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Fire ants cling to each other to float in #Harvey floodwaters in Houston, Texas. https://t.co/gghwX656wn http://pic.twitter.com/b5b99ZXctf

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SanDisk’s 400GB microSD card is an Android phone’s best friend

SanDisk has a new record-breaking microSD coming to market, which will deliver so much storage you might be at a loss as to what to do with it all. The new 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card is the world’s highest capacity card of its type, and is ideally suited for use in Android smartphones that feature an expansion slot.

Android’s most recent versions allow you to adopt microSD-based storage as “native internal” storage, which allows you to use it to install apps, store photos and more as if you were using a built-in flash memory drive. Most recent Android devices that offer a microSD slot will support the new 400GB chip out of the box, meaning you can get your phone up to almost double what the top-end iPhone currently offers in onboard storage.

The SanDisk 400gb microSD card can hold up to 40 hours of 1080p HD video, Western Digital notes, and offers transfer speeds of up to 100mb/s. It’s also designed to comply with the A1 App Performance Class specification for flash memory, which means it can load and run apps faster when operating as adopted internal storage.

Even though it offers so much added storage, the price won’t break the bank – at $250, it’s actually very reasonable for in terms of price per storage ratio. It also comes with a 10-year limited manufacturer’s warranty, and should be available soon via SanDisk directly and all the usual retail suspects. Could be a perfect partner for the new Galaxy Note 8, if you happen to be picking one of those up.

Source: SanDisk’s 400GB microSD card is an Android phone’s best friend | TechCrunch

China plans to build a supersonic 4,000 kmph flying train

China’s aerospace agency is researching a “high-speed flying train” which will be able to reach top speeds of 2,485 mph (4,000 kmph) – more than three times the speed of sound.

The high-speed pod system could be used to transport goods and people along President Xi Jinping’s planned modern-day Silk Road.

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) is developing a transportation system similar to that of Elon Musk’s futuristic Hyperloop system.

The Chinese agency says it owns over 200 patents for the project and plans in the future to export its hyperloop to countries along its touted modern-day Silk Road.

China’s President Xi Jinping has said the country’s multibillion dollar plan to build a modern-day Silk Road will be the “project of the century”.

The country’s existing high-speed rail network has received billions in investment in recent years, but CASIC’s futuristic system will require even more.

Source: China plans to build a supersonic flying train

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Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 due to bomb

Authorities in Frankfurt plan to evacuate over 60,000 people from their homes to defuse a WWII bomb.

City authorities in Frankfurt plan to evacuate more than 60,000 people from their homes on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction work.

The 1.8-tonne bomb of a type dropped by British bombers was unearthed on Tuesday.

City councilor Markus Frank said it contains 1.4 tonnes of explosives.

Frank said a radius of 1.5km around the bomb will have to be evacuated as a precaution ahead of the disposal itself, which is expected to take about four hours.

Officials are describing the planned evacuation as Germany’s biggest yet, though similar operations are still common more than 70 years after the war ended.

In May, for example, around 50,000 people had to leave their homes in Hannover temporarily for a bomb disposal.

Source: Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 due to bomb

Two explosions reported at flooded Texas chemical plant

Local emergency officials have reported two explosions at a flooded chemical plant in the Texas town of Crosby, its operators Arkema Inc said.

“At approximately 2 am CDT (0700 GMT), we were notified by the Harris County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) of two explosions and black smoke coming from the Arkema Inc plant in Crosby, Texas,” the company statement said.

As a precautionary measure officials had already ordered the evacuation of an area within 1.5 miles (three kilometres) of the organic peroxides plant, which operators had said was at risk of exploding due to a “critical issue” triggered by monster storm Harvey’s torrential rains.

Source: Two explosions reported at flooded Texas chemical plant | SBS News

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Two-thirds of Bangladesh under water as South Asia floods toll tops 1,200

Severe monsoon flooding spreads across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, leaving more than 1,200 people dead since the rains started.

There is an urgent need for rescue and relief services on the Indian subcontinent as severe monsoon flooding spreads across India, Nepal and Bangladesh, leaving more than 1,200 people dead since the rains started.

Key points:

• UN says 40 million people affected
• Building collapses in Mumbai as city floods
• Worst flooding in some parts of Bangladesh in nearly 30 years

Oxfam said its Bangladesh staff reported two-thirds of the country was under water and in some areas the flooding was the worst since 1988, creating an urgent demand for humanitarian supplies.

Widescale flooding in an arc stretching across the Himalayan foothills caused landslides and washed away tens of thousands of homes and vast swathes of farmland.

The UN said about 40 million had been affected.

Source: South Asia floods: Appeals for help as monsoon rains cause havoc in India, Nepal, Bangladesh – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

EFTPOS, credit card surcharges: Excessive fees to be banned across all businesses

September 1, all Australian businesses will be banned from slugging customers with excessive surcharges for using EFTPOS and credit cards to pay for purchases.

Key points:

• Ban on excessive credit card surcharges extends to all Australian businesses September 1
• Customers should expect credit card surcharges to be no more than 1-3pc, depending on the type of card
• Consumers who think they have been overcharged should talk to the business first and can also take their complaint to the ACCC

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the ban, which has been in effect for large businesses since last September, will extend to all businesses that are either based in Australia or use an Australian bank.

The ban means businesses will only be able to charge customers what it actually costs them to process payments for EFTPOS, MasterCard, Visa and American Express cards, including bank fees and terminal costs.

“For example, if a business’s cost of acceptance for Visa credit is 1.5 per cent, consumers can only be charged a surcharge of 1.5 per cent on payments made using a Visa credit card,” ACCC deputy chairman Michael Schaper said.

“Our message to business is that you are not allowed to add on any of your own internal costs when calculating what surcharge you will charge customers.

Source: EFTPOS, credit card surcharges: Excessive fees to be banned across all businesses – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

New electorates could cause headache for Turnbull

The creation of two new electorates in Victoria and the ACT, and the loss of one in SA, is tipped to benefit the Labor Party at the next federal election.

The Australian Electoral Commission’s (AEC) redistribution could cause political headaches for the Turnbull Government if an early election is called, with battlelines to be redrawn.

The redistribution will increase the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 150 to 151, although details of the new seats are yet to be announced.

The AEC’s decision is based on population growth and decline.

Victoria’s population has been booming and the ACT’s has been steadily increasing. South Australia’s has been declining compared to other states.

Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said there would be another meeting on Friday to start the process of redistribution, which could take months.

“Redistribution committees will be appointed and the public will soon be invited to make suggestions and comments on matters affecting the drawing of federal electoral boundaries and the naming of electoral divisions,” he said.

Source: ACT, Vic gain MP seat but SA loses one in AEC electorate redistribution – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

UPDATE: 6 dead + 40 trapped under collapsed building following Mumbai floods

A play school was also functioning in one of the rooms of the building but it is unclear how many children were inside.

The five-storey Hussain building in the south of the city had 11 families living in it when it collapsed.

“Forty people are believed to be stuck inside and a 43-member team is conducting rescue operations,” an official for India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) told AFP.

A play school was also functioning in one of the rooms of the building but it is not clear how many children were attending the school when the structure collapsed.

Emergency services and the NDRF personnel are carrying out a search and rescue operation and ambulances have taken 12 people to the nearby JJ Hospital – five of them are critically injured.

“As the incident happened at 8.30 in the morning there is the possibility of more people trapped inside,” an NDRF official said.

South Mumbai has more than 16,000 buildings built before 1940s and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) identified 791 of these buildings as dangerous in its pre-monsoon survey.

Locals have told reporters that the Hussain building was about 50 years old, however it is not clear if the building was classified as dangerous.

Source: Six dead and 40 trapped under collapsed building following Mumbai floods

Prepare for Spring Cold Nights, Australia. El Nino again…

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SPRING is about to be sprung and with it one of the driest ever winters [in the East].

But meteorologists have cautioned that Australia’s climate is “idling in neutral” and while the coming seasons days may be warmer than usual, cold and frosty mornings will be a feature for some time to come.

On Thursday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released its spring climate outlook as well its assessment of winter.

And if there was one word to sum up winter, it would be this: “dry”.

“For most of Australia this winter will be remembered for its cold nights, mild days and lack of rain,” said Sky News Meteorologist Tom Saunders.

“Every Australian capital’s rain total this season was below the long-term average and every capital’s maximum temperatures was above the long-term average.”

Australia has had its second driest June in 118 years of records. July was also above average while Brisbane had its warmest ever winter — 2C above the long-term average.

In the Pilbara, a temperature of 39.6C was recorded, the fourth highest ever winter temperature in Australia…

Building collapses in Mumbai, 30 trapped, 2 killed + 8 have been hospitalized

30 feared trapped. Authorities are scrambling to rescue survivors from the rubble of a three-story building that collapsed in Mumbai Thursday morning.

2 killed and eight people have been hospitalized, Mumbai police spokesman Rashmi Karandikar told CNN.

“We are still assessing how many people might have been trapped,” Karandikar said.

Authorities would not say if the incident is connected to the strong rains and flooding that hit the Indian metropolis this week.

Source: Building collapses in Mumbai, people trapped – CNN

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#Harvey moves into Louisiana with at least 35 dead, 17 missing

Tropical Storm Harvey spun across southeast Texas into Louisiana on Wednesday, sending more people fleeing for shelter after swamping Houston with record rains and flooding that killed at least 35 people and drove tens of thousands from their homes.

The storm has forced 32,000 people into shelters since coming ashore on Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in half a century. On Wednesday, it pummeled the coast from Port Arthur, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana. (GRAPHIC: Storms in the North Atlantic – tmsnrt.rs/2gcckz5)

Harvey weakened to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, but warned that “catastrophic and life threatening flooding will continue in and around Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur, eastward into southwest Louisiana for the rest of the week.”

The latest reported deaths included a married couple who drowned while driving through high water near Simonton, Texas, Major Chad Norvell of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter. The Houston Chronicle identified the victims as Donald and Rochelle Rogers of Katy, Texas.

Houston’s KHOU-TV said an infant girl was swept away after her parents got out of their pickup truck near New Waverly, Texas, and tried to carry her across rushing water.

Police in Harris County, home to Houston, said 17 people remained missing.

Busloads of people fleeing floodwaters around Port Arthur arrived in Lake Charles, joining residents who had packed into shelters to escape waterlogged homes. About 250,000 homes and businesses were without power in Texas and Louisiana, figures from four utilities showed.

Harvey was forecast to drop a further 4 to 8 inches ( 10 to 20 cms) of rain on Wednesday, with a storm surge of up to 4 feet (1.2 m) along the western part of Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, although the Houston area was finally expected to get a break, with no rain forecast for Thursday or Friday.

The floods shut the nation’s largest oil refinery in Port Arthur in the latest hit to U.S. energy infrastructure that has sent gasoline prices climbing and disrupted global fuel supplies.

Source: Harvey moves into Louisiana with at least 35 dead, 17 missing

Princess Diana’s sons William & Harry laid flowers on the 20th ann. of mother’s death

Princess Diana’s sons William & Harry laid flowers at Kensington Palace on the eve of the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death #TenNews http://pic.twitter.com/3dYRPbmHte

— TEN Eyewitness News (@channeltennews) August 31, 2017