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Australia Is Building a Pee-Powered Ion Thruster

Our current level of technological prowess is severely hindering efforts to explore the solar system. Nine months to get to Mars—who’s got that kind of time? If a new breed of ion thruster currently...

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Watching 100 Sharks Bite Chunks Out of Dead Whale on a Beach Is Frighteningly...

Australia is well known for its sharks; if you’re surfing off the coast there’s always a chance you’ll bump into one of the depth’s scariest predators. But about 100 of them going gangbusters devouring...

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Goodbye Productivity, Hello Lego!

Now you can play with mountains of Lego, all day while at work, and you don’t even have to tidy up afterwards. Lego have partnered up with Google Chrome to create a Lego sandbox virtual world in a web...

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Desert Town Wakes Up to Find Giant Lego Garden Grown Overnight

The citizens of the desert town of Broken Hill were surprised when they woke up to this surreal scene: giant Lego trees and flowers—66 times bigger than the actual pieces—had grown everywhere...

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First Jelly Bean Rollout Stymied By Emergency Call Issues

The new version of Android, Jelly Bean, was to be officially rolled by a carrier for the first time this week in Australia. Sadly, Vodafone couldn’t see it through, because the new OS failed to meet...

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A Crazy Australian Businessman Is Trying to Make a Real-Life Jurassic Park

Obviously Clive Palmer, the eccentric Australian billionaire, hasn’t learnt anything from the film; he is determined to create a cloned dinosaur for an actual, in-the-flesh, Jurassic Park. That’s not...

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You Can Now Buy a Prototype Hoverbike For Just £54k

Some of you may remember last year’s awesome hoverbike by Chris Malloy that we all looked at with awe and fists full of money, but it was still in the testing stage. Well, Chris has been working hard...

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These Are the Cigarette Packages of the Future

It’s official: after rejecting the tobacco companies’ appeal, the High Court of Australia has declared the country’s new obligatory cigarette packaging law constitutional. Look at them above—starting...

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See an Australian TV Network’s Bonkers Julian Assange Wikileaks TV Movie

This is a trailer for Underground: The Julian Assange Story. And yes, it is serious. Australian TV station Network Ten is behind it, promising to capture and wildly exaggerate the thrills of the...

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Australian “Sex Party” Gets a Headache About Google Ad Ban

There’s a political party in Australia that calls itself the Sex Party. We are not sure what it stands for, but its members are rigid with fury with Google and Facebook for refusing to run their...

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Watch This Tornado of Fire Swirl Around the Australian Outback

For 40 minutes, a bush fire burning across the Australian Outback swirled in a terrifying and breathtaking column of pure flame. The tornado of fire was caught on camera by Chris Tangey, of Alice...

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iPhone 5 Launch Scandal: Apple Accused Of Ignoring Queue To Find Its Own...

Sydney’s flagship Apple Store threw its doors open at 8am local time this morning to the sound of thunderous applause. Those at the front of the queue who had been queueing for three days entered the...

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This Spectacular Sea Tornado Will Shrink Your Gonads

Sea tornados off the coast of Australia are not new. But this one is particularly striking and huge. It was filmed this Sunday at Batemans Bay, in New South Wales. Sea tornados happen when a funnel...

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Google Found Guilty of Libel Over Refusal to Remove Search Result Links

A big hole has been punctured in Google’s usual defence against libel, with an Australian court throwing out the search giant’s argument that it’s just a listing tool. All because it didn’t remove a...

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Australian Police Warns the Public Not to Use iOS 6 Maps

It’s been official for a while now: iOS 6 Maps suck. Everyone from Tim Cook to my mother knows it, but now it’s getting scary. Victoria Police are advising people not to use iOS 6 Maps due to safety...

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Apple Shows It Can Fix Things Pretty Quickly, When It Actually Wants to

After the Australian police waded in over crappy Apple Maps sending people into the middle-of-bleeding-nowhere to die, Apple’s already fixed the issue. Apparently it wasn’t all Apple’s fault, but it...

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Google Maps Might Kill You as Well

Oh, how we laughed when Australian police warned users against using Apple Maps. Stupid Apple! Stupid, rubbish Apple. Except now they’ve warned against using Google’s mapping tool as well, in case it...

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Australia’s Now Hot Enough to Vaporise Petrol

Forget frying eggs on the sidewalk, never mind the new heat index colors, Australia’s record-setting heat wave is so insanely intense that in some areas drivers can no longer refuel their vehicles...

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It’s Less Expensive to Fly to the US and Buy Adobe CS6 Than to Buy It in...

Adobe may be trying its best to skirt the issue of crazy high prices in Australia, but it’s going to be hard as long as news outlets like News.com.au keep pointing out that it is actually cheaper to...

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True Blue, The Aussie Prime Minister Has Written a Mini-Review of Google...

Our cousins down under somehow hoodwinked PM Julia Gillard into writing about her “remarkable experience” using Google Glass. Can you imagine the uproar if David Cameron slipped a pair on and found...

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