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• Microsoft is building a better HoloLens with a new chip focused on machine learning

  Microsoft's next-generation Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) within the HoloLens will focus on machine learning.

• Wearables far more than 'strapping a smartphone to your wrist'

  Though some predictions around growth in the wearable tech market have been sobering, many fail to factor in the potential for wearables beyond fitness trackers and smartwatches. Fashion is now teaming up with tech to create smart fabrics and accessories in truly wearable designs that don't sacrifice functionality.

• Google Glass: down but not out

  When Google has said it would end its Explorer program for Glass and stop selling the current version to consumers, a few premature obituaries were written for the head-worn device.

• CIO year in review

  2014 was an eventful year for CIOs, with many starting new initiatives in mobility, wearables, machine learning and tapping into open data. Many CIOs also decided to change jobs and move to greener pastures.

• Where is wearable technology heading in 2015?

  More advanced algorithms will pull together different types of data from wearables and these devices will start to enter the workplace next year, analysts have predicted.

• 30 Ways Google Glass Could be Used for Education (and 2 Reasons it Won't)

  Australia's Open Colleges, an online education organization that says it has educated more than 700,000 students and which boasts "more than 100 years of experience in distance learning," recently published an infographic to spotlight 20 potential uses of Google Glass in the education world.

• HBF looks to Google Glass to improve member fitness

  Personal trainers employed by Western Australian health fund HBF are using Google Glass to improve services they provide to the insurer’s members.
  

• Google Adds 5 New 'Glass at Work' Partners

  Last June, Google announced its first set of "Glass at Work" partners, or companies "authorized by Glass at Work for delivering enterprise solutions for Glass." (Find more details on those five companies here.)

• Property firm to shake up industry with mobile apps, Google Glass

  Property management is perhaps an industry where you would least expect to see a great deal of technology innovation. But the local arm of facilities and properties management services firm, DTZ, is an exception.
  

• In Pictures: 10 signs Google Glass is disrupting the enterprise

  Google Glass has had a ripple effect throughout the enterprise world.

• Carnegie Mellon system lets you get to the good parts of video, fast

  While Video has become ubiquitous thanks mostly to smartphones it doesn't mean you want to actually watch all of it.

• Google Glass users to eye travel plans

  Google Glass users can now access and manage flight details and other travel plans using the smart eyewear.
  

• An Internet of Things prediction for 2025 - with caveats

  A massive survey by the Pew Research Center about the Internet of Things in 2025 is very optimistic about the future of the technology. But even though the report seemingly tramples on IoT skeptics, its responses are filled with questions, doubts and caveats.

• Vision and hearing impaired trialling Google Glass apps

  Telstra staff with vision and hearing problems are trialling apps for Google Glass as part of an initiative to understand how to assist people with disabilities to become more independent at home and work.
  

• Google Glass to get a workout from Dutch firefighters

  Can Google Glass help first responders work more effectively? Firefighters in Amsterdam want to find out, and plan to try out the wearable-of-the-moment in training scenarios and at accident scenes.