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Friday, 13-September-2013 14:08:20 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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DX are giving away a robust RC helicopter airship thingy.. hopefully more robust than the last couple I've given to my 6yo boy!
Malcolm Turnbull has responded to the NBN petition, which has 218,000 signatures and counting. For those who don't have time to read our policy (but time to sign an online petition) there are a few important points to bear in mind. We do not regard technology as an ideological issue. We are technologically agnostic. We want to ensure that all Australians have very fast broadband as soon, as cheaply and as affordably as possible.
The BBC report on the Minecraft phenomenon. The community of people involved with the game numbers in the tens of millions. Many of those fans are children, mainly boys, aged between nine and 15 - among whom it is almost a religion. By way of example, someone has made the original Pokemon games in Minecraft.
Steam have announced family sharing. Steam Family Sharing allows close friends and family members to play one another's games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer. More here.
NASA have announced that Voyager 1 has officially left the building.. err, the Solar System. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. More info here, and despite it the furthest man-made object from Earth, we can still see it. These radio telescopes cannot see Voyager 1 in visible light, but rather "see" the spacecraft signal in radio light.
Closer to home, you can track an autonomous boat as it crosses the Atlantic. Just over 100 miles out from the coast of Rhode Island, an autonomous drone boat called Scout has already broken records for the farthest unmanned voyage, and its designers hope to set a much bigger one by using it to perform the first unmanned transatlantic crossing. The best part? You can follow the robo-boat on its voyage online via a handy Transatlantic Tracker.
Twitter have quietly announced their IPO. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.
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