Thursday, September 8, 2016

Jeep launches special edition 75th Anniversary models and other top stories.

  • Jeep launches special edition 75th Anniversary models

    This looks quite the party in the desert, what's it all about? It's been 75 years since the Americans created an icon, and there's cause for celebration. Willys produced the first model we recognise today as a Jeep with its wartime MA and MB models in 1941, and at war's end offered we common civilian folk a version called the CJ-2A. Voila! A 4x4 SUV for work and lifestyle. And guess what, we're still buying 'em today.   So Jeep are up to something to mark the occasion? Absolutely, and ..
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  • Bing Maps puts Melbourne in the ocean just east of Japan

    Bing Maps puts Melbourne in the ocean just east of Japan
    Online map services have made for some very memorable gaffes, from Apple Maps' disastrous directions that sent people through rivers and into deserts, to the Google Maps error that led workers to demolish the wrong house. Not to be outdone, Microsoft's Bing Maps was recently found to have misplaced an entire city.When someone at IT industry news site The Register tried to locate Melbourne on Microsoft's Bing Maps last week, the Victorian capital wasn't even displayed in the correct hemisphere, ..
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  • Panasonic and Sony to develop high-res 8K televisions

    Panasonic and Sony to develop high-res 8K televisions
    All-Japanese alliance: Panasonic will work with Sony to develop 8K television sets by 2020. — AFP Japan is looking to boost its tech offering ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, as Panasonic and Sony partner with broadcaster NHK to develop televisions with 8K video, reports Nikkei.  The all-Japanese alliance will focus on creating the ultrahigh-resolution televisions in a market dominated recently by South Korean and Chinese competitors. Televisions with 8K resolution would double the c..
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  • Australian cyber crime threats: Four Corners investigates how hackers are hacking into our information

    Australian cyber crime threats: Four Corners investigates how hackers are hacking into our information
    Four Corners ?Cyber War?0:29Cyber security adviser Kevin Mitnick demonstrates how easy it is to hack into a bank account using a fake wifi network. CREDIT: Four Corners, ABC Former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who spoke to Four Corners. Picture: ABCShoba Rao and wiresNews Corp Australia NetworkONE of the world’s most infamous, former computer hackers has revealed how easy it is to hack into a bank account, as Australia faces serious cyber threats. In a special report on cyber crime, Four Corners spoke..
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  • Honor 8 hands-on review

    Honor 8 hands-on review
    THE INQUIRER was at the European launch of the Honor 8 in Paris, and got a chance to get our paws on it. Design It's a not very well kept secret that Honor phones are tweaked versions of their Huawei parent brand's flagships. The difference between this one and the Huawei P9 released earlier this year is that it has a glass finish like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. We got to hear a lot about how the design was based around 'the language of light', and there's no doubt that the version we got to pl..
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  • 'Fast' Doesn't Tell Us How Fast Your Broadband Is, Telcos

    'Fast' Doesn't Tell Us How Fast Your Broadband Is, Telcos
    The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) says that information about broadband speeds isn’t being communicated to consumers in a clear and upfront way. ACCAN’s submission to the ACCC’s consultation on broadband speed highlights that information provided to consumers about broadband speeds is often confusing and can also be misleading as claimed speeds frequently don’t match reality. “Broadband speed claims are often confusing or misleading for consumers with the use of ter..
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  • Great Barrier Reef Has Been Hiding A Massive New Reef, Australian Scientists Discover

    Great Barrier Reef Has Been Hiding A Massive New Reef, Australian Scientists Discover
    Australian scientists discovered a massive reef hiding behind the country’s famous Great Barrier Reef using laser data from the Royal Australian Navy. The data showed great fields of unusual donut-shaped circular mounds.Scientists from the James Cook University, University of Sydney and Queensland University of Technology using high-resolution seafloor data from the Royal Australian Navy’s LiDAR-equipped aircraft found that the unusual mounds were at least 200-300 meters wide and up to 10 meters..
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  • How Smartphones Are Helping Australia's Deafblind Community Reconnect

    How Smartphones Are Helping Australia's Deafblind Community Reconnect
    Instead of collecting dust in a drawer, your old smartphone could be used to assist on of the 288,000 Australians living with no hearing or sight use technology to reconnect with family, friends and the wider community. Not-for-profit mobile phone recycling program MobileMuster is collecting unwanted smartphones during the month of September to be donated to Able Australia, where they will be used to educate people with deafblindness on how to use speech recognition and Braille readers. Please..
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  • Juno safely completes first of 36 Jupiter flybys

    Juno safely completes first of 36 Jupiter flybys
    Space science has had a very remarkable year, not counting the advances made in launching and landing rockets. Just a little over a year ago, New Horizons made history by passing the former planet Pluto. And just last month, the Juno probe reached fame when it finally reached Jupiter. It, too, is now making history has NASA reported a successful and uneventful flyby of the planet. And although it is just the first of 36 flybys scheduled for its mission, it takes the probe closest to the largest..
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