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Parents clueless on video game ratings

WITH computer games likely to be popular stocking fillers this Christmas a survey has shown mums and dads have no clue when it comes to ratings. Only 26 per cent of parents are aware controls existed on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii which can restrict the time spent playing games while 49 per cent were unaware of built-in classification locks. Ron Curry, chief executive of the Interactive Games...

Fatigue calculator tells if you’re too tired

RESEARCHERS at the Centre of Sleep Research at the University of South Australia have developed a fatigue calculator to help assess when people are too tired to work. The purpose of the tool is to help workers and their employers to better manage fatigue in the workplace, particularly for those working in high-risk industries, such as mining, trucking and health care. The calculator works by assessing...

Device translates baby’s cries

A MONITOR that deciphers babies’ cries, distinguishing a sleepy whimper from a hungry wail, is being developed. The cry translator could also alert parents to hunger, the need for a nappy change or desire for a cuddle. Japanese scientists have created a computer program that analyses the pitch and pattern of cries. So far, they have shown it to be accurate in telling painful wails from other...

Make manners fashionable again

A FLIGHT from Sydney to Brisbane takes a little over an hour. But when there’s a three-year-old screaming for the entire journey, without intervention from parents or flight attendants, even a plane doing about 900km/h will seem infuriatingly slow. “He had his hands on his hips, stood in the aisle and just screamed,” says etiquette expert Patsy Rowe, who was an unfortunate witness...

Linux laptop takes the strain for technophobes

A Newcastle-based company has launched a Linux-based laptop and support package designed to encourage technophobes online. Built by the Broadband Computer Company, the Alex laptop runs an operating system based on Ubuntu Linux and a set of applications that have been written in-house. The laptop’s features have been vastly simplified, and updates are applied automatically without prompting...

Apple to take iPad orders this week

Want a the 3G-less Apple iPad? The Mac maker will begin taking advance orders for the product later this week, it has been claimed. The news comes from website AppAdvice – formerly AppleiPhoneApps.com – and is said to derive from “a reliable source… familiar with the matter”. Said mole says Apple’s online store will begin taking iPad orders on 25 February. SOURCE…...

Vernon Kay txts page 3 girl

Vernon Kay admits sending racy text and Twitter messages to Page 3 girl behind wife Tess Daly’s back Married TV presenter Vernon Kay has admitted he exchanged racy texts and Twitter messages with glamour model Rhian Sugden. He claims not to have slept with the Page 3 blonde but wife Tess Daly, mother of his two children, is unlikely to be impressed by that. Kay, 35, swapped details with Sugden,...

girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man Saudi Arabia’s human rights commission has hired a lawyer to help a 12-year-old girl divorce her 80-year-old husband in a move activists hope will lead to a ban on child marriages. The country, which applies an austere version of Sunni Islam, has no minimum legal age for marriage. Fathers are granted...

Giant ET UFOs near Sun

Giant ET UFOs near Sun now visible with close-up image technology, exposing possible NASA cover-up Breakthroughs in new imaging technology developed by the firm of Ron Stewart/Ron Nussbeck may now permit human observers to identify what appear to be planet-sized extraterrestrial UFOs exiting from dimensional portals in the Sun (See images and slideshow in article below). A giant solar UFO wave...

Bill Murray will be a ghost Ghostbusters 3

Well, it’s been confirmed: after months of speculation and rumor-mongering– some straight from the lips of Ms. “Avatar” herself, Sigourney Weaver– Bill Murray has just come right out and admitted that, yes, he’ll be in “Ghostbusters 3″, and, yes, he’s going to play a ghost. READ MORE… Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Post...