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Thursday, 27-June-2013 20:12:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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One of the OCAU-relevant aspects of the political upheaval last night is that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has resigned. Stephen Conroy, Greg Combet, Craig Emerson and Peter Garrett have resigned from their positions within the Labor ministry following a leadership spill which returned Kevin Rudd as the party's leader. Mr Conroy was minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy and also Labor leader in the Senate. Unlike colleagues who announced their resignation by email, Senator Conroy's office sent a tweet. Discussion here.
He's not alone - Mark Webber is leaving Formula One at the end of this year. The Australian Formula 1 pilot Mark Webber has signed a contract with Porsche that extends over several years. From the 2014 season he will compete in Porsche’s new LMP1 sports prototype at the Le Mans 24 Hours and in the sports car World Endurance Championship WEC. More info here, discussion here. Actually I noticed just the other day he has an officiall screensaver linked on his site.
The CSIRO have announced a DVD capacity breakthrough, thanks ikonz0r. In Nature Communications today, we, along with Richard Evans from CSIRO, show how we developed a new technique to enable the data capacity of a single DVD to increase from 4.7 gigabytes up to one petabyte (1,000 terabytes). This is equivalent of 10.6 years of compressed high-definition video or 50,000 full high-definition movies. No idea when it will turn up in the real world, though. Discussion here.
Richard Dawkins has made a fairly bizarre speech/presentation recently. It's about genes, memes and the internet, and goes a bit strange at the end, no doubt in order to spread around the internet itself, on blogs and.. websites like OCAU. Curse you Richard, you've outwitted me again!
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