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From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system

Arianna Olivelli, CSIRO and Uwe Rosebrock, CSIRO It’s estimated about two million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans from rivers each year. But our waterways aren’t just conveyor belts transporting land waste to the oceans: they also capture and retain… Continue Reading…

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How To Install WordPress On Your Portable Web Server

Fleur Stephens Now that you’ve created your portable web server, you might like to install WordPress. An offline WordPress installation is great for practising WordPress, testing themes and plugins, and offsite website development. Follow the tutorial below to create a… Continue Reading…

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Monthly Meeting November 2020

The November 2020 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 4th November 2020, with over 100 members in attendance. This was the program for the evening: Guest Speakers: Jerzy Zywicki and Miroslav Reitikh from Digital Home Systems Topic: The Z Wave Protocol… Continue Reading…

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Member Wanted Notices

Roman Skarbek WANTED. An old laptop from around 2000-2008. Must have a serial port and Windows XP and be a 32-bit system.  Should be in working condition. Please call me: 0400 767 594. Will pay.  Make My Day. Thanks. Roman… Continue Reading…

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Electronic Circuit Simulation

Dick Maybach, Brookdale Computer Users Group Circuit simulation will interest only a few, but skimming through this article should impress you with the support a PC can provide for this specialized area. You likely have different interests, and it would… Continue Reading…

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Wifi 6 – What happened to b, g, n, ac

Phil Sorrentino, Sun City Centre Computer Club Ever since Wi-Fi appeared way back around 2005, the Wi-Fi version has been described by a letter because of the letter reference used in the 802.11 Local Area Network standard. Initially, there were… Continue Reading…

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Interesting Internet Finds

Steve Costello, SEFCUG In the course of going through the more than 300 RSS feeds, I often run across things that I think might be of interest to other user group members. The following are some items I found interesting… Continue Reading…

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3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Sorting real from fake is an increasing challenge.

T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of Technology; Daniel Angus, Queensland University of Technology, and Paula Dootson, Queensland University of Technology Twitter screenshots/Unsplash, Author provided Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly… Continue Reading…

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How Australia can reap the benefits and dodge the dangers of the Internet of Things

Kayleen Manwaring, UNSW and Peter Leonard, UNSW The Internet of Things (IoT) is already all around us. Online devices have become essential in industries from manufacturing and healthcare to agriculture and environmental management, not to mention our own homes. Digital… Continue Reading…

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