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How one man 'wrote' 8.5 per cent of Wikipedia
Eryk Bagshaw Swedish physicist Sverker Johansson is, arguably, the world's most prolific writer.
Phase-changing robots ahead
Lance Ulanoff New material that can switch between pliable and solid could give future robots shape-shifting capabilities.
Boy found to be allergic to his iPad
Drones pose growing privacy risk: report
LG builds flexible TV you can roll up
Internet makes us stupid: study
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Robots take the field in RoboCup
Football-playing machines line up for their chance to take the cup. Their ultimate goal? To beat the human World Cup champs within the next 35 years.
Security
Silent Circle's private calling plans
Eric Auchard Company unveils one of the best commercial options for individuals and business to make encrypted phone calls.
Tech
Finger device reads to blind
MIT scientists developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired.
Tech
DPP given drone collision evidence
Ben Grubb Operators of a drone involved in injury athlete referred to DPP.
Tech
NASA robots get Android brains
3D-sensing Google smartphones will become the brains and eyes of ball-shaped hovering robots.
Tech
Bandits in brazen Samsung heist
Thieves make off with $6.6m worth of devices in attack on factory.
Security
Taxis tied to card skimming
Rose Powell Sydney taxi users targeted bsyndicate of fraudsters.
Internet
How free will the net be in 2025?
Elizabeth Weise Future generations' may have "limited" idea of web.
Drones
China's drones to combat polluters
Kari Paul Drones can detect pollution from factories even at night.
Blogs & Columns
Gadgets on the Go
Hands on: FRITZ!Box 7490 modem/router
Adam Turner With a super-fast 802.11ac wi-fi revamp, the flagship FRITZ!Box 7490 is the Swiss Army knife of prosumer modem/routers.
Imaging
Street photography rules
Terry Lane David Gibson, author of The Street Photographer’s Manual, is very prescriptive when defining street photography.
MacMan
Time for an iWatch
Garry Barker The sum of Apple's latest developments is much greater than its parts.
Astronomy
Buzz Aldrin saw 'unidentified' object during 1969 Apollo 11 flight
David Milward Second man to walk on moon convinced life exists elsewhere in space but denies his sighting was extraterrestrial.