German ‘Stonehenge’ a slaughterhouse

SITES such as Stonehenge are older than memory itself. Stories of Druids and magical rites arose long after the standing stones true purpose was forgotten.

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New clues in ‘devil coins’ hoax

WORKERS on a renovation project at Bath Abbey in the UK made a startling discovery when they removed seating in the ancient church — a pair of mysterious coins depicting a devil were beneath the row of seats.

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Take the tribe on rough stuff

Re the Kia Carnival road test. I just picked up my eighth Carnival in 11 years and can safely say they handle the Outback with ease. I’ve done the trips to prove it. Managed over 1500km on dirt the last couple of trips. All I’ve had over 400,000km and counting are some flat tyres and two broken screens. Love them!

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Russian stealth subs headed here

MOSCOW’s been boosting its presence in the Asia Pacific. It’s been sending bombers on visits to Indonesia. Its fleet regularly exercises with the Chinese. Now its sending reinforcements — in the form of two new stealth submarines.

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Japanese rocket bursts into flames

A ROCKET developed by a Japanese start-up company burst into flames seconds after a failed lift-off Saturday in northern Japan.

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Pollies’ big data use ‘harmful’: ACCC

EXCLUSIVE

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School-run hatch is race-ready

Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. That’s the long-held philosophy behind the marketing power of motorsport, from the greenest of grassroots all the way up to F1.

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Micra, a box of smarties

The Micra was long a favourite as a first car, city runabout or retiree special and it was somewhat sad when Nissan dropped it from the line-up in April 2016.

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Asher Keddie loves the classics

GOLD Logie winner Asher Keddie has always had a thing for classic cars. At first it was her dad’s racing green MG — “a pretty cool car, although it did break down a little” — then the 1970s “beautiful off-white” Mercedes-Benz that followed.

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Silicon Valley Renegades Take On Tech ​Obsession

Some of the engineers and designers who helped build our most commonly used technology​, including Aza Raskin and Tristan Harris, ​are fighting back against how it’s taking over our lives. ​Photo Illustration: Laura Kammermann/The Wall Street Journal

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Big stores refusing to axe plastic bags

ALL eyes are on the supermarkets this weekend as the July 1 plastic bag ban comes into force. But two huge retail names are holding firm and refusing to bin the bags.

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Picture reveals sick online secret

A SIMPLE Google search was all it took to bring one teen’s world crashing down around her, and reveal a horrific online secret that still haunts her five years later.

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Massive driving cost you’re wasting money on

WHEN you break down or your car won’t start, the panic can quickly set in.

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A Competitive Eater Explains Unlimited Smartphone Plans

Confused by those unlimited data plans from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint? Competitive eater Carmen Cincotti helps WSJ's Joanna Stern explain the ups and downs of an all-you-can-eat deal.

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The rockets that are changing everything

FRIDAY morning at 5.24am in the US, a rocket owned by SpaceX will blast off from Florida carrying two and a half tons of gear from NASA, only to dock three days later and 400km above Earth at the International Space Station.

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Jurassic Park game fulfils your dreams

THE only thing better than running your own theme park has to be running your own theme park full of dinosaurs.

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Free taxi ride if you can sing

TAXI passengers in Finland will soon be able to ride for free — as long as they are prepared to sing for the driver.

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Meet the $299 Apple Watch killer

AT FIRST glance you might be fooled into thinking this product is an Apple Watch, but it’s actually a much cheaper alternative.

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Fears over Chinese giant’s mission

THE word Huawei may have been cropping up on your news feed a fair bit recently.

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Topless waitress’s Instagram tirade at ‘criminal’ slur

TOPLESS waitress Nateesha Barlin, who once boasted she kept the “whole Central Coast” supplied with human growth hormones, has lashed out at being called “a criminal”.

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How Facebook shifts Aussie cash offshore

WHEN an Australian business seeking more local customers clicks “boost post” on Facebook, the money it pays — as much as $1 billion a year — goes to low-taxing Ireland or the US.

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Mystery blue sand found on Mars

MARS is universally known as the Red Planet, but a stunning photograph released by US space agency NASA has revealed the complexities of its colour palette.

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Study shines light on alien mystery

ET HAS not yet phoned home because he may not be smart enough to know how to do it. Or simply put, he may not exist at all.

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Astrological supershow set for July

AN ASTROLOGICAL supershow will have Aussies cracking out their cameras and telescopes in late July.

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Facebook ‘more toxic than banks’

ONE in four Australians has either dumped Facebook or reclaimed some of the personal information they share with the social media giant, according to a new study, even though most users found it difficult to do.

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Mystery over giant Aussie artwork

BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist Dick Smith is offering a $5000 reward to anyone who can solve one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries.

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How to Find the Perfect Streaming Music Service

You get tens of millions of songs for a few bucks a month no matter which you pick, but not all music services are the same. WSJ's David Pierce explains which is right choice for different types of music listeners. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal

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Hilarious photos from World’s Ugliest Dog contest

AN English bulldog with an underbite and muscular, rounded front legs won the 30th annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest in California on Saturday night.

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This Chinese warship changes everything

ON the surface, the photo seems somewhat bland. It’s your typical corporate shot — a bunch of guys looking attentive around a boardroom table. But, in the background, on the big screen, is something likely to make the US Navy sit up and take notice.

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Chinese upstart taking on Apple, Google

XIAOMI, a Chinese smartphone maker that helped pioneer the trend toward ultra-low-priced smartphones, is preparing for what would possibly be the biggest tech initial public offering since e-commerce giant Alibaba’s in 2014.

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New virus attacks Florida teen

MOSQUITO-borne diseases are on the rise. Disturbingly, the animal viruses they carry are finding ways to infect new human hosts.

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Airbnb chief’s Instagram blunder

TALK about an Air-head move.

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I was in the army for 66 hours and it was bloody hard

“ARE you fit?” my editor asked me, in the same sort of way you’d ask someone if they’d willingly step into a ring with Terrence Crawford.

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Rat destroys more than $25,000 in cash

IT WAS a cash machine heist with a difference: The attackers were hungry rodents.

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Man’s deadly discovery in car

A MAN trying to jump-start his car was greeted by an unusual sound coming from his engine — the rattle of a venomous timber rattlesnake.

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Uber driver watching The Voice before crash

THE human backup driver in an autonomous Uber SUV was streaming The Voice just before the vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in March, according to a published report.

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Where all the unused plastic bags are going

THERE’S a question that’s been taxing the minds of many a shopper in the wake of the plastic bag ban.

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What the new Australia looks like

AUSTRALIA’S population is growing faster than ever before and is now set to hit a milestone it wasn’t expected to reach until 2051.

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Animal protesters’ fatal mistake

WARNING: Graphic

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Outrage over lion shooting at zoo

A LION has been shot dead at a zoo in Belgium after escaping from its cage.

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Koko the gorilla dies at 46

KOKO, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died.

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The SUV with removable seats

SKODA, the younger, brasher cousin of car giant Volkswagen, has been in Australia for 11 years selling cars that are slightly cheaper and better equipped than the VWs they compete against — and whose underpinnings they share.

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Citroen C3 bumps off boredom

RICH with panache and as funkily mad as a Citroen should be, the Citroen C3 with its “airbump” body protection nevertheless competes against far cheaper rivals in the compact hatch segment.

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Alfa steers into SUV terrain

THE times they are a-changin’ at Alfa Romeo. Looking at sales charts, the Italian sports car company has gravitated to the global phenomena that is SUV ownership.

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White House’s ‘Deep Impact’ plan

THE US government is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents.

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Australia’s X-rated selfie habit

THERE’S nothing wrong with taking a nice selfie every now and then but it turns out there are some of us that have taken the obsession way too far and have been snapping pics in some seriously inappropriate situations.

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Secret tricks to shopping online

AUSTRALIANS clearly love shopping online. For many of us, it’s a way of life, and we’re reluctant to go into physical stores.

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Two ‘panther’ sightings in two weeks

‘PANTHER’ sightings seem to be a thing in Australia.

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’Pure evil’ couple ‘sold sex videos with their child’

AUSTRALIAN police gave Ukrainian cops a vital tip-off which led to the arrest of a couple who allegedly filmed themselves repeatedly having sex with their four-year-old daughter.

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‘Bloody con job’: Steve Price’s bizarre rant

STEVE Price has come under fire after a bizarre on-air rant about the single-use plastic bag ban.

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The big question over new meat

IF MEAT is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called?

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NASA’s chilling 30-year-old warning

WE WERE warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told the US Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived.

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Plastic, metal ‘found in pet food’

BELOVED pets are being forced to consume plastic and other rubbish as the pet food industry chases profits.

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Speed camera hot spot costing Aussie drivers

THERE’S one Queensland road that drivers are being warned to be extra careful on, with a single camera catching speeding motorists every 69 seconds.

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Trump wants US ‘space force’

VOWING to reclaim American leadership in space, US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is directing the Pentagon to create a new “Space Force” as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space.

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Audi boss arrested over ‘dieselgate’ scandal

AUDI CEO Rupert Stadler has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in connection with parent company Volkswagen’s “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal.

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The New Microsoft Office: Four Things to Know

Microsoft’s changing its productivity suite in big and little ways. WSJ’s David Pierce explains how to make it work for you. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal

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Missing woman eaten whole by python

WARNING: GRAPHIC

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Tech CEO hit with criminal charges

FEDERAL prosecutors have indicted Elizabeth Holmes on criminal fraud charges for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and the public as the head of the once-heralded blood-testing start-up Theranos.

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‘Sociopathic’ CEO’s new comeback plan

WHEN Elizabeth Holmes was a young child a family friend asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up.

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‘How dare you’: Chase for stolen bike

A QUICK-THINKING motorist has driven to the rescue of a distressed woman, and captured a remarkable chase on his Dashcam as they hunt down her stolen electric bike.

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Mini maintains the retro fun

THE good thing about buying a used Mini is that, to the untrained eye, an immaculate 15-year-old example could be mistaken for a brand new one. The Mini in today’s showrooms has stayed remarkably true to the retro design that first arrived in 2000 — why change a winning formula?

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EOFY clearance sales: what to pay

SALES of new cars have hit the brakes for the past two months, the first market slowdown in just over half a year.

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Why this is our favourite SUV

ONCE in a while a car maker launches a new model with exactly the right mix of size, style, price, features, badge appeal and, well, the vibe.

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Three trillion tonnes of ice vanish from Antarctica

ANTARCTICA is on the retreat with a new study showing the continent’s ice sheet is melting far faster than expected.

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This kid is a better driver than most adults

THERE’S no denying this kid has some pretty impeccable drifting skills.

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Free content for an entire year

IT’S a well-established trope in post-disaster fiction, the biggest threat to the protagonists isn’t zombies or radioactive fallout or aliens or a deadly plague — it’s other humans.

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Luxury car makers slash prices

Prestige car sales are tracking below the industry average this year and that’s great news for buyers as the end of financial year deals kick in.

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Einstein’s shocking diary entries

NEWLY translated into English, Albert Einstein’s private travel diaries from the 1920s reveal that he was racist in his early life, especially towards Chinese people.

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What the warming of Antarctica means for us

Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice since between 1992 and 2017. It contributed to a 8mm rise in the global sea level. What does the rapidly-degrading condition of Antarctica mean for the rest of the world?

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VW fined $1.5 billion in ‘Dieselgate’

AUTOMAKER Volkswagen says it’s being fined 1 billion euros ($1.550 billion) by German authorities in connection with the diesel emissions scandal.

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Giant dust storm hits Mars

THE NASA rover ‘Opportunity’, which is stationed on Mars, has fallen silent as a gigantic dust storm enveloped the Red Planet in the past 24 hours.

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The worrying effect of sex drug

AUSSIE men say they have seen condom use drop because of a massively popular drug which is used to prevent the spread of HIV.

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This trick makes wine taste better

IMAGINE if there was way to make that open bottle of wine sitting in your fridge for too long taste good again.

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Tech.Biz – Wednesday 13th June 2018

Chris Griffith joins Biz Tech host Chloe James to discuss the latest consumer technology.

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Cops red faced over ‘new scam’ warning

POLICE have been left red faced after a “scam” warning posted to a local police unit’s Facebook page turned out to be a legitimate penalty notice.

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Gene editing tool could cause cancer

GAME-CHANGING DNA-editing technology intended to rid patients of diseases may cause cancer, according to two studies.

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Most awkward moment at summit

IN what was surely the most awkward moment of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s summit, the US President made one lighthearted remark that went down like a lead balloon.

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What Zuckerberg didn’t want to say

WE FINALLY have answers to many of the questions that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg avoided answering during his marathon grilling by US senators in April.

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Yank tank to take on HiLux

It’s billed as “the truck that eats utes for breakfast” but buyers might have trouble swallowing the hefty prices being asked for this massive, born-in-the-USA pick-up.

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The biggest games set for release

THE world’s biggest video game conference has started in Los Angeles and it’s already offered up some huge announcements of what’s coming over the next 12 months and beyond.

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Russia slapped with new hacking sanctions

THE United States placed five Russian companies and three individuals on its sanctions blacklist on Monday for allegedly supporting the FSB intelligence agency’s hacking operations, including a firm involved in subsea operations.

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Good moos as Penka the cow saved

BULGARIA has agreed to spare the life of Penka the cow after plans to kill her for crossing European Union borders without paperwork triggered an international outcry.

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Shark head impaled on fence

WARNING: Graphic images

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Pirating TV just got a lot harder

ENDING piracy for good has long seemed like a never-ending game of cat and mouse.

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The Smart Gadget Your Living Room Needs

Your TV may look great, but it sounds like junk. WSJ's David Pierce explains why you need a soundbar--and that if you get the right one, it can be a control center for your home theater. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/ The Wall Street Journal

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Social media police eye Horn-Crawford fight

SOCIAL MEDIA’S piracy police will be out in force on Sunday, patrolling for signs of illegal streams in the much-anticipated bout between Brisbane boxer Jeff Horn and American challenger Terence Crawford.

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Anger as search for volcano dead ends

GUATEMALAN rescuers’ decision to suspend recovery efforts in villages devastated by a volcanic eruption is leaving some people with relatives still missing distraught.

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People divided over video of man shoving boy

A MAN has come under fire for violently pushing a 10-year-old boy to the ground at a park.

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Mystery illness after weird sounds

THE US State Department has evacuated more staff from China over fears they may have been hit by a mysterious illness that has struck other colleagues in the Asian country and Cuba.

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Cunning plan to defeat Putin

BRITISH cops are going to get beefed-up powers and there is only one enemy they have in mind - secret operatives under the orders of Vladimir Putin.

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Drawing the Future of Cybersecurity With Nicole Eagan

Cybersecurity expert Nicole Eagan explains how artificial intelligence can be used to stop attacks on connected devices.

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‘Get your asses into gear and fix this outage’

THOUSANDS of Sydneysiders are still without internet, more than 24 hours after a damaged cable left a number of companies without a network.

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Is this our best value car?

AS MORE buyers switch to SUVs there are renewed efforts to improve the appeal of conventional passenger cars. Take the new Kia Cerato sedan for example. It’s bigger than a Toyota Camry from 20 years ago — and larger than the current Corolla and Mazda3 sedans — and equipped with class-leading technology despite not wearing a European badge.

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Common road rule is actually a myth

WHEN approaching a roundabout always give way to your right.

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Foreboding rise of China’s ‘black tech’

IT CAN crack your smartphone password in seconds, rip personal data from call and messaging apps, and peruse your contact book.

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Tech.biz, Wednesday 6th June 2018

Biz Tech host Susanne Latimore joins Chris Griffith to discuss the latest consumer technology.

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Newcastle to Sydney in 70 mins

IF SYDNEY were to merge with Newcastle, Wollongong and the Central Coast to become a mega city of 10 million people, it could change the way we live forever.

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New TV shows coming to Stan

AUSTRALIAN streaming service Stan has made a raft of announcements including two new original series.

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Scania celebrates 100 years as bus manufacturer

Scania celebrates 100 years as bus manufacturer.

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Australia’s new road revolution

FED up of waiting for the government to take action, a group of electric car owners have banded together to change Australia’s roads forever.

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Russian TV Photoshops smile onto Kim Jong-un

A RUSSIAN TV station appears to have Photoshopped a smile onto North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un in a news report.

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Big problem with $8bn rego axe plan

A PLAN to radically change the way motorists pay for using the road, which could cost drivers more than $8bn a year, has failed in other countries and could fail in Australia, experts have warned.

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‘For firefighters, this is what it’s all about’

A TENNESSEE fire captain is being praised online for his heroic efforts after he was photographed cuddling a child after she was in a car accident.

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The worst plastics you’re using

THEY’RE the everyday items we’re all guilty of using for convenience.

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Staying Bed Bound for Space Science

Scientists are studying bed-bound subjects to delve into the long-term effects of weightlessness, with implications not just for astronauts headed to Mars, but for those still back on Earth.

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MH370 search ship goes rogue

THEY’VE lost out on the MH370 finder’s fee of more than $90 million, but underwater exploration company Ocean Infinity is showing no sign of giving up on the lost plane.

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Town drowning in mountains of rubbish

A NEW South Wales Central Coast community is still cleaning up waves of rubbish dumped on their normally pristine beaches, days after rough seas knocked 83 shipping containers off an African freight ship.

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The Gear You Need To Work From Anywhere

Your office is no longer confined within cubicle walls. It's in coffee shops and airports, coworking spaces and open-plan bullpens. WSJ's David Pierce explains everything you need to work from anywhere—and how to fit your entire office in your bag. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal

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13-year-old loses $106k on gambling site

A 13-YEAR-old boy with a gambling addiction managed to blow $A106,000 on betting websites after stealing his dad’s credit card.

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Three ways the world could end

CIVILISATION on Earth will probably be killed off by one of three ways, scientists have concluded.

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Dating website for misongynists

IT’S the dating website to end all dating websites — a matchmaker for men who hate women.

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Injury leaves sausage dog unrecognisable

TREVOR “the terrific dachshund” is actually quite tiny.

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Kia Stinger 2017: Video Review

Kia is targeting Commodore and Falcon enthusiasts with its rear-drive performance sedan. Does it succeed?

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Haval H2 2017: Video Review

We hit the Stuart Highway out of Darwin for a four-day dash to Adelaide in the Haval H2

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Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk 2018: Video review

Jeep shoehorns 522kW of supercharged V8 goodness into its large SUV. Are they mad?

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Fury over review into beloved road rule

IT’S already adopted by most Australian states and territories but Queensland has instead backpeddled on the popular “left turn on red” rule in an attempt to mirror New South Wales.

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