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Eat Drink Shop Bendigo 2.0

Early Christmas shoppers are being encouraged to throw their support behind Bendigo businesses this weekend as the Eat Drink Shop Bendigo campaign strikes up for another round. Campaign manager Kathie Bolitho is urging people to buy a thoughtful ... >> view original

Astronomers detects clusters of young stars in the Milky Way

A group of astronomers have discovered a component that was previously unknown in our home galaxy, Milky Way. There is a thin disc of stars in the middle region that is buried behind thick dust clouds. The middle of the galaxy, which was earlier ... >> view original

Volvo sets its sights on Skippy

Volvo has sent two engineers from Sweden to study kangaroos in an attempt to build the first kangaroo detection and collision avoidance software for cars. The two spent yesterday at Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, filming kangaroos at the start of a two ... >> view original

Google Chrome OS to be rolled into Android

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, pictured with images of mobile devices bearing the Chrome logo. Google is merging its stripped-down Chrome operating system – not to be confused with the popular Chrome browser – into its Android software for ... >> view original

Kim Dotcom is building an encrypted, peer-supported internet

Eccentric entrepreneur and privacy advocate Kim Dotcom is building his own private internet, allegedly safe from the prying eyes of surveillance authorities. Via video link at Sydney's SydStart conference this week, the web mogul explained that ... >> view original

An Orca Puts On A Show, As It Slings A Seal Into The Air

It's a bad time to be an animal lover, because an orca puts on a show, as it slings a seal into the air. The orca in question is called T69C, it's the only male whale in its group and it was born in 1995. He was captured on video by a photographer ... >> view original

Antarctic marine reserves gain China's support

Agreement on the creation of marine reserves to protect some of Antarctica's great natural treasures is a step closer, with a shift by key fishing power China. The Chinese government told a meeting in Hobart it could support a joint United States-New ... >> view original

Gaming on the Surface Book: What you need to know

One of the big selling points of Microsoft's new Surface Book laptop is that it offers an optional Nvidia graphics card in higher-end models. With a distinct lack of game-ready graphics hardware in most 13-inch laptops, that immediately caught the ... >> view original

The newly overhauled Apple TV is not just for video, photos and music anymore ...

THE fourth-generation Apple TV has hit the shelves and it leaves its predecessors for dust. For those not acquainted with the previous models, it's not actually a television made by Apple, even though that is what the name suggests. Apple TV is a set ... >> view original

Liberal candidate Alan Sexton resigns from party over 'inbred Arab brain ...

A candidate in the NSW Liberal state executive elections has resigned from the party after being caught mocking what he calls the "inbred Arab brain" in a Facebook post. Alan Sexton, a western Sydney anaesthetist, made the comment in response to an ... >> view original