Former Formula 3 champion Peter Hackett is eyeing a first Vodka O Australian GT Championship round win for his Mercedes AMG SLS this weekend at Phillip Island.
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Sony to sell 3D head-mounted display
Sony says it will start selling a head mounted display that provides a 3D theatre of music videos, movies and games, targeting people who prefer solitary entertainment rather than sitting in front of a TV with family or friends.
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iiNet chief Michael Malone responds to WikiLeaks cable showing AFACT deliberately avoided Telstra in copyright battle
A new cable from Wikileaks alleges that iiNet was targeted by the American film industry because the company was large enough, and that it avoided Telstra which was deemed to have considerable financial resources and a “demonstrated willingness to fight hard and dirty”.
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Confirmed: George Lucas @#$%ed with the Original Trilogy for the Star Wars Blu-Rays
If your response to this is a big, hearty “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” then you and Darth Vader have something in common.
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US studios avoided Telstra battle and went after iiNet instead in copyright case
Leaked documents from the US Embassy in Canberra reveal that Hollywood studios chose to go after third-largest internet provider iiNet, rather than Telstra, in a hard-fought online copyright case set to be heard for a third time by the High Court in Sydney.
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Clipsal 500 could change its qualifying day
The Clipsal 500 could see a return to its old Friday qualifying schedule next year.
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Wild about Harry
After the excitement about Harry Kewell’s signing with Melbourne Victory – heightened by the news Brett Emerton was coming to Sydney – died down, light bulbs went off over the heads of the Soccerscenti.
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Holdsworth set to become SBR driver in 2012
Another piece of the 2012 V8 Supercars driver jigsaw has been put in place, but will not be officially announced until after the Supercheap Auto 1000 at Bathurst.
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‘Bulletproof’ skin: researcher creates silk that helps stop bullets
A bio-art project to create bulletproof skin has given a US researcher even more hope his genetically engineered spider silk can be used to help surgeons heal large wounds and create artificial tendons and ligaments.
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Codemasters to launch free-to-play, online F1 game
Codemasters, developers of the multimillion selling, BAFTA winning F1 2010™ video game, have announced that F1 Online: The Game, a free-to-play browser game, is in production at Codemasters Studios and set to launch in the first quarter of 2012.