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Julian Assange has launched a political party in Australia. Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblowing website, said the WikiLeaks Party would field seven candidates for upper house Senate seats in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. Despite being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than a year, the 42-year-old will run in Victoria, saying he planned to be "an independent scrutineer of government activity".
Meanwhile Clive Palmer is going to build the world's biggest dinosaur park in QLD. The Sunshine Coast regional council voted unanimously to approve the plans which include 149 life-size dinosaur models to join the already existing eight-metre tall T-Rex named Jeff, and a vintage car museum, all within the grounds of Palmer's Coolum resort.
Swiftech have apparently withdrawn their H220 cooler from the USA market due to a patent dispute from Asetek. On July 12, 2013, AseTek responded and stated that the company does not offer licenses on its patents. Swiftech says that it continues to firmly assert its position that it is not infringing on any patents but in an effort to avoid costly litigation, they have decided to pull the H220 CPU Cooling Kit from the US market.
Sydney Water managed to spend $7.1M on their website, and the Finance Minister wants to know why. Sydney Water Managing Director Kevin Young says its previous website was not able to provide its 4.6 million customers with safe, reliable and efficient service. "After a rigorous tender process, Sydney Water established a new website earlier this year along with other IT capabilities at a cost of $7.1 million, which was 42 per cent lower than quotes received in the tender process," he said in a statement. More here.
Three 4K monitors makes for some awesome gaming over on Tested. It started with three 4K Sharp panels running at a combined resolution of 11,520x2160. They fed the displays video from an ASUS AMD HD 7970 DirectCU II card, which features four DisplayPort connections and 3GB of GDDR5. That card, by itself, was just barely up to the task of delivering 30 frames per second in Dirt3 at high settings.
Honda have made a cool reproduction of a Senna lap using telemetry and an audio-visual setup around the track. Using telemetric data Honda has recreated Senna’s record-breaking 1989 lap of Suzuka in light and sound as part of an incredible video posted on the company’s website.
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