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  Tony Abbott plays the wrong card

  smh.com.au - Peter Hartcher

  • 'The sooner the better': Joko Widodo says there will be no delay in executions • Julie Bishop steps in to ease tensions over Bali nine • President did not …

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  New Zealand: Nearly 200 stranded whales trigger major rescue effort

  Euronews

  ‘Save the Whales!’ It is more than just a slogan in New Zealand where desperate rescue efforts are underway after almost 200 pilot whales got ‘Save …

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  Six Darrell Lea staff denied redundancy payments as shell company DL Employment enters liquidation

  abc.net.au - By business reporter Michael Janda

  Six Darrell Lea workers face losing $400,000 in redundancy entitlements after a shell company employing them was put into liquidation. In July 2012, …

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  Internet Pioneer Warns Our Era Could Become The 'Digital Dark Ages'

  NPR - Scott Neuman

  What happens when today's high-tech data storage systems become tomorrow's floppy discs? Google Vice President Vint Cerf is concerned about the answer and its implications for preserving history. Speaking at a conference of top American scientists, Cerf described such a loss of important information …

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  Print out digital photos or risk losing them, Google boss warns

  The Telegraph

  Google's vice president has warned internet users to print out treasured photographs or risk losing them. Vint Cerf, the internet pioneer, said it was time to start preserving the vast quantities of digital data which are produced before they are lost forever. Peter Rowe's selfie with Sly …

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  Medhat Tawfik

  Feb 17, 2015