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Actual motherfu*king snake spotted on actual motherfu*king plane
A real-live snake was spotted on a plane this week, on a Qantas flight headed from Cairns, Australia to Port Moresby. But it wasn’t just any snake: It was python nearly 10 feet in length, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The creature was spotted mid-flight in a well under…
Scientists using supercomputer to study common cold virus
Scientists in Australia are using the unprecedented power of a new supercomputer to model the workings and behavior of the common cold, a virus known as rhinovirus, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. It has long been a medical truism that curing the common cold is an impossibility, but recent…
Top editors quit Australian papers after parent company announces layoffs, paywalls
Top editors at Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald resigned Monday, after parent company Fairfax last week announced an overhaul designed to embrace the digital era. Peter Fray, publisher and editor-in-chief at the 180-year-old Sydney paper, and its first female editor Amanda Wilson, said they were leaving,…
Gay hookup app Grindr hacked, exposing users’ details
The popular gay hookup app Grindr admitted Friday that a recent hack completely exposed users’ accounts, including personally identifying information, ongoing conversations and photographs, many of which contain explicit nudity. Grinder, a smartphone app immensely popular in the gay community for helping to facilitate sexual encounters with random strangers, has…
U.S. to base Marines in Australia
US President Barack Obama will use a visit to Australia next week to announce that America will station Marines in Darwin, ministers indicated Friday, in a sign of heightened concern about China. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the new permanent military presence had been under consideration for some years…
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