Sunday, April 17, 2016

New WA Museum centre honours Harry Butler and other top stories.

  • New WA Museum centre honours Harry Butler

    New WA Museum centre honours Harry Butler
    New WA Museum centre honours Harry ButlerAAPApril 17, 2016 2:32PMSavePrint New WA Museum centre honours Harry ButlerA research facility that will house millions of specimens while the new $428 million Western Australian museum is built has been named after the late Harry Butler.Culture and Arts Minister John Day said it was not well known that the naturalist had decades of association with the museum, including fieldwork collecting and providing financial support.The new $17.6 million research ..
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  • From OS X To MacOS? Apple Website Hints At Possible Rebranding

    From OS X To MacOS? Apple Website Hints At Possible Rebranding
    Rumors about Apple’s possible rebranding of its operating system for the Mac suddenly found traction this week after internet users noticed that the term “OS X” on the company’s FAQ webpage had been replaced with “MacOS.” The change was included in a recent update of Apple’s Environment subsite, under a section where the company discusses its assessment for “Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle.” It is the only instance where the “MacOS” was mentioned as other parts of Apple’s website still use..
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  • Night parrot: In search of one of the world's most elusive birds

    Night parrot: In search of one of the world's most elusive birds
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Saving the Night Parrot Ecologists from Bush Heritage Australia are working to create a safe place for the one-of-a-kind parrot found in Queensland. PT2M23S 620 349 The sun is setting in a remote corner of outback Queensland. As light fades, the drone of determined flies will soon be replaced by the hum of mosquitoes. Ecologist Steve Murphy is standing among the spinifex clumps, sage-green blobs so healthy that they are reminiscent of oversized b..
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  • Naughty Dog cut a scene from Uncharted 4 to release a finished game on time

    Naughty Dog cut a scene from Uncharted 4 to release a finished game on time
    Uncharted 4 will be releasing exclusively on the PS4 May 10 but, according to some of the voice actors from the game, it might be missing some amazing things. Troy Baker, the voiceover artist for protagonist Sam Drake (brother to the last protagonist Nathan Drake) revealed that a scene was cut from the game, in the interest of releasing a finished product on time. In an interview to GamersFTW, Baker said, “Games are a very iterative process, and the same thing can be said for pretty much eve..
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  • Watch a meteor streak across the skies of St. Louis

    Watch a meteor streak across the skies of St. Louis
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - A meteor streaked across the St. Louis area on Friday at about 10:16pm. We received many reports from viewers about the shooting star.  Sightings of the streak of greenish-blue light were reported in four states, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. Two of our web cameras caught a great view of the meteor,  Eckert's in Belleville, IL, and Mattress Direct in South St. Louis County .  In the Belleville view, you'..
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  • VIDEO: Virgin Mobile holds 'world-first' data auction for most post-paid Aussie telco customers

    VIDEO: Virgin Mobile holds 'world-first' data auction for most post-paid Aussie telco customers
    If you’re a Virgin Mobile postpaid customer WITHOUT data rollover activated, or most post-paid customers of Aussie telcos (again without data rollover), Virgin Mobile has a stunning auction stunt that comes with attention grabbing pop! Claiming to be holding a ‘world-first' data auction, Virgin Mobile says that ‘bidding is open to any Aussie telco customer on a Postpaid mobile plan without Data Rollover.’ So, instead of seeing that unused data go to waste, Virgin Mobile wants you to use it ‘a..
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  • Beekeeping a sweet deal for southern Indiana monk

    Beekeeping a sweet deal for southern Indiana monk
    ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (AP) - Some monks brew beer or cobble shoes. Brother Simon Herrmann keeps bees.The 28-year-old monk took over the St. Meinrad Archabbey’s hive last year when he began his three years as a junior monk at the monastery in Spencer County. Each monk has his own job to do to help support the community, and generally the superiors - leaders of the monks - want the brothers to come up with their own work. That way, Herrmann said, they know the monks will be interested in what they’re ..
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