Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Aspendale climate research lab to lose 32 staff in CSIRO restructure and other top stories.

  • Aspendale climate research lab to lose 32 staff in CSIRO restructure

    Aspendale climate research lab to lose 32 staff in CSIRO restructure
    Workers at the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Centre in Aspendale meeting with Federal member for Isaacs Mark Dreyfus about job cuts to the CSIRO. Picture: Valeriu CampanANGRY climate change scientists have taken to the streets after at least 32 jobs at the Aspendale CSIRO lab were axed, in a move insiders fear could spell the end of the world-leading research centre.CSIRO Community and Public Sector Union organiser Dr Michael Borgas said “essentially that decision has already been made”...
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  • Queensland police officer points gun at man caught speeding

    Queensland police officer points gun at man caught speeding
    A suspended Queensland police officer who was filmed pointing his gun at a man caught speeding is fighting to have his pay re-instated.Senior Constable Stephen Flanagan was driving on the Landsborough Highway near Longreach in May last year when he clocked a ute driving at 126kmp/h in a 110kmp/h zone.In a video tendered to the Supreme Court, obtained by the ABC, the officer doesn't use his siren but instead beeps at the ute driver repeatedly in an effort to pull the car over. The driver slows d..
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  • Facebook Messenger major security flaw discovered

    Facebook Messenger major security flaw discovered
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: AP A major security flaw that allowed hackers to change chat history in Facebook's Messenger app, potentially spreading malware or engaging in fraud, has been revealed.The bug allowed hackers to change code in the app – both desktop and mobile versions – and alter the text of past messages. A YouTube video demonstrates this in action.Security firm Check Point, whose researcher Roman Zaikin discovered the flaw, said hac..
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  • Overwatch review: 7 million people can't be wrong

    Overwatch review: 7 million people can't be wrong
    Tank hero D.Va spends most of her time riding a powerful mech, but can trigger a self-destruct to scatter enemies, continuing the fight on foot. A competitive, team-based, online multiplayer shooter, Overwatch has all the ingredients of a game I would usually avoid like the plague. Yet in the weeks and months prior to its release, the sheer volume of internet chatter about this new title from Blizzard — creators of World of Warcraft, Diablo III and many others..
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  • Mystery over first Australians finally solved

    Mystery over first Australians finally solved
    Skeleton of an Aboriginal man dug up in Lake Mungo in 1974 has been confirmed to be Aboriginal. Picture: Supplied.FRESH research has refuted previous scientific claims that ancient Aboriginals were not the first people in Australia. Scientists from Griffith University’s Research Centre for Human Evolution (RCHE) have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were indeed the first to inhabit the continent, disputing an earlier landmark study that claimed to recover DNA sequences from the..
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  • Volkswagen Adds Manual Transmission To Golf GTI 40 Years Edition

    Volkswagen Adds Manual Transmission To Golf GTI 40 Years Edition
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  • Efforts to save koalas have failed: Queensland

    Efforts to save koalas have failed: Queensland
    The Queensland government admits efforts to save koalas are failing and will turn to scientists to salvage what's left of once healthy populations. A dire scientific report, commissioned by the government, has found koalas are effectively extinct in parts of the state's southeast corner. The government hopes $12 million in next Tuesday's budget can arrest the catastrophic population decline recorded over the past 20 years. The South East Queensland Koala Population Modelling Study found number..
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  • The storms took out Amazon customers like Foxtel and Domino's, highlighting a key risk with the cloud

    The storms took out Amazon customers like Foxtel and Domino's, highlighting a key risk with the cloud
    Australian businesses have been warned they need to spread the risk in their cloud computing operations across different regions after the Sydney storms on Sunday knocked out the operations of numerous Amazon Web Services customers. The ferocious storms that hit NSW, left AWS clients including Domino’s Pizza, Foxtel, The Iconic, Stan and Domain without websites or key systems for hours. It served as a warning that sending systems to the cloud, rather than hosting them on-premise, did not remove..
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  • Melbourne's Zero Latency VR Is Opening In Japan, Thanks To Sega

    Melbourne's Zero Latency VR Is Opening In Japan, Thanks To Sega
    10 months after it opened its free-roam virtual reality warehouse space in Melbourne, Zero Latency is expanding beyond Australia’s borders. Thanks to a new partnership with Sega’s amusement park division, a custom Zero Latency VR setup will bring “the world’s best virtual reality experience” to Tokyo. Nearly 10,000 participants have walked through the door of Zero Latency’s North Melbourne warehouse, and the small startup was recently named one of the world’s 10 most innovating gaming companies..
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