Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Ferrari sports-cars recalled in Australia due to faulty Takata airbags and other top stories.

  • Ferrari sports-cars recalled in Australia due to faulty Takata airbags

    Ferrari sports-cars recalled in Australia due to faulty Takata airbags
    Documents show takata concealed airbag testing failures1:30Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal outlining practices dating from 2000 to 2010, show employees' concerns that Takata concealed testing failures and provided erroneous data in reports to Honda Motor Co. on some of its air-bag inflaters. The interior of the Ferrari 458 Italia. Picture: SuppliedJoshua DowlingNews Corp Australia NetworkEVEN the most expensive cars on the road aren’t exempt from safety recalls.Italian sports-car ..
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  • It looks like Samsung Pay is coming to Australia next week

    It looks like Samsung Pay is coming to Australia next week
    Apple Pay rival, Samsung Pay, looks set to launch next week in Australia on Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The company’s website is currently taking registrations to notify people when it becomes available. It has mid-2016 listed as the intended launch date in Australia, with an announcement set down for early next week. The contactless mobile payments service launched in South Korea in August last year, followed by the US in September and is also about to be released in Singapore with Citibank as..
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  • Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?

    Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
    This week the Productivity Commission released an issues paper as part of an inquiry into the adequacy of [Australia’s Universal Service Obligation (USO) for telecommunications, in light of changes in technology and demand. The USO was formulated in a different age when the internet was in its infancy. Today, its requirement to provide access to standard telephone services and payphones to all Australians is akin to mandating the availability of horse and buggies by carmakers operating in the a..
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  • Google Is Giving $4.5 Million To Aussie Tech Non-Profits

    Google Is Giving $4.5 Million To Aussie Tech Non-Profits
    Google Is Giving $4.5 Million To Aussie Tech Non-Profits Have a bright idea about how you can use technology to improve the lives of people around you? Google’s Impact Challenge has just opened its application process for 2016, and the search engine giant will be giving away six-figure grants to 10 non-profit finalists who can dream up ideas for technology to solve “the world’s most pressing challenges”. Google kicked off the 2016 Impact Challenge with a post on its official Australian blog ov..
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  • Game review: Kirby: Planet Robobot sucks, but in a good way

    Game review: Kirby: Planet Robobot sucks, but in a good way
    Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS) – the Kirbster gets even more OP Nintendo’s cutest mascot gets his own giant robot suit, but will his new platform adventure please any but the youngest gamers? Never mind the BFG or mini-nuke, Kirby himself is clearly the most powerful weapon in any video game. On the face of it he’s just an especially saccharine-looking platform hero, but his ability to inhale enemies and steal their powers allows him to do everything from fire laser beams from his eyes to spit fir..
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  • "Hey Siri, call an ambulance."

    Child's life saved after mum cries out: 'Hey Siri, call an ambulance' Video will begin in 5 seconds. iPhone's Siri helps save baby girl's life When Stacey Gleeson saw her daughter had stopped breathing, an unlikely hero came to her aid- Siri, the voice-activated computer program. Courtesy Seven News. PT1M27S 620 349 "Hey Siri, call an ambulance."These words may have saved one-year-old Giana Glesson's life.One evening in March, her mother Stacey noticed Giana had stopped bre..
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  • New Xbox, PlayStation consoles for E3?

    New Xbox, PlayStation consoles for E3?
    The biggest annual event in the video games calendar is expected to see Sony and Microsoft go head-to-head with new consoles.Beginning next week in Los Angeles, the E3 convention brings together the major manufacturers and developers in gaming for a series of events to showcase upcoming titles and hardware, allowing visitors to see and play them for the first time.Microsoft and Sony - the makers of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 respectively - are expected to unveil new versions of their flagshi..
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