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Pair face charges over supermarket ram raids in Launceston

A man and a teenager from northern Tasmania have been charged over supermarket ram raids in and around Launceston last month. Supermarkets in West Launceston, Norwood and Evandale were burgled and a supermarket in Youngtown was destroyed ... >> view original

Climate change is threatening to turn the world's male reptiles into females

Bearded males be warned: climate change could be turning you into a pack of girls, at least if you're a lizard. Scientists at the University of Canberra will on Thursday release a study showing rising global temperatures pose a serious risk of turning ... >> view original

Apple is upending the international data roaming game

Data roaming was once one of the great pain points of traveling. Slowly, but surely, it is easing up—and perhaps going away all together. A short history, for the uninitiated: first, the EU proposed legislature to end roaming on the European continent ... >> view original

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has a battle to convince Leonardo DiCaprio on ...

HE may have won over world leaders but Environment Minister Greg Hunt may have a tougher battle convincing Leonardo DiCaprio Australia is no longer the “Wild West” sheriff of the Great Barrier Reef. Yesterday, there was a unanimous vote and even ... >> view original

Google apologises after Photos app tags African people as 'gorillas'

Google has apologised after its photos app automatically tagged African people as 'gorillas.' The issue was first highlighted by Twitter user @jackyalcine who posted a picture of her friends that had been tagged as Gorillas. Google Photos ,which was ... >> view original

Sea Shepherd shifts focus down the food chain

Conservation group Sea Shepherd has changed its target - it no longer wants to save the whales but their food. It claims human consumption of krill as a health supplement has led to overfishing and it's calling for a boycott of a leading health ... >> view original

Want an IPv4 Internet address? Get in line

The stockpile of unused IPv4 addresses in North America has fallen so low that there's now a waiting list. On Wednesday, for the first time, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) had to tell an applicant for new Internet addresses to wait. >> view original

iPhone 6S leak hints at faster LTE, better battery life

While we wait for the dust of the Apple Music launch to settle down, we take a peak at another of Apple's most awaited product, as if it ever had a non-awaited product. Courtesy of a brave leak source, we now have a view of what is supposedly the ... >> view original

Microsoft delivers an inflationary blow to Australian cloud aspirations

Just as Oracle have slashed pricing for some cloud solutions to 10% of previous prices in a surprise announcement last week, Microsoft has announced that it needs to put Australian Azure prices up. Technology · THE NEWS WRAP: Intuit sacks 399 ... >> view original

Bass Strait's artificial structures seal the deal for hungry fur seals

A study looking at the feeding behaviour of Australian fur seals in Bass Strait has found the animals benefit from the shipwrecks, pipelines and cables in their underwater world. The researchers found these structures act like artificial reefs ... >> view original