The Boating Mecca of the Southern Seas: Victoria
With Melbourne boasting the spectacular Port Phillip Bay, the reputed boating mecca of the southern seas, Victoria is definitely a place you want to be sailing to. There’s plenty to do and see, both on land and on water, and the best thing is that you’ll never be too far from your boat. We have picked out several notable marinas with facilities to make your docking more practical and pleasurable, and their own boatyard, or the...
Melbourne’s Ice Lounge: The Coolest Place to Chill Out this New Year
Be part of the cool crowd at Melbourne’s Chill on Ice Lounge. Experience sub-zero temperatures as you quench your thirst with sublime cocktails in a bar made entirely of ice. It’s a winter wonderland of ice sculptures and cool music, and at minus 10 degrees it’s definitely the coolest place in Melbourne! Feel the freeze of the fan forced blizzard as you enter the Ice Lounge – the coolest bar in Melbourne. Be surrounded by more than...
True coffee at Melbourne Central with Plantation
Welcome the Caffeine King to Melbourne Central. Another installment of the empire behind St Ali….is this Sensory Lab outpost. This time he’s headed upstairs to Melbourne Central’s new level two Dining Hall, opening specialty coffee outlet Plantation. While coffee connoisseurs can expect a new experimental coffee encounter, others will relish this convenient pre-work or mid-shop high-class coffee stop. You’ll arrive at an eight-metre...
360Q: Waterside Eatery Adds a Modern Touch to Historic Queencliff
There are plenty of ways to approach Queencliff’s gleaning 360Q: by ferry, car, foot or – yes, please – by luxury sea-liner. The two-storey restaurant and bar sits at the tip of the promenade at the stunning one-year-old Queenscliff Harbour and offers a fresh, modern alternative to the seaside village’s renowned Victorian hotels. Architect Robert Conti’s design is clean and simple, with natural wood, limestone, copper and plenty of...
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Newsweek designer defends his controversial tech sexism cover
The relaunched version of Newsweek is no stranger to controversy. Almost a year ago, it brought the ire of the internet upon it with its launch story on Bitcoin creator Satashi Nakamoto, to the point where the company had to hire private security for the reporter who wrote it. This week, the venerable old magazine […]
Move over Emeril: Robot learns how to prep food from YouTube
These days, you can learn just about anything from YouTube videos — from how to tie a knot to the best way to open a wine bottle with a shoe. And it isn’t just humans who are benefitting. University of Maryland researchers have programmed a robot to learn basic cooking skills from YouTube videos, a […]
MIT has an easier way for multicore chips to use data structures
A group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have discovered a way for data structures to work more efficiently with mutlicore chips, according to an MIT announcement on Friday. The scientists will present their findings in February during the Association for Computing Machinery’s Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming. […]
Hackers/coders wanted! Register for the Accelerate Hackathon hosted by HP Helion at DeveloperWeek 2015
DeveloperWeek 2015 is San Francisco’s largest one-week tech event series with over 60 week-long events. One of the major events taking place in DeveloperWeek 2015 is the Accelerate Hackathon. This year HP Helion’s team is hosting the Accelerate 2015- Hackathon happening on the 7-8th February 2015. We would like to challenge you to create the […]
What to know about OpenStack for 2015
With growing adoption, signs of revenue, and the prominence of mature vendors, OpenStack clearly stands at an inflection point in 2015.
