Thursday, September 8, 2016

Juno safely completes first of 36 Jupiter flybys and other top stories.

  • Juno safely completes first of 36 Jupiter flybys

    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..
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  • Honor 8 hands-on review

    Honor 8 hands-on review
    THE INQUIRER was at the European launch of the Honor 8 in Paris, and got a chance to get our paws on it. Design It's a not very well kept secret that Honor phones are tweaked versions of their Huawei parent brand's flagships. The difference between this one and the Huawei P9 released earlier this year is that it has a glass finish like the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. We got to hear a lot about how the design was based around 'the language of light', and there's no doubt that the version we got to pl..
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  • 'Fast' Doesn't Tell Us How Fast Your Broadband Is, Telcos

    'Fast' Doesn't Tell Us How Fast Your Broadband Is, Telcos
    The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) says that information about broadband speeds isn’t being communicated to consumers in a clear and upfront way. ACCAN’s submission to the ACCC’s consultation on broadband speed highlights that information provided to consumers about broadband speeds is often confusing and can also be misleading as claimed speeds frequently don’t match reality. “Broadband speed claims are often confusing or misleading for consumers with the use of ter..
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  • Australian cyber crime threats: Four Corners investigates how hackers are hacking into our information

    Australian cyber crime threats: Four Corners investigates how hackers are hacking into our information
    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..
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  • Bing Maps puts Melbourne in the ocean just east of Japan

    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, ..
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  • Scientists return to outside world after year-long Mars simulation in Hawaii

    Scientists 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 ..
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  • Great Barrier Reef Has Been Hiding A Massive New Reef, Australian Scientists Discover

    Great 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..
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  • Jeep India to launch Cherokee, Wrangler and SRT tomorrow

    Jeep India to launch Cherokee, Wrangler and SRT tomorrow
    Come tomorrow and the iconic American SUV manufacturer, Jeep will make its official debut in India for the first time. Along with the launch of the company in India, the automaker will also be launching three of its best selling SUV in our country as well. These include the Wrangler unlimited, the Grand Cherokee and the Grand Cherokee SRT. The manufacturer is part of the Fiat Chrysler group, but as we told you earlier, it will not be selling its cars from Fiat dealerships but rather through sepa..
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  • Mohamed Amin Ahmed, an average man, takes on Islamic State online

    Mohamed Amin Ahmed, an average man, takes on Islamic State online
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Scientists to probe ways of meeting tough global warming goal .4 kg gold nugget found in Victoria, Australia .
India A prevail despite Miller heroics .NASA's Juno spacecraft will snap the first up close images of Jupiter on Saturday .

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