Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Now You Can See Your Uber Rating Right In The App and other top stories.

  • Now You Can See Your Uber Rating Right In The App

    Now You Can See Your Uber Rating Right In The App
    Do you know your Uber passenger rating? Now you can see it right in the app.Just as Uber passengers get to rate drivers on a scale of one to five stars after a ride, drivers get to rate passengers. And just as passengers have their dislikes, such as a driver with overly strong air freshener or who exceeds the speed limit, drivers do, too — like when passengers eat in the car or puke.Drivers have always been able to see passenger ratings, and so have passengers, if they knew where to look. But s..
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  • Man livestreams murder of baby daughter on Facebook before committing suicide

    Man livestreams murder of baby daughter on Facebook before committing suicide
    A Thai man broadcast a video of himself killing his baby daughter on Facebook then committing suicide, with the content reportedly being available to view for 24 hours before being taken down. The social media giant is under mounting pressure to deal with inappropriate posts. The footage showed Wuttisan Wongtalay hanging his daughter by the neck from the rooftop of a building in Phuket, a popular vacation destination, Reuters reported. Wongtalay then killed himself but this part was not broadca..
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  • How your electricity smart meter could be used to rob your house

    How your electricity smart meter could be used to rob your house
    Smart electricity meters are the standard in Victoria, and available in other jurisdictions too. Photo: ABC. ABC. Share. Tweet Share Reddit Pin Email. Smart electricity meters carry vulnerabilities that could assist burglars and compromise privacy, but ...
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  • Galaxy S8/S8+ Review: I Hate The Software But I'll Use It Because It Looks So Pretty

    Galaxy S8/S8+ Review: I Hate The Software But I'll Use It Because It Looks So Pretty
    Ben Sin The Galaxy S8 must have felt like a bit of a paradox for Samsung engineers, execs, and marketers. This is the phone they hope will wipe the Note 7 off everyone's mind, but at the same time the S8 is a clear continuation of the Note 7's design cues.  I admire the patience of tech writers who went into detail explaining the symmetrical curves of the S8 in their reviews. Me? I ain't got that endurance, so I'll keep it short and to the point: The S8 looks and feels just like the Note 7..
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  • NBN Co achieves superfast broadband speeds with fixed wireless in a demonstration of capacity not yet available

    NBN Co achieves superfast broadband speeds with fixed wireless in a demonstration of capacity not yet available
    NBN Co has trialled a superfast broadband in Ballarat, that delivered speeds 20 times faster than normal fixed wireless รข€” but it won't be available anytime soon.Achieving 1.1 gigabits per second, that would allow you to download a high quality Blu-Ray movie in just five seconds.The demonstration was done in Ballarat, Victoria, to show the technology could be upgraded in future.NBN Co said that speed was a demonstration only, proving that the technology has the capacity to cope with future nee..
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  • This Caterpillar Can Eat Plastic Shopping Bags

    This Caterpillar Can Eat Plastic Shopping Bags
    In a chance discovery, a research team from Europe has learned that a common insect larva is capable of breaking down the plastic found in shopping bags and other polyethylene-based products. This trash-munching caterpillar could inspire scientists to develop a new chemical process to tackle the growing problem of plastic waste. A wax worm chewing a hole through plastic. Plastic debris can be seen attached to the caterpillar. (Image: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe) Beekeep..
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  • Whale whispers: careful, he might hear you

    Whale whispers: careful, he might hear you
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  • Chloe sent this letter to Google in hope of getting a job.Source:Supplied

    Chloe sent this letter to Google in hope of getting a job.Source:Supplied
    Seven-year-old Chloe Bridgewater wrote a letter to Google and got a response from their CEO. Picture: SuppliedA BRITISH schoolgirl who received a personal letter from Google’s boss after she asked him for work has nabbed her first job — at the ripe old age of seven.The Sun reports Chloe Bridgewater, from Hereford, found fame after her letter to the technology company went viral.The savvy schoolgirl and her little sister Hollie will sit on software company Kano’s advisory board, testing new produ..
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  • University astronomer theorises about lost alien civilisation that lived in our solar system

    University astronomer theorises about lost alien civilisation that lived in our solar system
    A Penn State University astronomer has produced a paper speculating about past alien civilisations before humans.THE solar system humanity calls home may have once been inhabited by an extinct species of spacefaring aliens, a top scientist has suggested.An American space scientist has suggested ancient extraterrestrials could have lived on Mars, Venus or even Earth before disappearing without a trace.In a rather unique and fascinating academic paper entitled Prior Indigenous Technological Specie..
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  • NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes historic dive between Saturn and its rings

    NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes historic dive between Saturn and its rings
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes historic dive between Saturn and its rings Updated April 26, 2017 18:44:40 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun its first historic dive between Saturn and its rings.Travelling at more than 110,000 kilometres per hour, Cassini was due to travel through the gap at 7:00pm AEST tonight. The dive is the first of 22 the probe will make between now and the end of its mission in September, in what NASA has dubbed Cassini's "grand finale".But, with..
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