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Japanese potato party

McDonald’s began offering customers any size fries for Y150 ($A1.80), a sharp markdown from traditional Japanese prices at the famous chain. The move sparked a frenzy, reported gaming blog Kotaku, with groups of friends ordering absurd amounts of fries and then photographing them for their social media mates. The phenomenon, …

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PayPal Hacked (not really)

Members of the loose hacking collective claimed credit for dumping 28,000 passwords online that they said belonged to PayPal customers. They said the  attack was part of a much larger hacking campaign, involving PayPal, Symantec, several Australian government sites and more, that was timed to Guy Fawkes Day, the British …

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XBox to use Kinect to restrict viewers

A newly surfaced patent filing from Microsoft’s Xbox Incubation team details one of the new innovations they’ve been thinking about. This one could be very popular among major movie and television studios. But it probably wouldn’t generate much excitement among Xbox users. The patent application, filed under the heading “Content …

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Holy Water Fight?

A dispute with an Israeli water company over unpaid bills has led to a Greek Orthodox threat to close Christianity’s holiest site, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Maariv newspaper reported on Friday that the Hagihon water company said it was owed nine million shekels ($A2.03 million) in …

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ACCC is fucking awesome

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has told a parliamentary inquiry that consumers’ use of illegal download sites to access content is a backlash against suppliers. The ACCC said illegal downloading methods were well-known to many consumers in Australia and are having an impact on supplier strategies. According to …

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Who’re you gonna call?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sIRGapgV9kU[/video] Halloween reveller dressed in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit climbs onto the roof of a police car before executing a perfect backflip off it. The stunt took place during a raucous Saturday night in Moncton, Canada – right infront of two bemused Mounties, who were too slow to stop him showing …

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Android h4x3d by Ethiopian children

With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. The goal: to see if illiterate kids with no previous exposure to written …

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Put On Your Alfoil Hats!

As if the prospect of being watched by security cameras wasn’t unsettling enough, they may not only be watching you. Computerised surveillance software currently under development will also let them predict what you’re about to do. The project, funded by the US government and being worked on by researchers at …

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