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• Autodesk introduces new scan-to-mesh capabilities to enhance sustainable building practices such as retrofitting existing buildings and adaptive reuse projects.
• Additional updates to the AECO portfolio deliver performance enhancements to core products and help teams streamline complex models.

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system which estimates energy efficiency in Australian homes is being trialled by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and property data analytics company CoreLogic Australia.

New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has filed civil proceedings in the Auckland High Court against electricity lines company Vector for failing to meet minimum reliability requirements for four consecutive years.

Global IT services company DXC Technology has signed an agreement with Transpower, New Zealand’s state-owned electric power transmission company, to manage its Oracle and Linux environments for the next five years.

The accelerated shift towards remote working will continue to create new opportunities for cyber attacks in the year ahead, according to one global security firm.

There is an opportunity for mobile operators to compete with broadband providers by offering 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to homes and businesses, according to new research commission by Nokia.

Thirty thousand to 40,000 additional connections are being made every week to the National Broadband Network as the rollout of the network continues.

The deployment of smart home IoT devices may pose risks of attacks by hackers, according to a new report which forecasts that the number of smart home devices is expected to increase globally at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9% until 2023.

NBN Co, the company building Australia’s broadband access network, says it has achieved trial download speeds of 994Mbps — or 1Gbps — in technology trials on its hybrid-fibre coaxial access network.

A new home that is giving people with an intellectual disability a new level of accommodation and support through the use of assistive technology has opened in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton East.

Consumers who own in-home digital voice assistant devices are "using their smartphones less often for entertainment and online purchasing", according to results of a new survey.

The Internet of Things and the development of so-called ‘smart cities are fueling huge worldwide growth in the number of connected ‘things’, with latest estimates of 1.6 billion of these connections being used by smart cities next year - 2016 – alone.

The August smart lock system, originally announced way back in May 2013 and slated for a Q1 2014 release, is finally arriving in doors worldwide this August.