Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised the National Broadband Network will mean better health services for regional Australia. At her official campaign launch in Brisbane, she said a re-elected Labor Government would spend nearly $400 million for Medicare rebates for online medical consulations. “It’s offensive to me that, if you live in rural and regional Australia, you are three…

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BOSTON (AP) — Warm weather has many fruits and vegetables ripening early this year, and on some farms, fall crops will be ready well before . Early apples are already ripe for picking in the Northeast and Midwest. Sweet corn was a couple of weeks ahead of schedule, as were many tomatoes, blueberries and peaches. And, if the warm weather holds, families might have pumpkins well before October starts. Major row crops, such as corn and soybeans, also are a little ahead of season, said Julie Schmidt, a statistician with the National Agricultural Statistics Service. A mild winter let farmers plant early, and warm weather since has helped their growth….

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Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here — according to a recent paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns in the open, courtesy of their fingers’ oily smear on the screen. Specifically, the study on potential “smudge attacks” found that partial or complete patterns could be easily retrieved — even with added noise on the display or after incidental clothing contact — by using various lighting and camera orientation settings for the smear analysis. Should we be surprised? No. But should our phones be getting Froyo sooner for the extra PIN and QWERTY password options? Hell yeah.

Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Exilim golf-friendly digicam hitting Japan; the Pro from Dazaifu never had it so good originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today has special meaning for three local men who bear deep scars from a war they fought more than a half century ago. One was a submariner in the Pacific; another, a member of an Army tank crew; and a third, an infantry soldier. On this day, they are marking the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II — Aug. 14, 1945. All three had seen serious action. Ellis Augsburger was a 20-year-old sailor and torpedo man on the USS Hawkbill. After a series of successful missions in the Pacific, Augsburger’s sub was on patrol in July 1945 in the South China Sea off the coast of Singapore when the crew had a close call. The Hawkbill came across Japanese destroyers escorting a…

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Pop star Rihanna is excited for her new ‘sassy’ album. Celebrities at the press room of the 2008 American Music Awards, NOKIA Theatre, Los Angeles, California. – Russ Einhorn /…

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Apple’s newest Mac mini is a distinct and welcome departure from the comparatively bulky white Mac mini of yesteryear, and while we appreciate the unibody construction, inbuilt SD card reader and HDMI port, asking $700 and up for a headless PC without tons of oomph is still asking a lot. We’re curious to know if your new Mac mini has been treating you well (as an HTPC or otherwise), and moreover, we want to know how you’d change things even further if given the key to Cupertino’s design labs. Would you have added a Blu-ray option? Maybe an OTA TV tuner? Thrown any other ports on the rear? Beefed up the GPU a little? Trimmed things down for a cheaper entry-level model? Go on and vent in comments below — hugs are free and limitless.

How would you change Apple’s HDMI-equipped Mac mini? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve already heard how Verizon expects to hit the ground running on LTE, starting this November with a launch in 30 markets — New York, LA, Philadelphia, and so forth. Now it looks like you can add San Francisco to that aggressive list, if Boy Genius Report’s leak proves true. Will it beat WiMAX to the region? Your move, Sprint.

San Francisco in Verizon’s initial 30-market LTE rollout? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NEW YORK – Full flights? Get used to them. Stressed flight attendants and call centers in India? Get used to those, too. While the current state of the U.S. airline industry can be frustrating for…

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The CBI has lodged separate FIRs against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, six of his former cabinet members and two of his aides on corruption charges, a week after the high court asked the…

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