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Tech
Robots take the field in RoboCup
Their ultimate goal? To beat the human World Cup champs within the next 35 years.
Activist forces AEC to release code
Mahesh Sharma Electoral Commission made to disclose the source code of software that counts Senate preference votes after it refused to comply with FOI.
Silent Circle goes global with private calling plans
Finger-mounted device reads to blind
Security vulnerability found in smart bulbs
Taxis tied to credit card skimming
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DPP given drone collision evidence
Ben Grubb Operators of a drone involved in injuring athlete referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions by the CASA.
Tech
NASA robots get Android brains
3D-sensing Google smartphones will become the brains and eyes of ball-shaped hovering robots on the International Space Station.
Internet
How free will the net be in 2025?
Elizabeth Weise Increasing commercialisation and government control may destroy net neutrality and limit future generations' idea of web, expert says..
Drones
China's drones to combat polluters
Kari Paul Drones can detect pollution from factories even at night.
Sci-tech
NASA approves deep-space rocket
W.J. Hennigan NASA gives the go-ahead to start full production.
Social
Facebook studies had few limits
Philip Sherwell Researchers at Facebook were given almost free rein.
Tech
Technical issues plague online tax
Ben Grubb People prevented from lodging their tax returns online.
Right to be forgotten
Backlash from publishers
Rose Powell Publishers of "removed" stories are fighting back.
Apps
Amazon plans to fight lawsuit
Amazon could be over apps bought by children with parents' consent.
Blogs & Columns
Gadgets on the Go
iTunes Extras coming to iOS 8 and Apple TV
Adam Turner Movie special features have returned to the Apple TV and are coming to iGadgets later this year.
Screenplay
Infamous Second Son: Powerful
The lively Second Son clearly has ambitions to be more serious than the PlayStation 3 Infamous games.
Imaging
Losing perspective with a compact
Terry Lane Dealing with Converging Verticals Phobia and the Sony RX 100 Mk III.
MacMan
Time for an iWatch
Garry Barker The sum of Apple's latest developments is much greater than its parts.
Bleeding Edge
Computer users seem too busy to be efficient
Charles Wright People could be so much more efficient if they studied user manuals or, even better, trawled online forums for information on how other users – those comparative few who delve more deeply into IT tools – put them to use.
Astronomy
Sky-high meaning in Brazil's flag
Perry Vlahos As the host nation for the World Cup soccer tournament, Brazil's flag is flying high, and it's loaded with symbolism.
