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It’s widely known as a foodie city, yet Melbourne—which made the 2015 Fodor’s Go List—is home to incredible restaurants and chefs that lack international name recognition. Sure, culinary superstars like Nobu Matsuhisha, Heston Blumenthal, and prolific Sydney chef Neil Perry have planted stakes here, but what about the local talent? We’ve rounded up 10 restaurants where Melbourne–based chefs are doing wonderful things with the bounty of produce, livestock, and wines from
Few destinations offer the variety and vibrancy that travelers find in Israel, where there are millennia of history, miles of scenic landscapes, and dozens of friendly people willing to share the traditions and struggles of their culture. Despite the recent conflicts in the area, the country remains safe for tourists, a place where travelers can come to learn, relax, and partake in some unforgettable experiences. Here are our picks for
Sue Roe is the author of In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art, a vivid history of Modernism and the group of artists who revolutionized the concept of art. Through their lives and the excitement surrounding this period of artistic experimentation, Roe brings together colorful and key moments in the movement. Artists have always gathered in Montmartre. Renoir said the district smelled of lavender and lilacs. The
Introduction, design and specs The Boxx company offers many different high performance and rendering systems that include workstations, virtual solutions, server-based rendering solutions, and simulation solutions. The Boxx team builds custom machines that focus on AutoCad, 3D, VFX, animation, multimedia, video editing, video game creation, and more. The Boxx Apexx 2 workstation (starting at $2,086.00, £1399.43, AU$2739.58) is a wonderful purchase for anyone who is looking for a computer that
Even though HP is exploring different notebook form factors with its x360 products across the Spectre, Envy and Pavilion line, the PC-maker isn’t giving up on the traditional laptop design. This year’s Pavilion notebooks, available in 14-, 15- and 17-inch displays, represent HP’s continued investment in the affordable laptop space. The biggest changes this year include support for Intel’s latest Broadwell architecture as well as HP’s shift to its newest
Apple has failed to plug a significant security flaw in OS X Yosemite that leaves all Macs running the OS open to a vulnerability that can take over the whole machine. First reported by Forbes, Patrick Wardle, a former NSA staffer who is now head of research at Synack, claims that he wrote code able to exploit the vulnerability despite Apple’s latest version of Yosemite that was supposed to have
BBC is making a Grand Theft Auto drama. So explosions, hookers, heists and bloody tales of revenge are all in store, right? Not quite. This 90-minute show, tentatively titled “Game Changer,” is instead focused on the making of the popular open-world gaming franchise and how its creators persevered against anti-violence activists and politicians who wanted their games banned from store shelves. Details on the show have been a bit murky
If you’ve got a Microsoft Band on your wrist (or you’re planning on joining the club) then you’ll be interested in a batch of new updates pushed out of Redmond today – especially if you’re a keen cyclist. It’s another “important step forward” for the wearable, Microsoft says. First up, the popular biking apps MapMyRide and Strava now work seamlessly with the Microsoft Band, so you can pipe data from
By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – PSA Peugeot Citroen and IBM are working together to hook cars up to the Internet, going beyond mapping and infotainment to link vehicles up to shops, service networks and urban transport grids, the companies said on Wednesday. The agreement to develop new types of valued-added services for vehicles builds on an initial partnership between the automaker and technology consultant announced a year ago. Software
Japanese consumer electronics firm Sony Corp raised its earnings estimates for the second time in three months on Wednesday, citing higher than expected sales of video games and digital cameras. Sony said it probably made an operating profit of 68 billion yen ($569 million) in the year ended March 31, compared with 26.5 billion yen a year earlier. Sony is set to make its official earnings statement for the year
