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lukehopewell1 writes:
There's no doubt that Apple Maps needs to be fixed, but the sooner the better according to Australian police, who have been wading into a remote national park to save motorists steered deep into the forest by the new iOS 6 navigation software.
Police say that several motorists have already been rescued, adding that some had to walk for up to 24 hours through the forest just to find cell signal.
Motorists are getting lost in the park because Apple Maps has mislabelled the location of a regional town that is actually situated 70 kilometres away.
Until Apple fixes the issue, Australian police are telling users not to navigate using iOS 6 maps.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
After three years of trying to pass a controversial plan to filter the internet from Refused Classification (material rated above X) content, the Australian Government has tonight finally walked away from its plans to subject the country's internet users to a mandated "clean-feed".
Instead the government will now compel Australian internet service providers to implement a filter that blocks out only the material listed on Interpol's blacklist.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
Prometheus is one of the better looking science fiction films of the last 10 years, and the visual effects studio behind some of the visuals has revealed that Ridley Scott was inspired by both the F-22 Raptor fighter jet through to the iPad and even right down to the Mac OS X app dock.
How are visual artists in film influencing the next generation of consumer devices like smartphones and tablets?
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lukehopewell1 writes:
Julian Assange has dominated the headlines over the last 12 months, and as he waits in legal limbo, his origin story has been spun into a biopic for Australian television.
Normally these things look decidedly average, but Underground: The Julian Assange Story looks great.
It tells the story of Assange's very first leaks back in 1989 in Melbourne, Australia, and how even back then, the US government were chasing him.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
There seems to be a misunderstanding here, everyone. There’s a story going round that Samsung paid the $US1.05 billion penalty set by a US court for copying Apple gear by carting 30 truckloads of five-cent coins to 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino today. Let’s stop talking about this right now.
That’s right. The fun fact you may have been parading around the office all week is a hoax, purported by a site very similar to The Onion. The site where the reports originated is called El Deforma and it’s a satirical news site based in Mexico.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
When your iDevice is stolen with iCloud enabled, logic dictates that you fire up Find My iPhone to track the device down with the help of law enforcement, right? Well not if you're in Australia, it seems, where an iPad user who tracked his device to the alleged thief's garage is being accused of "trespass via radio wave" for activating an alarm on his iPad to flag the device as stolen.
The trespass claims are being pushed despite the fact that a warranted raid on the alleged thief's house by police uncovered several allegedly stolen laptops and even a police badge reportedly missing since 2009.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
3D printer tech has evolved rapidly over the last decade. We've seen everything from phone cases to weapons, but now a Professor at the University of South Carolina has built a concept printer that can build you a house that's three times stronger and half the price of your current house.
It's called Contour Crafting and the best part is that it can build you a 2500sq. ft. house in 20 hours.
The technology is so impressive, in fact, that NASA has partnered with the professor to develop the technology into something the space agency can use to build roads, radiation shields and buildings on the Moon.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has already floated a plan to rebuild the Titanic to scale and sail it around the world, but now the mining magnate has found a new use for his money: cloning dinosaurs.
Palmer reportedly wants to clone a dinosaur and let it loose in one of his resorts in Queensland, Australia. The billionaire has already been in touch with the scientists who helped clone Dolly the sheep to see what it would take to clone a dinosaur from DNA.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
In just four short days, 3 million Apple users around the world have shelled out their $US20.99 to get a copy of Mountain Lion. That makes Mountain Lion the most successful OS release in Apple's history. Thanks to the record, Apple is promising goodies.
Many were disappointed however about the lack of Facebook integration with Mountain Lion, especially in the nifty Notification Center bar. Apple's now pledging in its public statements that Facebook integration will arrive soon as a software update.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
After the threats, admissions and delays, hacktivists protesting a data retention scheme proposed by the Australian Government’s National Security Inquiry have begun dumping data gleaned from an Australian telco — presumably AAPT.
Anonymous is in the process of dumping government and business customer data onto Pastebin for the world to see under the guise of Operation Australia. This episode is far from over, however. We’re likely to see more data trickle out over the coming days, considering that the group has promised 40GB worth of leaks.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
Remember how Kim Dotcom had his mansion raided by New Zealand police, who subsequently seized 150 terabytes of data and passed it to the FBI for analysis? The High Court of New Zealand has now declared that the warrants that allowed that to happen are illegal, adding that the sending of his data overseas for analysis was also outside the law.
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lukehopewell1 writes:
The Raspberry Pi is a triumph in computing, and it's now set to become a triumph in robotics as one developer plans to build a model boat around it and sail it across the Atlantic Ocean, completely unmanned.
It's codenamed "FishPi" and will see a model boat sail across the Atlantic all by itself save for a camera, GPS module, compass and solar panels. It's only a proof of concept right now, but if this guy set it up on Kickstarter and offered a live stream of the crossing, I'd be opening my wallet.
