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• ​Mark Thompson on dealing with disruption

  The World Bank Group and Virgin Unite Entrepreneurs advisor shares a few valuable lessons about innovation and managing change.

• ​3 million workers needed by 2030

  The Australian labour market will increase by another 3 million workers in the next 15 years to 2030, according to a new report.
  

• Opponents focus on defeating CISA cyberthreat info sharing bill

  Opponents of a U.S. Senate bill intended to encourage businesses to share information about cyberthreats may have stalled a vote on the legislation.

• One in three datacentre servers is a zombie

  A new study says that 30% of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, or are using energy but delivering no useful information. What's remarkable is that that percentage hasn't changed since 2008, when a separate study showed the same thing.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, April 7

  YouTube Kids blasted for ad-heavy content... new battery tech promises one-minute charge times... CurrentC payments coming mid-year... and more tech news.

• New battery could reduce phone charging to just one minute

  Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new battery that can be recharged in about a minute and is safer than the lithium ion cells used in everything from smartwatches to passenger jets.

• Stanford crypto expert Dan Boneh wins $175K computer science award

  Stanford University computer science professor <a href="http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/">Dan Boneh</a> has been named as the recipient of the <a href="http://awards.acm.org/infosys/">2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences</a> for his work in cryptography.

• Stanford breakthrough could make better chips cheaper

  Researchers at Stanford University have come up with a new way to make chips and solar panels using gallium arsenide, a semiconductor that beats silicon in several important areas but is typically too expensive for widespread use.

• These CompSci programs deliver most bang for buck, report finds

  The computer science programs at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and MIT offer students the best return on investment, according to a new report by salary watcher PayScale.

• Google, Stanford use machine learning on 37.8m data points for drug discovery

  Researchers from Google and Stanford University have used machine learning methods – deep learning and multitask networks – to discover effective drug treatments for a variety of diseases.

• Obama: Tech companies and government must share threat data

  President Barack Obama signed an executive order today on cyber security that aims to ward off digital threats that imperil both the economy and national security.

• Obama pushes for more cyberthreat information sharing

  U.S. businesses and government agencies need to work more closely together to combat the growing threat of cyberattacks, President Barack Obama said Friday.

• Groups to push for encryption, secure payments at White House cyber summit

  The White House heads west to Silicon Valley on Friday looking for ideas on how to improve the nation's cybersecurity, and members of President Barack Obama's administration are likely to get an earful.

• Sometimes it's ethical for the doctor to Google you

  The medical community needs ethical guidelines for doctors who Google their patients for information because such a move can erode confidence and trust.

• Ford opens autonomous vehicle R&D center in Tesla territory

  Ford on Thursday <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/27/ford-to-open-new-silicon-valley-research-lab/">announced</a> that it is opening a research center in Palo Alto, California, to accelerate its development of autonomous vehicles and how they will communicate with cars and the infrastructure around them.