You may have heard aboutaugmented realitybefore. If you haven’t, you’ll be hearing a lot about it from now on, with the smartphone and tablet revolution now in full-swing. Augmented reality (AR) is a term used to describe a live view of a physical, real-world environment that is augmented by computer-generated sensory input, such as sound or graphics. A typical AR environment has digital information transposed onto a real-world view. AR is not to be confused withvirtual reality(VR), which is an entirely digital experience that mimics real-world situations....

Berlin startupAupeoturns your iPad into a personal radio station with a beautiful, lightweight and amazingly fast new app. For very good reasons, music streaming services have become extremely popular. While you for sure know about Spotify, last.fm and Pandora, chances are, you haven’t heard about Aupeo yet. This is despite the fact that the company’s music discovery services come preinstalled on more than 25 million devices, amongst them Sonos popular wireless home entertainment products....

Luck is indeed tough for Kylie Maree Monks, a 33-year-old Australian woman, after being sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a SIM card from a utility meter, and is in debt of US $190,000 in charges. The Mercury, an Australian news publication, reports that Monks recently pleaded guilty to computer-related fraud, receiving stolen property, and one count of making a false declaration. She was charged after reportedly stealing a SIM card from a power meter that had a wireless data connection to Telstra’s wireless broadband network....

This article was originally published bySarah WrayonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The Australian state of Victoria is investing AUS$33.7 million (US$25.9 million) in ‘distracted driver’ technology which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect motorists that are using mobile phones at the wheel....

Last month the Australian Space Agencyannouncedplans to send an Australian-made rover to the Moon by as early as 2026, under a deal with NASA. The rover will collect lunar soil containing oxygen, which could eventually be used to support human life in space. Although thedeal with NASAmade headlines, a separate mission conducted by private companies in Australia and Canada, in conjunction with the University of Technology Sydney, may see Australian technology hunting water on the Moon as soon as mid-2024....