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Fighting fire with fire: carbon offsets in the North Kimberley

December 09, 2016
In early 2014 four North Kimberley native-title groups registered fire-management businesses under the Carbon Farming Initiative. Since then they have generated some 400,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) through traditional methods that burn vegetation early in the growth season, to prevent fierce high-summer wildfires.
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How Predix is driving the Industrial Internet of Things

December 09, 2016
Back in 2013 Predix, GE’s operating platform for the Industrial Internet, was little more than an ambitious idea, albeit one that the company regarded as critical to its future. Predix launched that year in Chicago at the second Minds+Machines event, but, says Beena Ammanath, VP of data analytics for GE Digital, “we didn’t have many external customers attending … and four years ago Predix was more in PowerPoint than reality."
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World's largest floating LNG ship will call Australia home

December 02, 2016
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.
Dubbed Prelude, after the gas field where it will operate off the coast of northwestern Australia, the massive facility is 488 metres long and 74 meters wide. Its footprint is as large as four soccer fields.
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Qantas and GE on the flight path to sustainability

December 01, 2016
Two innovative corporations are better, bigger and more influential in solving global problems than one. GE today became a foundation partner in the Qantas Future Planet Partnership, which aims to both reduce and offset carbon emissions and encourage wider participation in a sustainable future.
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The geometry of genius

December 01, 2016
To a pure mathematics genius, the unsolved problem looms like an unconquered peak to a mountain climber. “The driving interest for us was that we couldn’t solve it ... so we had to solve it,” says Brisbane maths mountaineer Ivan Zelich, “It was something that no one had found before, so it was much more encouraging to try and solve it.”
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Inside the mind of a top CIO

November 28, 2016
Mark Sheppard formed his first software company with a mate back in the ’80s. The two 14-year-olds growing up outside the city of Oxford in England, had programmed an adventure game and sold 15 copies—they were pretty happy!
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The secrets of exceptional memory revealed

November 24, 2016
“Exceptional minds are different to the norm, therefore we’re somewhat suspicious of them,” says Michele Juratowitch, director of Clearing Skies, a Queensland-based consultancy for gifted children. After all, she says, prodigy is from the Latin prodigium, meaning “a monster that violates the natural order”.
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Tapped: a cascade of benefits to Melbourne Water treatment

November 21, 2016
Google ‘Healesville, Victoria’, and pictures of platypuses well up out of the hundreds of images of green scenery. These inhabitants of the local sanctuary and streams seem to symbolise that groundwater around here is clean.
But Yarra Valley tap water is cleaner still, due to management by Melbourne Water. Now three water-treatment plants in the Yarra Valley are being upgraded, using game-changing new filtration technology—no major capital works required.
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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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Opportunity knocks: opening the door to genius

November 17, 2016
Futurist and biomedical engineer Dr Jordan Nguyen says that people’s relationship with technology is becoming increasingly intimate, “So we need to figure out how that’s going to augment us, not just be something that we use and rely on, and become lazier.”
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