Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Shark Mitigation signs pro surfer Burrow and other top stories.

  • Shark Mitigation signs pro surfer Burrow

    Shark Mitigation signs pro surfer Burrow
    Professional surfer Taj Burrow with models Michaela Wain and James Yates wearing Shark Mitigation Systems’ specially designed wetsuits, which it says sharks can't see. Picture: Tim Hunter.PROFESSIONAL surfer Taj Burrow has thrown his support behind recently listed shark deterrent Perth-based company Shark Mitigation Systems.Mr Burrow has signed on as an ambassador of Shark Mitigation Systems and will promote and work on the company’s technology, which is designed to detect sharks and to prevent ..
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  • Minecraft cracks down on in-game paid advertising

    Minecraft cracks down on in-game paid advertising
    Changes to Minecraft's Commercial Usage Guidelines that primarily impact “advertising agencies and corporations” are not the sort of thing that we normally worry about around here. But Mojang's Owen Hill, who's formerly of this parish, said in a blog post today that it's enough of a “hot topic” to bring to wider attention, to let people know that the changes “won’t affect the usual server and video monetization.” “The number of Minecraft players has grown massively over the past few years. In f..
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  • MySpace confirms mega breach

    MySpace confirms mega breach
    MySpace confirms mega breachSocial networking site MySpace may not quite have the same appeal as Facebook but its user data is still lucrative enough to fetch a price on the dark web.Myspace’s latest owner Time Inc., which acquired the site from Viant earlier this year, has confirmed that a large chunk of user data — stolen in 2013 — is now up for sale.According to paid hacked data search engine, LeakedSource, the data set in circulation 360,213,024 records, which may contain an email address, a..
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  • NBN: Labor to offer 'greater proportion of fibre', still not sold on FTTN

    NBN: Labor to offer 'greater proportion of fibre', still not sold on FTTN
    Labor leader Bill Shorten has offered new hints at the shape of the NBN policy that his party will take to the election.“What we will do is we will have a greater proportion of fibre in our solution on NBN,” Shorten said during an interview with ABC Radio. “We’re not going to rip up everything the Liberals have done,” he added.Labor wouldn’t “start again at scratch,” Shorten said.However the National Broadband Network under a Labor government would have “much more fibre,” he said. The oppositio..
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  • CBA's David Whiteing says quantum computing will solve problems 'in seconds'

    CBA's David Whiteing says quantum computing will solve problems 'in seconds'
    David Whiteing says quantum computing will fundamentally change the way humans think about computers. Wayne Taylor Quantum computing has the potential to bring about a "paradigm shift" not just in banking, but in how society understands computing, Commonwealth Bank chief information officer David Whiteing says.Speaking at the Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference on Wednesday, Mr Whiteing said the bank was making investments in both..
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  • Apple to ditch frustrating 16GB storage in new iPhone 7: report

    Apple to ditch frustrating 16GB storage in new iPhone 7: report
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Buffett bets $1 billion on Apple Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed it has invested more than a billion dollars in Apple. PT1M17S 620 349 Apple is rumoured to be ditching one of the most complained-about features of the modern iPhone: the paltry 16GB storage of its base model.The new iPhone 7, expected to be released in September, will come with a minimum storage capacity of 32GB, according to Kevin Wang, an analyst at IHS Technology ..
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  • Kogan Says Its New High End Smartphone Is 'Comparable To The Galaxy S7'

    The Agora 6 Plus is Kogan’s flagship high end smartphone, and at $349 comes complete with a fingerprint sensor, aluminium body and NFC technology. “Its features are comparable to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S7,” Kogan says, “but for a fraction of the cost.” The Kogan Agora 6 Plus comes with Android 6.0, a 5.5-inch FHD IPS display, 21MP rear camera (with a Sony IMX230 Sensor), 8MP front camera, dual SIM, and Helio P10 Octa-Core Processor (MTK6755, 4 x 2.0GHz, 4 x 1.2GHz). “This is the best ..
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  • The BMW 8 Series is back! New GT range to include M8 supercar

    The BMW 8 Series is back! New GT range to include M8 supercar
    The BMW 8 Series is set to return with an all new model to rival the Mercedes S-Class Coupe as a large, luxurious grand tourer. Trademark applications with the global intellectual property regulators reveal that BMW has already started the basic prep work. In late March it applied to strengthen its control of a string of 8 Series-related names, including 825, 830, 835, 850, 845, 860 and M850. • BMW 6 Series to morph into new Porsche 911 rival A BMW insider has confirmed to Auto Express that the..
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  • Bleaching kills third of coral in Great Barrier Reef's north

    Bleaching kills third of coral in Great Barrier Reef's north
    SYDNEY — Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of the coral in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, scientists said on Monday. Researchers who conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 1,400-mile reef off Australia's east coast found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying, said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Ex..
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PM 'raw' after meeting 6yo cancer patient .Wallabies suit up on Sunshine Coast .
NBN chair defends taking action over leaks .Fire deemed suspicious as house left damaged .

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