The perfect body to survive a high-speed crash and other top stories.

• The perfect body to survive a high-speed crash

  Humans have adapted and evolved to meet all sorts of challenges over the ages, but surviving a car accident is not one of them. Hypothetically, some version of modern man could survive a big crash, but he's certainly not pretty. Everyone, meet Graham. Alright, lets get this out of the way. Graham is seriously ugly, but he's ugly for good reason. Created as an educational tool, he's designed to push the Victorian Traffic Accident Commission's (TAC) anti-speed message to students. "People can su..

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• Apple says that Pokémon Go was downloaded more times in its first week than any other iPhone app in history

  

  The “Pokémon Go” phenomenon is real. Apple confirmed to Tech Insider Friday that the app had more downloads its first week than any other app in the App Store’s eight-year history. Even more impressive: “Pokémon Go” was only available in the US, Australia, and New Zealand that first week, so most of the world didn’t even have a chance to download it. “Pokémon Go” has slowly rolled out to other countries over the last few days. However, Apple did not give specifics on how many “Pokémon Go” downl..

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• The history and future of protecting the Great Barrier Reef

  

  The Great Barrier Reef is under considerable strain, with coral bleaching the latest in a number of environmental pressures having an impact. So does the reef's status as a World Heritage site actually help to protect it?Those who spend time on the Great Barrier Reef have noticed stark changes within their lifetimes.'I can remember doing my first ever dive on the Great Barrier Reef ... when I was 17 and thinking that this was just magnificent and how could you ever fish something like this out?..

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• Facebook's internet-broadcasting drone takes to the skies for the first time

  

  Connecting the entire world to the internet by way of solar-powered drones with fricking laser beams attached to their heads sounds more like an Austin Powers plotline than an actual business strategy, but for the folk at Facebook's Connectivity Lab it isn't so far-fetched. In its quest to provide remote regions with affordable internet access, the team recently conducted its first successful full-scale testing of a critical piece of the puzzle, an internet-broadcasting drone called Aquila that..

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• Census fakers 'will wreck figures'

  

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• IoT Is Changing How Businesses Work And Driving New Processes

  

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• A Pokémon Go Player Claims He's Already Caught Them All

  

  You may be a Pokémon Go fanatic, but chances are you haven’t taken long walks around the greater New York City Area—often in excess of eight hours—after working all day long. But that’s exactly what Nick Johnson did to catch all of the 142 Pokémon that are currently available in the U.S., according to Business Insider. In a Reddit post on Wednesday, Johnson announced the completion of his collection. The post didn’t go without a few skeptics, however, who questioned if he truly caught them all,..

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