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Rianne van Veldhuizen, the upbeat Managing Director of AWS in Australia and New Zealand, highlighted two very different customer case studies at the recent Data and AI Day in Melbourne.

Microsoft and partner companies are working with the NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate in a program aimed at safeguarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and language, through Australia’s first augmented reality and digital skills initiative, The Njulgang Project.

Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman has updated its service to provide what it says is instant translation of website content including fact sheets, information guides and templates.

A record-breaking Kickstarter-listed project entitled Cubetto has not only won awards and is Montessori-approved, but teaches kids how to code with wood, no screens, and is on sale now.

If you've ever had difficulty saying g'day mate to Siri you're not alone, but Apple is moving to improve the language capabilities of its iOS personal assistant, including better support for Aussie dialect.

The Oxford English Dictionary received a techy boost today, adding 'live-blogging', 'crowdsourcing' and 'tweeting' to its collection of words.

Google has won a potential battle in Sweden, with the Swedish Language Council removing 'ungoogleable' from its dictionary after legal pressure from the search giant.

Apple has introduced a new clause to its iPhone developer licence that restricts the languages that can be used to write apps. Adobe isn't mentioned, but it is the apparent target of the change.