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(link) Thursday, 7-January-2016 14:05:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Dick Smith have entered receivership, which means bad news for anyone with a gift card or layby. The biggest impact for most Australians, though, will be for anyone who scored a DSE gift card for Christmas, or has put down some cash against a lay-by. Whether or not they'll be honoured is unclear - the administrator Ferrier Hodgson says not, but they may not have the last word on it, given various consumer-protection regimes.
Maybe we should all be investing in Lego instead. Lego is a beloved toy brand, not an investment vehicle that’s part of many people’s portfolios. Only, maybe it should have been. Since the year 2000, the Danish building blocks have actually appreciated better than numerous investments.
Microsoft are ending support for IE 8, 9 and 10. Microsoft recently announced another step that puts Internet Explorer that much closer to oblivion. Beginning next Tuesday, January 12, Microsoft will officially retire Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10 for most Windows operating systems, according to a Microsoft support page. Internet Explorer 11 will be the only officially supported version of the browser for Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
Qantas recently flew a 747 with five engines. What you might not know is that the 747 has the ability to carry a fifth engine, fitted between the body of the aircraft and the inner-most engine on the port (left) side of the aircraft. The extra engine isn’t powered up for the flight – we’re essentially ferrying across a very large spare part from our engineering HQ in Sydney so it can be fitted to one of our other Boeing 747s in Johannesburg. We’re undertaking this rare task to get our customers and our aircraft on their way as quickly as possible – rather than shipping the engine across by boat or chartering a freighter aircraft.
CES is underway at the moment, with Day 1 and 2 on APHNetworks, NVIDIA's autonomous driving on HotHardware and CES Unveiled (press conference) coverage on ThinkComputers.
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