NBN chair defends taking action over leaks and other top stories.

• NBN chair defends taking action over leaks

  NBN chair Dr Ziggy Switkowski has defended the government-owned company taking action against leaks of internal documents. NBN management's decision to refer the leaks to the Australian Federal Police led to raids on the homes of Labor staffers and an office of Senator Stephen Conroy.The raids by the AFP followed a string of leaked documents that revealed challenges for NBN’s ‘multi-technology mix’ rollout, including details on copper remediation costs, the state of the Optus HFC network, and..

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• Climate change threatens U.N. World Heritage sites

  

  The catastrophes seem like the stuff filmmaker Roland Emmerich’s dreams are made of: In the United States, Yellowstone National Park morphs from thick woods to sparser brushland in the aftermath of frequent and furious forest fires. In Italy, Venice sinks beneath a swelling Adriatic Sea. In England, Stonehenge tumbles to the ground when the local mole and badger populations explode, and their burrows weaken the earth beneath the 5,000-year-old rock monuments. None of these disasters are cer..

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• iPhone 8? Leak Seems To Confirm Rumors Of An All-Glass Casing

  

  An iPhone 8 leak seems to confirm rumors that Apple will ditch the aluminum casing and produce an iPhone completely encased in glass. The leak springs from Allen Horng, who is the CEO of Catcher Technology, which has been providing Apple with its iPhone chassis for several years. According to Forbes, Horng stated, “Apple will make its 2017 iPhone using a glass casing.” Rumors about Apple using a glass case for the iPhone have been floating around since as far back as the iPhone 5. The recent st..

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• Your child IS on Snapchat. You need to know

  

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• 'The Last Of Us 2': Naughty Dog Now Developing The Survival Game Sequel?

  

  Now that the final installment of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series has been available for a little over two weeks, there has been increased speculation that the gaming studio has begun working on the sequel to 2013’s smash hit, The Last of Us. There was what some are calling a teaser for The Last of Us 2 in the epilogue of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. The supposed teaser can be found in Cassie’s – the daughter of Nate and Elena – bedroom after you finish playing Crash Bandicoot for the second time..

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• Sharks too have distinct personalities: study

  

  Just like humans, sharks too have individual personality differences with unique preferences and behaviours, scientists have found for the first time. Researchers from the Macquarie University observed the behaviour of sharks from the east coast of Australia and found that individual sharks had distinct and consistent responses when exposed to an unfamiliar environment and stress. In humans, personality defines who we are and how we are likely to respond to certain situations. If y..

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