Samsung Gear Fit2 Australia: Where to Buy? and other top stories.

• Samsung Gear Fit2 Australia: Where to Buy?

  

  Samsung has unveiled Gear Fit2 in Australia, and it is launched at much cheaper price than Fitbit's latest fitness device. The price of the newly launched device matched the cost of the Microsoft Band 2. It was announced earlier this week, and it is ...

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• Mazda's New Tech Hints At A Greater Focus On Comfort

  

  Most Mazdas tend to be among the best corner-carvers in their classes, but they don’t necessarily cradle drivers in swaths of comfort. Mazda must know this because, according to Autocar, they’re adding fancy new tech to keep drivers feeling fresh even after long, winding road trips. Recently, Mazda showed off its new G-Vectoring Control system, a technology that basically alters engine torque output to help drivers navigate turns without having to make tons of tiny steering corrections. The en..

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• 2016 Audi R8 V10 review

  

  Isaac Bober’s first drive 2016 Audi R8 V10 review with pricing, specs, ride and handling, safety, verdict and score.In a nutshell: The second-generation Audi R8 is faster, stronger, lighter and just plain better than the original… oh, okay, I’ll say it, it’s brilliant.2016 Audi R8 V10Price From $354,900+ORC Warranty three years, unlimited kilometres Safety Not tested Engine 5.2-litre naturally-aspirated V10 petrol Power/Torque 397kW/540Nm; 449kW/560Nm Transmission seven-speed S tronic Drive quat..

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• Games Inbox: Do modern video games lack variety?

  

  After much badgering I managed to persuade a couple of my (rather limited) Wii U owning friends to jump into the colourful world of Splatoon, I’m glad to report they are loving it and find the whole game a refreshing and highly addictive change to the usual online shooters. As part of a discussion with one of the aforementioned friends he said he would have no problem with letting his child play the game, as the whole violence issue of shooting and ‘killing’ inklings was far tamer than the like..

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• Telstra suffers another major outage

  

  Telstra suffers another major outageTelstra CEO Andrew Penn speaking at a lunch in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.Telstra has suffered yet another major outage, with users across the country reporting difficulties with their ADSL and NBN internet connections.A Telstra spokesman confirmed the issues and said it was restoring connections.“From around midday (AEST) today an issue impacted some of our broadband customers,” the spokesman said.“Approximately 75,000 customers were directly..

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• Mercedes confirms electric car debut

  

  MERCEDES-BENZ will reveal a pure electric concept car at the Paris motor show in September – tipped to take the form of an SUV that will debut a new, futuristic design language.  The zero-emissions concept car will be the first in a family of four confirmed electric vehicles split into two SUVs and two sedans – one of which will take the fight to the Tesla Model S, and will provide the clearest look yet at Mercedes’ future electric strategy.  Built on a new scalable electric vehicle platform..

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