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There are many immersive apps out there that we use for video streaming or gaming that take up a lot of space and use a lot of our battery life, but messaging apps are simple lines of text that take seconds to send. By reducing Messenger’s core code by 84 percent – going from 1.7+ million lines of code to 360,000 – simple actions like opening the app, downloads and updates are now much faster for everyone. There is no longer the three base tabs, Chats, People and Discover, instead only Chats and People. As of now, when in a chat, there is still the camera, photos and microphone icons, except on the far left instead of the four dots that would prompt users to location, games, reminders, etc, there is now a plus sign.

As the event’s signature installation, the FP-Z5000 ultra-short throw projector equipped with the world’s first folded two-axial rotatable lens is projecting the colourful, mesmerising installation. The team responsible for providing and installing the projection equipment on Yabarra – Dreaming in Light had several ideas for how the setup would look and what it would need. In the Yabarra – Dreaming in Light installation the projectors have remained stable and consistent throughout, with the colours bright and vivid,” said NovatechMD Leko Novakovic. The Yabarra – Dreaming in Light installation is available at the Adelaide Fringe festival until March 15.

After the destruction of the recent bushfires in what is now described as Australia’s Black Summer at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, it was estimated that a staggering 1.25 billion native Australian animals had died with numbers continuing to rise. On World Wildlife Day (March 3, 2020), Port Macquarie Koala Hospital presented ‘Wildfires and Wildlife’ to the UN, to remind us of the animals that have been endangered at the hands of the fires. The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Jackson Wild also joined forces to organise an international film showcase that will highlight wildlife as a part of the Earth’s biological diversity. In Australia, all species have lost habitat due to the catastrophic fires over the summer,” said Cheyn Flanagan, Clinical Director for the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital.

Women Love Tech exclusively interviewed Chief Customer Officer of SAP SuccessFactors, Marc Havercroft, about how to encourage more women in STEM and more specifically how women can step up and make a mark in such a male-dominant industry. There are a number of ways that we can help women in tech advance, but I’d say that the number one thing is that it’s on the individual to take the opportunity when it comes, to drive themselves forward. If you’ve got concerns about learning, I’m sure that any woman can look back on their career and think of all the things that they’ve learnt on the fly, quickly, and can do fantastically. So, what I would say very much about the STEM side of things and women is allow them to apply and be positive in your skills and competencies to apply for that, and make sure that we’re looking for those things as the key attributes that we’re looking to hire.