has collaborated with NSW Health Infrastructure to produce a "simple, low cost ventilator solution" to assist the COVID-19 effort.  

The University of Sydney says it has used Microsoft cognitive services to build an AI-infused bot in “double-quick time” that responds to student enquiries about COVID-19 and provides instant answers to many of their questions.

Power and thermal management specialist Delta Electronics has appointed David Leal to the role of country manager for Delta Electronics (Australia).

Four scientists from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have won the Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation, one of the seven awards given each year as part of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

Alvy Ray Smith is one of the living legends of our modern age, and his talk at the University of Sydney was a fascinating look at the history of the pixel, graphics, Pixar and plenty more.