Chrome and Firefox may soon block pirate sites and other top stories.

• Chrome and Firefox may soon block pirate sites

  

  Piracy, long the bane of copyright agencies and content distributors - it may be soon that search engines, browsers, and DNS providers simply will not be able to find and access known pirate sites. Early reports from Torrent Freak state that, at least in the U.K. Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Comodo Secure DNS are actively blocking torrent sites like Pirate Bay instead bringing up stern warnings about the site containing harmful programs. Google and Mozilla claim that such sites m..

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• Dunlop extends Supercars tyre deal

  

  Dunlop extends Supercars tyre deal Dunlop has extended its Supercars deal Dunlop will introduce a new tyre into the Supercars Championship next season as part of a fresh agreement with the championship. The tyre supplier has today announced a two-year extension to its control supply deal, taking it through until the end of the 2019 season. It will also debut a new construction tyre from next year that promises to shake-up the championship. Although the existing compounds will remain, the new..

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• Anti-Semitic picture shows human remains on a shovel but Facebook will NOT remove it

  

  Facebook is under fire for instigating anti-Semitism after refusing to remove a picture of human remains on a shovel captioned 'How to pick up Jewish chicks'.The social media giant claimed the image did not breach its standards, but the Facebook community erupted in anger over its handling of posts reported as offensive.It comes just days after Facebook decided not to censor a symbolic Vietnam War image of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, The Age reported. Facebook is under fire for insti..

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• RE: Abarth 124 rally car: Time For Tea

  

  World rallying is experiencing something of a resurgence. For the 2017 season there will be more aggressive and faster WRC cars, plus the popularity of the R-GT class seems to be increasing. Now we have our first look at the second rear-wheel drive R3 ...

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• What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack

  

  What The iPhone 7 Gained By Losing The Headphone Jack The cool people at iFixit have torn apart the new iPhone 7 Plus. As expected, there are a lot of new changes, like the new camera system, waterproofing and, of course, the death of the headphone jack. Image: iFixit Getting rid of the headphone jack actually meant that Apple had more room for other stuff in the chassis. And in that space is a larger Taptic Engine. There was a Taptic Engine on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, but the new one is la..

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• Josh Frydenberg moves to save Antarctic station

  

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• Pokémon Go Plus: This Wearable Was Supposed to Be for Kids, but It's Not Kids Who Are Buying It

  

  From the 1950s well into the 1980s, the slogan for Trix breakfast cereal was “Trix are for kids.” Ads showed a silly rabbit going through all sorts of machinations to get his hands on the colorful cereal. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Pokémon Plus, the Pokémon Go accessory released today. It was supposed to be for kids, Niantic founder and chief technology officer Phil Keslin told me this week. He says Nintendo pitched it as a low-cost, low-entry augmented reality device for children. Sa..

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• ReCore: The Kotaku Review

  

  Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox One and PC action-adventure ReCore is one of those second types.ReCore starts beautifully, putting its player in control of Joule Adams, the lone woman on an intriguing, d..

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• Queensland extends reef invitation to Leonardo DiCaprio

  

  The Queensland government has extended an invitation to Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio to visit the Great Barrier Reef and learn about its conservation efforts.DiCaprio this week cited the plight of the reef at the Our Oceans Conference in Washington DC, saying the level of impact it had suffered in a recent coral bleaching event had been mirrored in other reefs across the globe. Leonardo DiCaprio speaks during the Paris Agreement on climate change ceremony at UN headquarters. Photo: AP ..

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