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conviction. Three appeal judges on Thursday found Greg Lynn, 59, had faced a
"substantial miscarriage of justice" and ordered a murder conviction be set
aside. They found the ex-Jetstar pilot's lawyers had proven a number of
irregularities in Lynn's 2024 jury trial over the deaths of missing campers
Carol Clay, 73, and Russell Hill, 74.


The pair had disappeared from a remote campsite in Victoria's High Country,
where Lynn was also camping, in March 2020.


Lynn was remanded in custody and will face the Supreme Court for a directions
hearing on January 28. His lawyers could apply for Lynn to be released on
bail ahead of a fresh trial.

(bbc/abc/guardian)

WA Health is set to build a new statewide data platform and trial an AI
system to optimise patient flow and bed availability.


The data platform will be used to strengthen how patients are supported from
presentation through to discharge, the state government said.


Data from the platform will feed a live dashboard to give hospitals a clearer
view of demand, capacity and patient movement across the entire public health
system.


Meanwhile, the AI system will be piloted at Royal Perth Hospital from winter
2026 to predict length of stay and streamline hospital workflows to improve
bed availability.


The AI pilot is backed with $700,000 in funding and will be delivered with
the assistance of the Office of Digital Government.


The [AI] technology will schedule key tasks such as medical imaging,
laboratory tests, pharmacy medication packs, and preparing discharge
summaries, helping hospitals to coordinate care more efficiently, the state
government said.


If successful, there are plans to deploy the AI system at other hospitals.
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Samsung: 98,000 handsets with triple zero call issues still 'active'

Zachariah Kelly writing in itnews.com.au reveals about 98,000 Samsung
mobile handsets in need of software updates that will allow them to make
emergency calls reliably are still connecting to Australian networks,

the device maker has revealed.

Samsung told the parliamentary inquiry into the September Optus triple zero
outage that 1.6 million devices had successfully been updated, but that its
investigations had found that a further 98,000 remained "alive and active".


Samsung Australias mobile division Eric Chou told the inquiry that the phones
can still make emergency calls on Optus and Telstra networks.

However, he confirmed that they have a firmware configuration that only allow
them to use TPG Telecom's shuttered Vodafone-branded network to place
emergency calls.


Telstra and Optus '[networks] as of today can actually still take emergency
calls on those devices [without the software update]. Its only in incidents
where there is no Telstra coverage, no Optus coverage, where those [not
updated] devices would need to rely on the Vodafone 3G network which no
longer exists, Chou said.


Australian carriers shutdown their 3G networks in early 2024.

That means that if any one in distress tries to use one of the 98,000
unpatched handsets to place an emergency call when Telstra and Optus' mobile
networks are not available, the call will not reach triple zero operators.

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Kolkata:

The ham radio operators in Bengal have been able to facilitate the return of
a mentally challenged man from Bangladesh to India.


Sudam Hembram originally hailing from Odisha has been estranged from his
family for 15 years.


A non-governmental organization based in Bangladesh that works in rescue and
rehabilitation of mentally challenged persons had contacted Ambarish Nag
Biswas of West Bengal Radio Club -- an organization of ham radio enthusiasts
in Bengal some days back and informed that they have been spotting Sudam
roaming aimlessly in and around Golabari station area for the last eight
years.


PMR446, the popular short-range UHF radios enjoyed in much of Europe, could
be enjoyed much less in Germany after changes enacted by the regulator
BNetZa. The regulator will prohibit operators from using any external
antennas with their radios and from using the radios as base stations.


PMR operators will also lose the ability to use their radios as repeaters or
as Internet gateways -- two functions widely available to amateur radio
operators. The PMR radios, which operate on 16 frequencies within the 446 MHz
band, will be only be permitted to be used for so-called "peer-to-peer" or
person-to-person mode.


Last Friday, December 12, the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland (MRCN)
and its sister club, the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club (PARC) in England
commemorated Marconis first transatlantic wireless experiment in
collaboration with the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
(IEEE) and hosted by the Memorial Universitys Johnson Geo Centre.


This year was the 124th anniversary of Marconis first transatlantic wireless
experiment and, to mark this, a 2-way radio station installed

at the Johnson Geo Centre a few hundred metres from the site where Marconi
conducted his famous 1901 experiment on Signal Hill sprung into life.

They presented on Marconi and radio art and science followed by a workshop
whereby participants will be constructing crystal radios then exchanged

greetings with colleagues in Villa Griffone, Cape Cod, and Glace Bay via
Amateur Radio.


In the afternoon a direct 2-way High Frequency radio contact with
colleagues in Poldhu to receive the letter S and send radio telegrams from
officials of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial
University, and the NL section of the IEEE.


NASA is once again offering the public a chance to fly around the Moon by
submitting their names for inclusion on a digital boarding pass that will
travel aboard Artemis II.


The names will be stored on an SD card inside the Orion spacecraft when four
astronautsundertake the first crewed flight of the Artemis program in 2026,
yep it IS next year!


Sign-ups and details are available at the link we like in the written word
edition of this your WIA NATIONAL NEWS.


www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/.

Whilst looking further than INTERNATIONAL, Time on Mars runs slightly faster
than on Earth, according to new calculations by NIST researchers,

who found that clocks on the Martian surface gain about 477 microseconds per
day relative to terrestrial time.


The difference arises from Mars weaker surface gravity, highly elliptical
orbit, and changing distance from the Sun and the EarthMoon system, all of
which alter the rate at which clocks tick under general relativity.


Although the offset amounts to less than a millisecond per day, modern
navigation and communication systemssuch as GPS and future Mars-based
networksrequire timing precision far tighter than a microsecond. The effect
is also not constant: depending on Mars orbital position, the daily time gain
can vary by as much as 226 microseconds. As planning advances for autonomous
rover operations, relay satellites, and eventual crewed missions, engineers
will need to incorporate these relativistic corrections to prevent timing
drift and data inconsistencies



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