Today would have been Eddie Mabo's 80th birthday. Image Credit: Google and other top stories.

• Today would have been Eddie Mabo's 80th birthday. Image Credit: Google

  Warning: this story contains references to deceased Aboriginal persons. TODAY, GOOGLE CELEBRATES the life and activism of Aboriginal lands rights activist Edward Koiki Mabo, who would have turned 80. Eddie, a Meriam man from the Murray Islands in the Torres Straits, was born on 29 June 1936. He went on to become a leading Indigenous activist in a historic 10-year court case that came to be known as the Mabo decision. The case overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius; the belief that, prev..

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• Thanks to Microsoft's New Offer, Students will now save $300 on Purchase of Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One

  

  Microsoft’s latest bait for students to buy a Surface Pro 4 is the Xbox One. Yes, you read it right Microsoft will be offering students a free Xbox one with Surface Pro 4. Microsoft is literally discounting the Surface Pro 4 by $300 which corroborates with the free Xbox One. The deal is up and running starting from today and will extend all the way up to August 14.   The offer comes on the heels of Microsoft discontinuing the Surface 3 lineup, a device that would have otherwise appealed to t..

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• Volkswagen Group Australia:: critics "ignoring polar differences" in regional 'dieselgate' cases

  The managing director of Volkswagen Group Australia, Michael Bartsch, said today that key differences in regional laws and regulations, in relation to the ongoing ‘dieselgate‘ scandal, are being ignored. Speaking today after news of a massive $20 billion settlement with Volkswagen owners and government departments in the United States, Bartsch said: “It is regrettable that interested parties ignore the polar differences between emission regulations in the United States and Australia. This only..

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• Telstra to spend $200m to improve network

  

  Telstra pledges another $200m to networkTelstra will spend a further $200 million on improving its network following a string of outages that have damaged the telco giant's reputation.The investment comes on top of $50 million Telstra pledged in May.Australia's biggest telco recently completed a thorough review of its core network and IT systems, pinpointing sources of "potential risk", chief executive Andrew Penn said in a blog on the company's website.The money will come from Telstra's existin..

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• System Shock Remake on Kickstarter, Almost Halfway to its $900K Goal in Less Than a Day

  

  A remake of the PC sci-fi first-person classic System Shock just launched a Kickstarter and is asking for a whopping $900,000. Astonishingly, since going live yesterday at 3 p.m. EST, it’s already raised over $400,000 at the time of this writing. The game, simply titled System Shock, is a complete, from-the-ground-up remake, while keeping the structure, gameplay and story as close to the original as possible. System Shock is being developed by Nightdive Studios, and includes veterans from the o..

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