Donald Trump's new app encourages supporters to donate and earn badges like 'TrumpForce1' and other top stories.

• Donald Trump's new app encourages supporters to donate and earn badges like 'TrumpForce1'

  Donald Trump. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili If you don't already get enough Donald Trump news, then you're in luck: There's an app for that. Trump's America First app was quietly made available in the App Store and on Google Play last week. Supporters of the Trump campaign can use the app to donate, check in at Trump rallies, and keep up with Trump's posts on social media. Every action you do in the app, such as inviting others to join, earns badges like "Appre..

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• The Other Steve: What does Wozniak really think of Steve Jobs?

  

  In the 2015 bio-pic Steve Jobs (not the one with Ashton Kutcher. The other one), Steve Wozniak confronts Jobs, saying "you can't write code, you're not an engineer, you're not a designer ... What did you do?"Jobs replies: "I play the orchestra. And you're a good musician."Wozniak and Jobs go way back. They co-founded Apple in 1976 with almost no money - Jobs sold his van and Wozniak his calculator (it was a good one) to start building their first product. Back then, Wozniak was a shy, bearded e..

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• Microsoft Xbox Onesie: The ultimate in couch potato comfort?

  

  Hot on the heels of the Xbox One S launch, Microsoft has whipped the covers off yet another fresh product. It's designed for serious gamers but it's not 4K compatible, and you can't even plug it into the television. Instead, it's one of the most confounding pieces of branded kit you'll see all year. Ladies and gentlemen, emerge from your dungeons and meet the Xbox Onesie. No, we're not making this up, Microsoft really has created an Xbox Onesie for hardened gamers and serial Netflix bingers. Th..

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• Optus takes cap off Netflix, Presto

  

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• Try out the PlayStation VR at a Westfield near you

  

  The new PlayStation VR system – better known as PSVR – is launching on October 13, but you don’t have to wait until then to give it a go. Sony Playstation is partnering with Westfield to give people a chance to strap on the headset and see what all the fuss is about. EFTM’s own Trevor Long gave it a go a while ago and called it “brilliant” and said he “loved every second of it”. And he’s a hard man to impress. I’ve tried it myself and I’m in the same camp as Trevor: it’s fun, it’s easy to use a..

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• Astronomers just caught a glimpse of a rare, massive star in formation

  

  Astronomers have identified a young star that's already 30 times more massive than our Sun, and it's in our own galaxy, about 11,000 light-years away from Earth. As the young heavyweight continues to collect matter from its parent molecular cloud, researchers hope to observe it reaching 'adulthood', allowing them to better understand how massive stars form in the Universe.  "An average star like our Sun is formed over a few million years, whereas massive stars are formed orders of magnitude fas..

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• myGov portal delivers $200 million of savings to budget

  

  MyGov has streamlined the way people can interact with multiple government services. Brendon Thorne The Turnbull Government believes it has locked in savings of over $200 million from the myGov online portal for clients of a range of government agencies, with around 130 million items processed through the website which might otherwise have involved mail or phone calls.myGov was launched in 2013, promising a single access point to a range of gov..

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• Victorian farmer claims to have grown one of biggest truffles in world

  

  Victorian farmer claims to have grown one of biggest truffles in world Updated August 23, 2016 18:12:49 A farmer in Victoria's Yarra Valley claims to have grown one of the largest truffles in the world, weighing in at a hefty 1.5 kilograms.Stuart Dunbar said the truffle could fetch up to $3,000 on the wholesale market.He said the initial discovery was made by his truffle dog, Lani."With the high temperatures of last Thursday of 21 degrees [Celsius], the dog and I were p..

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