Tinder Social: What the new group dating feature is really like and other top stories.

• Tinder Social: What the new group dating feature is really like

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled into an old friend and her buddies who looked utterly deflated at a burger restaurant in Sydney, Australia late on a Friday night.  They were at the end of a lacklustre group date with a band they had met on Tinder. The band had set up their own profile, and invited the girls to a pub they were playing at nearby that night. "It seemed like it would be fun," my friend said, half eating a burger. The date was actually a rather boring and awkward affair, a far cry..

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• Australian bearded dragons experience deep sleep, dreams, scientists say

  

  Australian bearded dragons experience deep sleep, dreams, scientists say Posted April 29, 2016 09:01:56 Research in a German laboratory involving five Australian bearded dragons indicates the reptiles may dream and could prompt a fundamental reassessment of the evolution of sleep. Key points:Until now, only mammals and birds were known to experience REM and slow-wave sleepThe discovery suggests sleep traits emerged far earlier than previously suspectedLizards average..

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• Death of reef looms: top scientists

  

  Death of reef looms: top scientistsBy Tracey FerrierAAPApril 29, 2016 3:12PMSavePrint Climate change will certainly kill off large swathes of the Great Barrier Reef, top Australian scientists say.What's really at stake now is how much of the reef, if any, can survive beyond the turn of the century, they say.Climate and reef experts from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have analysed the mass coral bleaching event currently playing out along almost the entire length of the..

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• Gumtree shaken by hack attack

  

  Gumtree admitted its security had been compromised in April 2016, revealing users' personal details.Jennifer Dudley-NicholsonNews Corp Australia NetworkAUSTRALIAN users of the popular online sales site Gumtree may be targeted by online criminals after the site was hacked last weekend, exposing users’ personal details. The company, owned by online auction house eBay, contacted many of its customers to warn accounts had been “compromised in a security attack” which it had reported to the Austral..

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• Optus announces data-free music streaming for prepaid customers

  

  Optus prepaid customers will be able to use their mobile to stream music without worrying about consuming their data allowance. The second largest telco in Australia has announced that its prepaid mobile customers can use selected streaming apps data-free from May 2. The mobile music service is exclusive to new and existing customers on My Prepaid Ultimate, My Prepaid Daily Plus and other selected plans. From May 2, the customers can stream music without eating into their data by using some of ..

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• Smartphones are driving menace

  

  SAPOL Far North backs smartphone campaign. April 29, 2016, 3:45 p.m. SAPOL Far North backs smartphone campaign. SMARTPHONES: Using a phone while driving needs to become totally socially unacceptable, police say. POLICE say using a phone while driving needs to become totally socially unacceptable.“We believe this is a significant road safety issue which impacts the entire community,” said Detective Chief Inspector Denise Gray, the acting officer in cha..

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