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Official Pokémon games have traditionally lived on Nintendo-branded game systems. Maybe not the simple Pokémon encyclopedia apps or mini-games you can get for your phone, but the really good ones. Until nine months ago, that is, when the Pokémon Company announced that augmented reality company Niantic -- makers of Ingress -- would be bringing an official Pokémon game to iPhone and Android.

Happy Canada Day! In honor of our favorite nation of hockey players, poutine-eaters, and syrup swiggers, we're spotlighting eight Canadian scientists who've made big impacts in their fields and in the world. Canada has a huge number of people in the sciences, so we're barely scratching the surface. Who would you include on your list?

In the future, what language you speak won't matter. That's what Facebook wants to believe anyway—the company has been working for years to master automatic, comprehensive translation of all the content on the site, so you can appreciate every Facebook post regardless of language.

It's the Magic School Bus for breast cancer: A team at the University of New South Wales, designed a VR simulation to explore cancer cells.

Imagine that all the cows on Earth gathered to form their own country. The newly created Republic of Cowtania would be the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, just behind the United States and China.

Kids! Science! Kids doing science!

By the time the Sun rose a little after 7 o'clock in the morning on December 21, 1968, people were already gathered on beaches and stopped on backroads near NASA's Kennedy Space Centre. The crew of Apollo 8 was already strapped into their command module, and as sunlight spread over the scene the launch countdown moved steadily forward. The voice over the loudspeaker told the crowds that the guidance computer was making its final checks for the flight azimuth, then, at T-minus eight seconds announced that the ignition sequence had started. At 7:51 that morning, the Saturn V lumbered off the launch pad, gaining speed as it climbed higher.

I rather suspect that journalist Annabel Crabb was more right than wrong when she penned this……The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 July 2016:Grasping the upper house by the scruff of its surly neck in March, Turnbull forced it – in a memorably post-modern legislative moment – to change the way its 72 members are elected.

Well it's an interesting time for Oz what with that election result. I shall be curious as to the impact.Most curious (strokes chin).

Before I start, let me apologise to regular readers for the long delay in posting at a time when you'd expect me to post often and much. I feel like I've said everything that needs to be said about the horrible vacuity of campaign-trail journalism, while the big media organisations keep pumping out the same old crap. Those who think I've said too much already can agree that I gave those drongoes trashing once-proud media outlets more than enough rope.1972 was clearly a big year for campaign-trail journalism.

While mainstream journalists are frantically trying to work out how they could have got it so wrong and Liberal Party headquarters is already blaming Labor for a dishonest campaign focussed on Medicare, Labor supporters are euphoric. The result has gone beyond the most optimistic of expectations. The people have dared to defy calls for stability,…

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By James Moylan Turnbull suffers a massive loss, the election result is on a knife’s edge, and so the afternoon after the election the Australian press is full of questions about Bill Shorten and his leadership. WTF? All the while not a single one of our mainstream press agencies has devoted any time to trying…

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