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• Happy Pi Day! MIT to break admissions news at exactly 3/14/15/9:26

  How disappointing it would have been if MIT hadn't come up with a clever way to recognize this most special of Pi Days: 3/14/15/9:26:53... or 3.141592653 for you purists.

• AGL tests virtual reality for employee training

  A trial of Samsung Gear VR at AGL Energy Limited (AGL) will explore how virtual reality can assist in training new employees, among other potential opportunities.

• We’ll have chips implanted in our bodies by 2040

  2040 will herald the decade of thought activation and mind control, and the work colleague we chat to at the watercooler might be a hologram.
  

• Deloitte predicts 're-enterprisation of IT' in 2015

  Stand aside, consumers – the enterprise will drive growth of drones, wearable devices and 3D printing in 2015, according to Deloitte.

• RadComms: Tech advances to be fueled by spectrum

  Access to high-bandwidth wireless broadband is critical for supporting drones, national defence and autonomous mining equipment, according to presenters from industry and government at the RadComms conference in Sydney today.
  

• Australia should introduce drone privacy laws by 2015: committee

  The Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs has recommended that the Australian government introduce privacy legislation by 2015 to cover the use of drones, according to a report tabled in Parliament today.

• Drones could prove useful for high risk situations: Queensland Police Service

  Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to help the Queensland Police Service (QPS) with situations such as sieges or industrial fires where officers’ lives could be put at risk, according to QPS Superintendent Brian Huxley.

• NICTA concerned over IT security brain drain

  Australia needs to create a cybersecurity ecosystem of companies so there are more opportunities for computer scientist and software engineering graduates according to NICTA software systems research group leader Scientia Professor Gernot Heiser.

• IN PICTURES: 15 current and future uses for drones

  For a world already on edge about NSA spying, drone technology is just another reason to keep looking over our shoulders.

• NICTA to help protect the US' drone fleet

  Australia’s government-funded organisation NICTA will help protect the US from cyber attacks to its drones in an US$18 million project.

• EFF lodges lawsuits against the US for information on drones

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security in the US demanding it reveals information about the use of its Predator drones.