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Construction needs cloud flexibility

Australia’s embattled construction sector could benefit from cloud based information systems that can be switched on and off in lockstep with individual projects – with the exception of those organisations based in remote areas like the Kimberleys.

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Volunteers find Voorwerp in space. But, what is it?

Science - Space

Got some time to search the vastness of the universe? Help out at Zooniverse and you may discover something in the universe that even puzzles astronomers. And, you get to call yourself a Zooite.


A project called Galaxy Zoo, highlighted a while back on iTWire's 'GalaxyZoo: Galactic number of volunteers needed to identify 1 million galaxies', brought a lot of volunteers to classify galaxies within the universe. It has grown even bigger.

Four years after that iTWire report, these Zooites are making incredible discoveries, all detailed at their website Zooniverse, an expanded project of GalaxyZoo.

For instance, a Dutch schoolteacher, Hanny van Arkel, found a strange looking green thing near a spiral galaxy.

Not knowing what to make of this greenish object, she posted it on the Zooniverse website.

According to a April 22, 2011 NASA Science article ''¦ not even the experts knew what it was.'

So, they named it 'Voorwerp', which is Dutch for 'object'.

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