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Just Dance 2016 review

Ben Grubb I am a hot, sweaty mess. Why? Because I've just finished dancing (yes, dancing) to Demi Lovato's "Cool For The Summer".

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Apple buys Star Wars tech firm

Marco della Cava Company's motion capture tech allows animated avatars to double the facial movements of real actors.

Raspberry Pi Zero is incredibly small, costs $7

Anonymous group hacks IS, tells them to chill out

Synology's latest NAS might be overkill

Digital licences: what if your phone dies?

HTC Desire 626 review: a cheap sugar hit

Will devices destroy the world?

Drew Turney The electronics boom causes massive environmental and social damage.

'Phuc Dat Bich' faked it: awkward name a hoax

Kate Aubusson, Timna Jacks The Australian man who claimed his name was 'Phuc Dat Bich' has admitted it was a hoax.

PlayStation 2 games coming to PlayStation 4

Keegan Thomson Gamers rejoice at news Sony is working on a way to play PlayStation 2 games work on PlayStation 4.

Killed in a car accident: Sarah Durazza.

Demerit points for drivers using phones doubled

Akansha Singh The NSW government is making no apologies for raising the demerit penalty for mobile phone use while driving to six points.

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'Hoverboards' on Xmas naughty list

Keegan Thomson Children across NSW could be waking up disappointed on Christmas Day if their parents follow the advice of the state's Minister for Roads Duncan Gay.

Secret origins of encrypted app Telegram

Caitlin Dewey Multiple security experts have claimed Telegram is actually not all that secure: a flaw that may reflect the fact that Telegram wasn't initially conceived as an encrypted messaging platform.

NSW Minister for Finance and Services Dominic Perrottet.

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Digital licences coming to NSW

Keegan Thomson The NSW state government is following up its 2015 election promise to deliver digital licences, with the first downloadable batch coming out mid 2016.

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Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, inspects New Shepard’s West Texas launch facility before the rocket’s maiden voyage.

'Holy Grail of rocketry' achieved

Dominic Gates Amazon boss and space pioneer Jeff Bezos has scored an historic technical achievement.

Apple's Siri together with voice-control initiatives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and several startups, is poised to change the way we think of computers.

Tech giants divided over digital assistants

Julia Love and Yasmeen Abutaleb As tech giants race to build ever better AI platforms, they are obsessing over their digital assistants' personalities.

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Is it really free Wi-Fi?

Andrew Colley 12:33 PM Shopping centre and cinema giant Scentre Group has analysed the air above the heads of shoppers in its Westfield malls in Australia and has found that those who tune in to its Wi-Fi are bigger spenders than those who don't.

Phoenix rises from the ashes to battle Aussie bushfires

Bennett Ring 1:02 PM Firefighters and planners are using an Australian-made bushfire simulator to help them do their job.

Cyber spies raise their game against pro-democracy Chinese

Clare Baldwin, James Pomfret and Jeremy Wagstaff 10:12 AM Almost a year after students ended pro-democracy street protests in Hong Kong, they face an online battle against what Western security experts say are China-sponsored hackers using techniques rarely seen elsewhere.