Tracking the nighttime travels of the cyrptic powerful owl and other top stories.

• Tracking the nighttime travels of the cyrptic powerful owl

  

  The largest owl in Australia, the powerful owl is found in parks and suburban areas. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer How much space does a powerful owl need to live the good life in Melbourne's suburbs? Researchers trapping and tagging up to 10 of Australia's largest owl species are about to find out.The notoriously shy bird of prey with its startled "what are you looking at?" eyes is traditionally a forest species, though they are known to live around the green wedge..

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• Designed For Durability: Alcatel Go Play Launches In Oz

  

  Designed For Durability: Alcatel Go Play Launches In Oz By Martin Kovacs | Monday | 18/04/2016 Alcatel's Go Play smartphone, decked out with a range of features designed for durability, has launched in the Australian market. Shockproof, waterproof and dustproof, with an IP67 rating, the Go Play, which is equipped with an 8 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front camera, can shoot pictures and video underwater.Sporting a 5" HD screen and powered by a quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU, it runs Android 5.0 Lollipop,..

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• Climate change: Shift from fossil fuels can happen in just ten years

  

  Energy related carbon emissions make up the largest contribution to carbon in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels like coal and oil still generate a majority of the world's electricity and will have to be phased out soon in order to avert climate catastrophe. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco The world can be weaned away from fossil fuels in as short a time as a decade but this would require significant shifts in technology, regulations, tariffs and pricing regimes, besides the behaviour of users. In..

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• Secret new reserve to protect rare Night Parrot

  

  The Night Parrot was once found across extensive areas of arid Australia. But changed fire regimes, the impacts of pastoralism and feral animals have decimated the species. So much so that the Night Parrot was feared extinct, with the last live specimen collected in Western Australia in 1912.But a single bird was photographed on a western Queensland pastoral property in 2013. Last year, another bird was trapped and fitted with a radio collar on the same property. A 56,000 hectare reserve, calle..

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• Australia is outpacing the US in IoT adoption: Telstra CTO

  

  Australians are networking their homes at twice the rate of Americans and are eager adopters of the Internet of Things (IoT), according to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Telstra, Vish Nandlall. Speaking at Melbourne’s American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, Nandlall said US homes had an average of four devices connected to the internet in 2014, a rate well below its tech-hungry Australian counterparts. “When you look what’s happening within Telstra and our domestic network, you’re seeing a..

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