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Inside the fascinating, bizarre world of Doomsday preppers
Caitlin Dewey 9:38 AM It's a sign that the much-maligned prepper movement has finally gone mainstream.
The cunning chimp who brought down a drone
Rachel Feltman 5:46 AM Researchers say an attack on a drone by a zoo chimpanzee was premeditated.
IFA 2015: Samsung Ultra HD Blu-ray players coming to Australia in 2016
Adam Turner 5:12 AM Berlin: With Hollywood finally agreeing on a new disc standard, Samsung will offer bandwidth-poor Australians their first taste of Ultra HD content early next year.
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Sex sites off limits, public service love rats warned
Noel Towell Marriage vows are one thing, but the public service Code of Conduct, that's serious.
Undersea cable would connect Sunshine Coast directly to internet
Tony Moore A plan to make the Sunshine Coast a vital internet gateway is luring Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to the area on Friday to view the proposal in person.
Human Services' computers keep disabled out of work
Noel Towell Disabled workers are caught in bureaucratic limbo by problematic computer systems.
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'UNSW is drunk': university's Facebook page hacked
Harriet Alexander 3:15 PM UNSW staff are scrambling to contain an embarrassing outbreak of undergraduate humour, after the university's Facebook page was hacked on its annual open day.
Why Twitter's most famous feature is its biggest flaw
10:22 AM As with so many of the technologies that are now part of our digital furniture, one of Twitter's most famous features - the 140 character limit - was incidental and also largely accidental.
Robot to destroy starfish on Great Barrier Reef
An autonomous robot that can administer a lethal injection is set to be the latest weapon in the fight against the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Gadgets on the Go
IFA 2015: Samsung Ultra HD Blu-ray players coming to Australia in 2016
Adam Turner 5:12 AM Berlin: With Hollywood finally agreeing on a new disc standard, Samsung will offer bandwidth-poor Australians their first taste of Ultra HD content early next year.
Social Radar
Teens choose 'real' friends over Facebook friends
Laura Demasi Australian teens no longer live and breath Facebook, turning instead to messaging apps like WhatsApp and Kick to create micro networks of "real" friends where they can say what they want in private, away from the ever present eyes of hundreds of "friends" – including their parents.
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For one school, from small things big things grew
Garry Barker One school in Britain transformed itself and the lives of many people in its community by putting the right technology in the hands of its students.
Imaging
The art of the image in politics
Terry Lane The striking thing about the photos in Political Vision is that they are all taken by a photographer standing in exactly the right place at the right time.
