Top technology news
Street View
Take a dip or a hike with Google Street View
Nicole Hasham Hankering to see Mount Kosciuszko, the Great Barrier Reef or the penguins of Montague Island?
Piracy websites set to be blocked
Ben Grubb Pirate websites could soon be blocked if cabinet approves a Brandis and Turnbull submission.
Best smartwatches might play dumb
iOS 8 v Android 5.0 Lollipop
Click Frenzy hopes third time is lucky
Google to bring 'Project Loon' to Australia
Editor's picks
Games
From flipping burgers to video game super star
Conor Dougherty Matt Haag used to flip burgers at McDonald's. Now, 22, he makes $1 million playing Call of Duty.
Digital life
Future of Google Glass clouded
Alexei Oreskovic, Sarah McBride and Malathi Nayak While Glass may find some specialised, even lucrative, uses in the workplace, its prospects of becoming a consumer hit in the near future are slim, many developers say.
Piracy
Game of Thrones pirates can be prosecuted
Ben Grubb When George Brandis said metadata collection "can't be" and "won't be" used to identify pirates, he was wrong.
Games
Assassin's Creed Unity review: this is not a revolution
James 'DexX' Dominguez The latest in the Assassin's Creed series gives us a wonderfully realised historical world and not much else.
A fond farewell to Nokia
Harry Wallop Ten years ago, its mobile phones contributed 25 per cent of Finland's growth – but a decade is a long time in tech.
Hiding your piracy metadata
Adam Turner How much will Australians spend to avoid paying for content?
Privacy
Facebook spells privacy policy out in plain English
Samantha Murphy Kelly Facebook updated its privacy policies on Thursday, but the real change came in the form of the site using basic language so people can better understand how everything works.
Get appy with snags and artist markets on election day
Hannah Francis Fancy a bacon and egg roll with your ballot paper? A handful of apps and websites can help you locate the best polling booths.
Travel tech
Essential travel apps that don't use data
Donald Strachan Here are some great apps you can use while travelling, without having using up expensive mobile roaming data.
Viral
The dark side of instant fame: Alex from Target speaks
Nick Bilton While the rise from high school student to global celebrity may be the stuff that teenagers dream of today, Alex and his family have had to deal with more serious consequences of web fame, such as death threats and cyber bullying.
Blogs & Columns
Gadgets on the Go
Netflix in Australia: will local users make the switch?
Adam Turner 10:41 AM Will Aussies sneaking into Netflix switch to the local service when it arrives next year?
Imaging
Electronic viewfinders have come a long way since 2005
Terry Lane Ten years ago we encountered our first EVF and wrote that it would never fly. They were crude devices that slowed the camera response so much that by the time the shutter fired the subject was already over the horizon. We apologise for being so wrong in 2005.
MacMan
Pocket Weather app reigns supreme
Garry Barker Through the magic of modern technology, the information in the Pocket Weather app is regularly updated from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's database, often every three minutes.
Astronomy
Age-old dream fulfilled as humans finally make contact with comet
Rachel Feltman Throughout human history, comets have been distant, mysterious heavenly bodies. The hunks of rock and ice streak through the sky, streaming bright tails of gas as the sun warms them.
