Bing Maps puts Melbourne in the ocean just east of Japan
Online map services have made for some very memorable gaffes, from Apple Maps' disastrous directions that sent people through rivers and into deserts, to the Google Maps error that led workers to demolish the wrong house. Not to be outdone, Microsoft's Bing Maps was recently found to have misplaced an entire city.When someone at IT industry news site The Register tried to locate Melbourne on Microsoft's Bing Maps last week, the Victorian capital wasn't even displayed in the correct hemisphere, ..>> view originalScientists return to outside world after year-long Mars simulation in Hawaii
A group of scientists have returned to the outside world after they spent the last year living on "Mars" - without leaving Earth.Three men and three women, from countries including the US, Germany and the UK, were sent into isolation in a mountain-top dome in August 2015 to simulate what it would be like to live on the red planet. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Mars scientists emerge from simulation Knife attacks at Notting Hill Carnival ..>> view originalHonor 8 hands-on review
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Four Corners ?Cyber War?0:29Cyber security adviser Kevin Mitnick demonstrates how easy it is to hack into a bank account using a fake wifi network. CREDIT: Four Corners, ABC Former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who spoke to Four Corners. Picture: ABCShoba Rao and wiresNews Corp Australia NetworkONE of the world’s most infamous, former computer hackers has revealed how easy it is to hack into a bank account, as Australia faces serious cyber threats. In a special report on cyber crime, Four Corners spoke..>> view originalJeep launches special edition 75th Anniversary models
This looks quite the party in the desert, what's it all about? It's been 75 years since the Americans created an icon, and there's cause for celebration. Willys produced the first model we recognise today as a Jeep with its wartime MA and MB models in 1941, and at war's end offered we common civilian folk a version called the CJ-2A. Voila! A 4x4 SUV for work and lifestyle. And guess what, we're still buying 'em today. So Jeep are up to something to mark the occasion? Absolutely, and ..>> view original[ August 28, 2016 ] 2016 Holden Commodore SV6 Sportswagon Review Car Reviews
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Space science has had a very remarkable year, not counting the advances made in launching and landing rockets. Just a little over a year ago, New Horizons made history by passing the former planet Pluto. And just last month, the Juno probe reached fame when it finally reached Jupiter. It, too, is now making history has NASA reported a successful and uneventful flyby of the planet. And although it is just the first of 36 flybys scheduled for its mission, it takes the probe closest to the largest..>> view originalGreat Barrier Reef Has Been Hiding A Massive New Reef, Australian Scientists Discover
Australian scientists discovered a massive reef hiding behind the country’s famous Great Barrier Reef using laser data from the Royal Australian Navy. The data showed great fields of unusual donut-shaped circular mounds.Scientists from the James Cook University, University of Sydney and Queensland University of Technology using high-resolution seafloor data from the Royal Australian Navy’s LiDAR-equipped aircraft found that the unusual mounds were at least 200-300 meters wide and up to 10 meters..>> view original
Thursday, September 8, 2016
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