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GTA and our problem with games
Tim Biggs 11:34 AM There are still many who refuse to consider the worth of games alongside film and TV as entertainment for adults.
'Zuckerberg of Russia' in exile
Danny Hakim 12:17 PM Back in 2006 Pavel Durov created a social network that become a huge success. Now Putin owns it, and Durov's on the run.
Target Australia pulls GTA V from shelves
Steve Jobs' iPod obsession shown in court
Apple loses appeal to trademark 'app store'
Facebook, Twitter face $17,000 fines
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Games
Bring order to chaos: a Dragon Age Inquisition interview
James 'DexX' Dominguez Dragon Age: Inquisition is a sprawling fantasy epic, and creative director Mike Laidlaw explains how this intricate world of demons and monster was built.
Tech
Hawking: AI 'could spell the end of the human race'
Rhiannon Williams Stephen Hawking has unveiled his new "life-changing" communications platform — which helps him to speak twice as quickly through a predictive text system — while at the same time expressing that the technology's extrapolation into full artificial intelligence "could spell the end of the human race".
Cyber bullying
Twitter to make it easier to report abuse
Twitter is trying to make it easier for victims and witnesses to report online harassment.
Children's e-Safety Commissioner aims to clean up the net, yet again
Adam Turner Can Australia's cyber bully buster succeed where politicians have failed in the past?
Robots
Forget elves, Amazon recruits robots for holiday rush
Deepa Seetharaman Don't tell the children, but the little helpers processing thousands of gifts in Amazon's newest order fulfillment centers aren't elves, but bright orange robots.
Australian internet connections slowed down by submarine cable fault
Ben Grubb Web pages loading slowly? A submarine fibre-optic cable fault between Perth and Singapore could be the reason.
Publishing
Microsoft Clip Art is dead as Bing takes over Office image duties
Tim Biggs Microsoft has closed its Clip Art library, marking the end of an era for fans of the abstract, fuzzy cartoons used in desktop publishing since the 90s.
Social
Does posting rap lyrics on Facebook constitute a threat?
Lawrence Hurley US case tests limit of free speech, asks whether a person must intend to threaten for a crime to have been committed, or if it is enough that they "should have known" they could cause fear.
Halfbrick Fruit Ninjas go out on their own with new game
Kim Stephens Two developers from Halfbrick - the company that started Fruit Ninja - have started their operation and launched a new game of their own.
Blogs & Columns
Gadgets on the Go
Children's e-Safety Commissioner aims to clean up the net, yet again
Adam Turner Can Australia's cyber bully buster succeed where politicians have failed in the past?
Imaging
Family slide night a thing of beauty
Sending a link to a Flickr album is the easiest way to share a photo collection.
MacMan
Users monitor consumption with menu monitor
Garry Barker During its seven years of service, iStat Menus has been downloaded millions of times.
Astronomy
Astronomy can be life changing: Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith
Clare Colley Wi-Fi, advanced medical imaging and algorithms to detect skin cancer all have one thing in common - they were all offshoots of astronomy, CSIRO astronomer Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith says.
