Geoscience Australia moves to update maps as the continent is drifting north at 7cm a year and other top stories.

• Geoscience Australia moves to update maps as the continent is drifting north at 7cm a year

  

  It should be exactly here ... Pokemon GO players meet at the Sydney Opera House. Picture: GettyJamie SeidelNews Corp Australia NetworkWALKED into something while playing Pokemon Go? It may be the GPS’ fault after all: Australia’s on the move, and it’s starting to cause problems for science, farmers — and self-driving cars. Australian government research and mapping service Geoscience Australia has begun the task of redrawing the map.Our continent’s edging its way northwards at a rate of 7cm a ye..

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• Nick Xenophon calls for first-person shooter video games to be defined as gambling

  

  In what could prove a world first, an Australian politician is seeking to have games such as the hugely popular Counter-Strike series defined in law as gambling. Nick Xenophon, the independent senator for South Australia, on Sunday announced a bid to have multiplayer first-person shooter games defined as gambling in an update to the current Interactive Gambling Act of 2001. “This is the Wild West of online gambling that is actually targeting kids,” Xenophon told Fairfax Media. Counter-Strike: G..

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• Microsoft Rolls Out Xbox Summer Update: Cortana, Background Music, Windows 10 Games On Xbox Live And Much ...

  

  Microsoft has started rolling out the latest system update for the Xbox One and the Xbox app, named the Xbox Summer Update, bringing with it a massive list of new features and improvements to the gaming console. Almost all of the features that were a part of the Xbox Summer Update Preview, released in early June, were included in the official update, along with a few new additions. Here are all the contents of the Xbox Summer Update: Launch Of Cortana Cortana has now been made available for the..

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• Uber is not decreasing drunk driving deaths, according to study

  

  During the 4th of July weekend, Uber partnered with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and local law enforcement agencies in 25 U.S. cities to raise awareness about drunk driving. The ride-hailing company said that in surveys it has conducted more than 80 percent have reported that Uber helps them avoid drunk driving. That could be true, but a new study doesn’t show much impact on drunk driving fatalities in cities where Uber operates, according to CNN Money. The study was published in the Am..

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• Watch A Huge Swarm Of Vehicles Pave A Road In Russia

  

  Watch A Huge Swarm Of Vehicles Pave A Road In Russia Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. VIDEO Video: There are so many dump trucks, pavers and road rollers paving Moscow’s Tverskaya Street in this time lapse that it looks like a massive swarm of machines have taken over Russia. The smaller road rollers look and move a lot like the little planes that launch from the mothership (which, in this case would be the dump trucks). Dmitry Chistoprudov says that, “about 8000 tons of asphal..

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• Microsoft Slashing Nearly 3000 Jobs in Phone Business

  

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