VICTORIAN authorities LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM TO scrap GAMING ADDICTION
As the world of online gaming gets bigger, so do some of the problems that come with it.
Now, a new program’s been set up aid young Aussies game safely and take hold a better time online.
According to a study in conclusion year, almost half of the most popular games downwardly under included some cast of gambling.
That can mean things similar lootboxes, they give players randomised rewards, and can often be bought with inwards-app purchases using real life money.
It’s got experts pretty worried that it could Pb to kids developing gambling habits when they grow up. As for gaming addiction, experts point to things similar regular leveling up and constant rewards as ways that games try to draw people inwards and maintain them playing, which can create kids more likely to become addicted.
The program’s main focus is helping parents better understand some of these problems so they can educate their kids on how to create sure their online experience is safe and salubrious.
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LAB GROWN CORAL
Scientists on the Great Barrier Reef take hold been doing some underwater gardening with coral they’ve grown inwards a lab!
These crates are total of baby corals they’ve been looking after which take hold been specially bred to be more resistant to coral bleaching.
That’s what happens when high sea temperatures kill the algae that live inwards coral and that can sometimes stop up killing the coral too. The scientists will be checking back over the next few months to see how the coral’s doing inwards its new place.
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ORANGUTAN SUITCASE RESCUE
A young orangutan’s been rescued inwards Indonesia. It was found inwards a suitcase that someone had tried to smuggle out of the country, apparently to maintain as a pet!
Airport security also found two geckos and iv chameleons inwards the suitcase.
Police take hold arrested a Russian traveller and the orangutan is now safe and sound.
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STEVE SMITH RETURNS TO THE IPL, BUT ASHWIN STEALS THE SHOW
Steve Smith is back. Nearly a year after being banned from international cricket over ball tampering, he’s made his return to the Indian Premier League, one of the biggest comps inwards cricket.
It didn’t exactly go to plan though. He scored just 20 runs for the losing team, and his big return was upstaged by this controversial moment.
Bowler Ravi Ashwin pulled a sneaky move, pretending to acquire ready to bowl the ball, before knocking the stumps just as the opposition batsman left his crease.
It’s within the rules, but some reckon it’s not very sportsmanlike, with cricketing greats similar Shane Warne weighing inwards.
It wasn’t the only sneaky sporting play making headlines. Nick Kyrgios made not one, but two underhand serves at the Miami Open, and they worked a treat.
Kyrgios won inwards straight sets, but once again, not everyone was impressed.
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CROC EATS FISH
These guys fishing up inwards the Northern Territory were reeling inwards a massive catch, but they didn’t see see this coming!
A giant saltwater croc decided he wasn’t too keen on finding his own luncheon, and popped up to grab some convenient takeaway.
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TOO MANY BELIEBERS
When pop star Justin Bieber chose to shoot a music video inwards this remote, largely unknown Icelandic canyon, he might take hold expected a pat on the back for giving the region a tourism boost.
What I’m sure he didn’t see coming was a stampede of Beliebers so big that the surround Agency’s had to close the canyon to tourists!
According to the guide book Lonely Planet, the number of tourists hither has doubled inwards two years, and the fragile surround can’t handgrip all those extra trampling feet.
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