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Relates well to Key Knowledge point "Non-technical constraints on website solutions, including......copyright...." on how the on-line community of YouTube deal with copyright.

"Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras is run by NICTA under the  Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications."

"We may not be aware of them, but we use standards every day, in all aspects of our daily lives - in communications, media, healthcare, food, transport, construction, furniture, energy…"

"Stephen Hawking has unveiled his new "life-changing" communications platform - which helps him to speak twice as quickly through a predictive text system - while at the same time expressing that the technology's extrapolation into full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race". "

The first SMS message was sent 20 years ago this week. In Australia, we've been LOLing and WTFing for even less time than that - but some are already questioning how many birthdays the technology has left.

Fined $100,000 for spamming customers ... Tiger Airways. Photo: Dallas Kilponen Tiger Airways has been hit with a $110,000 fine for continuing to spam customers after they unsubscribed from marketing emails. An investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found the airline failed to remove customers despite their repeated requests.