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"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."

Make innovation a priority. It won't "just happen." Despite the plethora of hurdles, IT is crucial to innovation. "I believe that IT departments can be the best program managers for innovation," says DeSai. "Especially when IT departments are in partnership with marketing, they can create powerful platforms to gain deeper understanding of current and future needs of the customers."

he Cisco Binary Game is the best way to learn and practice the binary number system. It is great for classes, students and teachers in science, math, digital electronics, computers, programming, logic and networking. It is also a LOT of fun to play for anyone who likes to play fast-paced arcade games.

"Twitter is often plagued with people's accounts being infected, then sending out spam direct messages (DM's), such as "is this you", or "Hey somebody is saying really bad things about you", or other things calculated to tempt you to click on a link."

If you're looking to get started in the cryptocurrency world, one of the first things you'll need to do is create a Binance account. Binance is one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, so it's a good idea to have an account there. Creating a Binance account is relatively simple and only requires a few pieces of information from you. However, before you can start trading on Binance, you'll need to verify your account. This process can take a little bit of time, but it's worth it to make sure your account is secure. Once your account is verified, you'll be able to deposit money into it and start trading cryptocurrencies.

"Popplet is a wonderful engaging web tool and iPad app that allows for a collaborative mind-mapping experience. With lots of great features, a slick interface, and easy to use note-taking or organizing tool. This is a full-featured site that can be used with multiple subjects and for myriad reasons. "

"Dan is an entrepreneur, programmer, and author. He created the first electronic spreadsheet application in 1979 and has been innovating ever since. Dan's talk is a fast moving flurry of images from the early days, growth, and acquisition of VisiCalc and his company, Software Arts, and his experiences - both good and bad - as an entrepreneur 30 years later. "

"AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use." Great for refreshing older Mac OSX systems.

"The questions on this year's exam paper may include case studies, design briefs, newspaper articles, and images as stimulus material. This could make it interesting as well as challenging. The challenge is in being able to apply your knowledge to the stimulus material presented on the exam paper."

"Since our post about Infographics, a *lot* of people, stunned by Tufte's "less is more" gif, have been asking us lately what's our recommendation for a data visualization package. Considering the size of their datasets, and the kind of story they wanna tell, our answer has been invariably the same: "Well, use your dusty ol' Excel". Surprising isn't it?"

"The 2014 15 Budget is officially available at budget.gov.au as the authoritative source of Budget Papers (BPs) and Portfolio Budget Statement (PBS) documents. This dataset is a collection of data sources from the 2014 15 Budget"

"MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a stream and YouTube downloader."

"This is how my grandmother felt when she first sat with a computer :P Well This is basically a sketch from Norway i think about a monk that tries to read a book when the books first came, u know that they had scrolls before right?"

"STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math - all of which are critically important for students to learn (regardless of the economy or jobs). Our governments tout STEM because of the growth opportunities, without looking at where the growth really is. Within all the noise about the "STEM job gap," our focus should be on computer science - on the software and digital hardware that is revolutionizing the world around us and disrupting every industry known to man."

"What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn't too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code - a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life. "

ZTE Open running Firefox OS is now on sale exclusively on eBay for £60 (Wired UK)

"The following by is an analysis of legal issues which apply to street photography in NSW Australia."

"An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE 1.94% opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea's alleged cyber attack on the company. What follows is their words, condensed and edited for clarity."

"I'm here to speak to you about the legend of data liberation. It's an important story, it's a story about society, about people, about geeks, and it's a story about government."

"On this week's episode of The Simpsons, "Specs and the City", Mr Burns gives every employee of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant a pair of "Oogle Goggles". It seems like an unusually generous and savvy gift, but really Mr Burns just wants to use the devices to spy on his employees. You see where this is going. "