New 'Cute Spiders' Discovered in Australia and other top stories.

• New 'Cute Spiders' Discovered in Australia

  

  Spiders are like nightmares for many, but there are people who are passionate about things that others don't like. A scientist's passion for peacock spiders has led to the discovery of seven new species of “cute spiders.” Peacock spiders are eight ...

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• NBN Co wants ACCC approval for variations to Special Access Undertakings

  

  NBN Co wants to vary its Special Access Undertakings (SAU) to include fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-basement and hybrid fibre coaxial technologies to which the SAU will apply. The SAU governs the price, terms and conditions under which NBN Co will supply wholesale services over the national broadband network and the company has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to vary the SUA which has been in operation since it was accepted by the ACCC in December 2013.The ACCC publ..

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• Optus SDN lets resellers buy bandwidth by the hour

  

  Optus Wholesale has released a software-defined networking product to its channel, dubbed Cloud-N. "Optus Cloud-N is a white-label solution and allows partners to rebrand the SDN service as their own and resell it using their retail rates. The portal can be accessed from any device via the internet,” said Optus Wholesale marketing and strategy head John Castro. The service allows partners and end users to instantly dial up and dial down bandwidth within the Optus network on an hourly consumptio..

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• 'Catastrophic avalanche' of space junk could wipe out satellites within years

  

  An artist's impression of space junk orbiting the Earth. Illustration: Johan Swanepoel The world's navigation and communication networks are at risk of being brought down by a "catastrophic avalanche" of space junk, researchers have warned.The rapid build-up of space junk orbiting Earth is a serious threat to satellites, which are crucial for everything from global positioning systems and mobile phone calls to television broadcasts and weather forecasts.And de..

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• How this startup is going to power the future of IoT

  

  The Internet of Things holds incredible promise – sensors embedded in everything from shipping pallets to cars and fridges, passing on data and making everything “smart”. The data could be varied — temperature, location, condition and activity among them. The uses are innumerable. But for all of this potential to be realised, there has to be a way to connect it all. A system to allow millions of little sensors to easily and cheaply network. This is the opportunity an Australian startup called ..

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• new app helps hipsters find home

  

  Push bikes and pourover coffee at the original Williamsburg in Brooklyn New York. Every city has a Williamsburg. A hipstertown. A coolsville. They can be hard to find, and talking to locals can produce differing opinions, but a new app called 'Where is Williamsburg' aims to make it a whole lot easier for hipsters to find a home.Named after the laid-back neighbourhood in Brooklyn, the app is designed to help travelling US hipsters find the nearest place to get ..

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• Hyundai i30 N development car finishes the Nürburgring 24hrs

  

  With Hyundai preparing to release a hot-shoe i30 via its N performance arm, an Hyundai i30 N development car has successfully completed the Nürburgring 24hrs.CONSIDERED THE toughest endurance race in the world, last weekend’s Nürburgring 24hrs provided the backdrop for further testing of the new Hyundai i30 N. “The endurance race at the Nürburgring is the toughest race in the world,” said Albert Biermann, Head of Vehicle Test & High Performance Development and former BMW M vice president of engi..

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• Counterfeit parts with Toyota branding found in China

  

  Toyota Australia worked with Chinese police to discover a counterfeit parts manufacturing operation.The FCAI (Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries) has announced that around 33,000 counterfeit parts have been found during a police raid in of large-scale manufacturing facility at Guangzhou, China. The FCAI also says there “were around 55,000 packages branded as Toyota Genuine Parts, complete with barcodes and serial numbers.” Out of this haul it is not known what percentage of the parts were ..

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• Great Barrier Reef dominates election campaigning

  

  Day 22 of the federal election campaign saw the opposition leader return to Queensland, while the Prime Minister made a second visit to western Sydney with promises of more funding for an initiative linking schools with private business. An environmental icon may have been the big winner of today's announcements. Both the coalition and Labor admit saving the Great Barrier Reef from devastating bleaching will require action on climate change. Labor's committed funding for the Reef, as bleaching ..

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