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Why Canberra Is Australia’s Official Star Wars Holiday Special Capital
How best for Gizmodo Australia to mark May the 4th, known to geeks everywhere as Star Wars Day? Let’s do that by celebrating one of Star Wars’ more obscure Australian connections: it seems Canberra was one of the last places in the world where it was possible to freely and legally view the infamous Star…
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Five New Ways To Improve Your Fitness
Getting fit requires willpower, determination and planning — but that doesn’t mean that you can’t help the process along with the right gadgets and apps. Here are five recent contenders to consider.
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The Australian Da Vinci: How David Unaipon (Almost) Changed Our Nation
David Unaipon has been pictured on the front of Australia’s $50 note since 1995. A hugely intelligent man who nonetheless left school at 13, he lodged 19 patents during his life, revolutionised sheep shearing, devoted much of his time to attempting to achieve perpetual motion, wrote prolifically, and conceptualised the helicopter two decades before it…
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Ed Husic Explains Why New Piracy Laws Would Be Bad For Australian Tech
This morning at a copyright conference, Liberal Attorney-General Senator George Brandis said that the Coalition wanted to introduce new laws that would crack down on piracy via a system of notices issued through ISPs. This afternoon at the same conference, Labor MP Ed Husic offered up a stack of reasons why that approach could cause…