Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Baby NZ seals take RAAF flight to freedom and other top stories.

  • Baby NZ seals take RAAF flight to freedom

    Baby NZ seals take RAAF flight to freedom
    Baby NZ seals take RAAF flight to freedom
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  • Dolphin calf spotted off Cairns wrapped in marine debris

    Dolphin calf spotted off Cairns wrapped in marine debris
    Marine experts fear for a dolphin calf with marine debris wrapped around its body spotted off Queensland's coastline two weeks ago.James Cook University's Dr Isabel Beasley was conducting marine survey work when she spotted the calf with a pod of dolphins near Yorkey's Knob on September 30. Dr Beasley hasn't seen the dolphin for more than two weeks. Photo: Isabel Beasley "The calf looked healthy, in good condition, and was swimming normally, however, it appears the marine debris is wrapp..
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  • Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban

    Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban
    On Saturday the federal flight ban on Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones went into effect in the United States. All four major Australian carriers have also banned the phone. We asked our readers how this was working out around the globe and from the replies we’ve received, it’s safe to say that, so far, this sucks. The US Transportation Department’s decision to ban the Note7 from all flights came just days after Samsung announced that it was killing the phone for good. That short window left little ..
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  • Google Pixel: Australian Review

    Google Pixel: Australian Review
    Google built a phone. For real this time. AU Editor’s Note: Since Google’s Daydream View VR headset won’t be available in Australia until November, we’ve kept any mention of it out of this review entirely. Stay tuned for a proper review of Google’s own VR headset in the days before you can actually buy it. Also, throughout this review, I’ll be talking about the Pixel and Pixel XL interchangeably since apart from their screen sizes and resolutions (5 inches, 1920×1080 pixels / 5.5 inches, 2560×1..
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  • Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy

    Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy
    Edward Chester reader comments 34 The all new Samsung 960 Pro, released today, is the follow up to last year's 950 Pro. It offers the same core set of features, with an M.2 form factor, four-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, NVMe communication standard, and 3D V-NAND. But the 960 Pro isn't just a minor spec bump. Samsung has seriously cranked up the speed (and capacities) of its flagship drives to the point where such ludicrous performance may be lost on all but the most demanding of users. These a..
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  • Apple smart-car project stalls

    Apple smart-car project stalls
    Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to make a car. Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesRod ChesterNews Corp Australia NetworkTHE dream of an Apple Car has just hit a dead end with reports the technology giant has scrapped its plans to build a self-driving vehicle and has slashed hundreds of people from the clandestine Project Titan.Apple reporter Mark Gurman yesterday broke the news that the top-level research team working on a car as Apple’s next big thing was being dismantled.Apple has never pu..
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  • NBN claims "lightning speeds" over copper with XG.FAST

    NBN claims
    The NBN has deemed its trials of XG.FAST a success after achieving speeds of 8Gbps over copper lines in the lab.The emerging technology could be deployed in a number of settings, the NBN said, including multi-dwelling units (MDUs) in a fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) scenario or via a distribution point unit (DPU) in a fibre-to-the curb (FTTC) based network.The lab trials, conducted with vendor Nokia, achieved speeds of 8Gbps over 30 metres of twisted-pair copper cable – the kind typically used be..
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  • Thousands of critically endangered 'scrotum frogs' found dead in Peru's Lake Titicaca

    Thousands of critically endangered 'scrotum frogs' found dead in Peru's Lake Titicaca
    Thousands of critically endangered 'scrotum frogs' found dead in Peru's Lake Titicaca Updated October 18, 2016 21:47:27 Authorities in Peru are investigating the deaths of more than 10,000 critically endangered Titicaca water frogs, whose bodies were found floating in the waters of Lake Titicaca.The Committee Against Pollution of the Coata River reported the deaths, blaming pollution in the river that feeds into the lake, according to the BBC.Peru's environmental agency..
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  • Infertility Treatment Breakthrough as Scientists Build Embryos From Stem Cells

    Infertility Treatment Breakthrough as Scientists Build Embryos From Stem Cells
    This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.Scientists have for the first time shown that fully mature egg cells can be grown in the lab, raising hope for new infertility treatments.Until now, researchers have only been able to produce cells that resemble sperm or eggs, but which can rarely produce live offspring because of abnormal organisation of their genetic material. But a team at Kyushu University, Japan, has now turned stem cells from mice into mat..
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  • Australian Scientists Just Made Quantum Computing 10 Times More Stable

    Australian Scientists Just Made Quantum Computing 10 Times More Stable
    Australian engineers have created a new quantum bit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically expanding the time during which calculations could be performed in a future silicon quantum computer. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. VIDEO The new quantum bit, made up of the spin of a single atom in silicon and merged with an electromagnetic field — known as “dressed qubit” — retains quantum information for much longer that an “..
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