Category: News
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Holy Guacamole!
You would be hard-pressed to find a café in Australia that doesn’t serve avocado. Whether is smashed, spread or sliced, you are bound to see it strewn throughout the menu. Tossed in a salad, smeared on your BLAT or lathered on your vegemite toast – avocado is very quickly becoming an Aussie norm (alongside meat pies,…
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Global Interest in Australian Seabin Invention
An Australian invention aimed to reduce marine pollution is set to go global after becoming a viral sensation, attracting more than 120 million views online. Inventors and water-enthusiasts, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew Turton quit their jobs to come up with a sustainable solution, and succeeded by designing an automated rubbish bin with an electric pump…
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Robots Will Steal 5 Million Jobs by 2020
The World Economic Forum (WEF) have reported that more than 5 million jobs around the world will be lost over the next four years. More specifically, 7.1 million jobs will be lost and 2 million gained due to technological changes. Amongst these developments include robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing. The “Future of Jobs”…
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Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to be Default Search Engine
There have been various rumours about how much Google pays Apple to be the default search bar on the iPhone. A transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp’s copyright lawsuit against Google revealed that Apple received $1 billion from Google. Since 2010, Oracle has claimed their Java technology was borrowed to build Android phones without…
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In-N-Out Burger Popup in Sydney
In-N-Out is a famous californian hamburger chain and it opened its first popup store in Sydney today. Due to the popularity of the chain however it was less of a “In-N-Out” and more of a “Stand-N-Wait” It turns out that the famous popup store sold out even before it opened. In response to the popularity,…
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Worst Passwords of 2015
Many of us hate passwords, especially forgetting them because the sign up process made you pick a password with 2 uppercase characters, exactly 4 lowercase characters (no more, no less) 3 numerals, 6 special c@$e characters and 1 hieroglyph. Who can remember all that? All this is silly, if it is brute forcing you are…
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Twitter – Currently Experiencing Technical Difficulty
Twitter’s dark days of the fail whale returned in a flashback style fashion with most if not all regions experiencing outages on Tuesday. The market responded as expected with stocks closing down nearly 7% at $16.69. The stock was at one stage trading at $16.43 which was a new low for the stock. Twitter was…
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Best Tech of CES 2016
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Clive Palmer’s Nickel Operation Enters Voluntary Administration
Company Directors for Clive Palmer’s Nickel Operation have announced this morning that the company has entered Voluntary Administration. FTI Consulting will be handling the affairs of the company as voluntary administration as of this morning after sacking 237 workers on Friday. The Layoffs came after the Queensland Government refused to loan the company a $35…
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GoPro Stock Tanks – Massive Layoffs
US Camera Company Giant GoPro revealed earnings for the final quarter of 2015 which were not good to say the least. The Company which went public in 2014, predicted 4th Quarter earnings of $435 Million USD and a total of $1.6Billion USD for the year. Reported earnings significantly missed this target with $200Million for the…