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Melbourne University’s new campaign “Collision” is a play to demonstrate ideas that can only be developed at a university — where different fields of study have the opportunity to discover from each other. Not sure about the longer-form exemplars — they’re quite long and seem a bit underproduced.

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Somehow we ended up with the task of loading a bunch on files onto USB sticks for a conference. Lifehacker has a reasonable suggestion for automating this process.

A Dutch company, CloudCutout is commercialising a PhD student’s research into a neural network that has been trained to cut out photo subjects shot against a green screen or infinity white background. Looks promising if it works.

Stumbled across this site by Microsoft, which focuses on stories around its brand. Might provide some ideas for us?

Useful steps to enable all the fancy hardware, particularly finishing options such as hole punches and staplers for those with Xerox networked photocopiers.

FirstRound published a collection of useful insights into how SoundCloud has changed its internal communication over the years as the company has grown from scrappy startup into a large multi-country organisation.

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Michelle Wicker writes about how working in tech is different than other fields, and how to survive for the long haul.

John Allspaw writes about attributes that define a “senior” engineer, many of which are universal to technical fields.