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9 great reads from CNET this week We explain what NFTs are and how they might soon be a part of your online experience. Plus: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine, wearing Microsofts HoloLens 2 and riding a Harley e-bike. Listen - 02:25 As if technology terms werent already inscrutable enough, now we have to deal with "nonfungible." Or, since tech speak thrives on abbreviations: NFT, short for "nonfungible tokens." Theyre a hot commodity right now, so its time for...

Australian farmers are set to reap a record $66 billion for their produce this year despite disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic and trade disputes with China. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) show that average farm incomes have risen 18 per cent, to $184,000 per farm. The agriculture sector in 2020-2021 will deliver a $5 billion increase on Australian farmings previous record year in 2016-2017. READ MORE: Australian grain far...

Once in a lifetime pink flowers emerge from burnt landscapes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A sea of colour has swept across wide swaths of the Blue Mountains just a year on from the huge bushfires as long-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life. The flowers, known as bushfire ephemerals because their seeds only germinate after fire, are blooming in formerly burnt landscapes from Katoomba to Lithgow and no...

77459 "I believe the focus should be on changing attitudes," Senator McCarthy told Today. "We have so much to do in our country that we can do and should be doing, and I would like to see a lot more energy into changing the attitudes of towards not only first nations people but how we can work together going forward on 26th January." Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy speaks about the debate to change the date of Australia Day.(Nine News/Today) The date c...

Heatwave conditions, dangerous surf and the Australia Day long weekend are combining to create a recipe for...

"We couldnt see 20-30 metres ahead of us, so we turned back," traveller Riley Even said. "Probably a good decision, its only getting worse." Heavy storms are battering WA, as a low-pressure system moves across the state.(9News) The tropical low is moving in a southerly direction about 250km southwest of Broome, towards Eighty Mile Beach and Sandfire Roadhouse. However, its no longer expected to turn into a cyclone. "It is, though, still a very powerful system and is producing gusts in excess of...

There were two new cases in hotel quarantine, and more than 16,000 people were tested. "Our testing rates are not where we would like them to be," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. LIVE UPDATES: NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant echoed the premiers calls for increased testing, saying the community could not fully enjoy low transmission rates unless there is certainty around underlying chains of community transmission. "It is critical at this time in the response that we mop up any tran...

A man returning from the US has been charged by police after allegedly trying to leave his hotel quarantine...

Was 2020 the year we finally broke our culture? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Was 2020 the year we finally broke our culture? Save Normal text size Advertisement “Cancel culture” was 2019’s Macquarie Dictionary word of the year, but it has had such a strong 2020 it should perhaps have been allowed to keep the yellow jersey for another 12 months (it didn’t; “doomscrolling” took podium honours this year). Som...

What the festive season 2020 is like in Australia Sarah Reid Bondi beach last month during the heatwave, Sydney, Australia © Brook Mitchell / Getty Images I pulled open my first Christmas cracker of the season last week. With another person. At a real-life Christmas party! Slipping on the paper crown and reading out the cheesy joke (What athlete is warmest in winter? A long jumper!) as my mates boogied to the original Mariah Carey Christmas album and decorated gingerbread Christmas trees wit...