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Twitter finally has a proper Australian office.

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Inside Twitter's swanky new Australian office

Spandas Lui 10:11 AM The US-based social media company has finally settled into a fancy permanent workspace in Sydney. We take you on a guided tour.

SMS scam imitates your bank

Hannah Francis 2:18 PM It looks identical to your bank's online portal. But don't be fooled.

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Netflix VPN crackdown hits PayPal customers

Take Google's security challenge to beat hackers

Telstra outage was not the apocalypse

Why you should think twice about Thermomix

Businesses out of pocket after Telstra's outage

Why do we listen to music? The search for the brain's music room

Natalie Angier It's one of humanity's greatest pleasures and has been with us since the beginning. Now scientists are starting to discover what part of our brain connects to music.

Telstra chief operating officer Kate McKenzie said the fault was caused by "an embarrassing human error".

Telstra outage blamed on 'embarrassing error'

Kate Aubusson 8:17 AM Telstra has blamed a manager for the widespread network outage that affected millions of customers who were unable to make calls or access data for several hours on Tuesday.

Robots

Cockroach-inspired robots the future of rescue

People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational.

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A map of areas affected by outages on the Australian Telstra network on Tuesday.

Phones

Major Telstra mobile outage

Kate Aubusson and Tim Biggs A widespread interruption to Telstra mobile service is being felt across the country.

A particularly annoying specimen, the Kuku virus disables the keyboard and fills the screen with colourful tiles that ...

History

Relive the golden age of computer viruses

Abby Ohlheiser In the early days of computer viruses, a lot of malware had a tendency to announce its presence with some text or a flashy graphic. Now you can relive the sometimes funny, but often crappy reality of watching some of the earliest malware infect an MS-DOS computer.

Sennheiser's HE1060 headphones sound exquisite, but cost as much as a Beemer.

The best sounds you'll never afford to hear

Rod Easdown How can a pair of headphones be worth $75,000? The short answer is that by any normal measure they aren't. Ah, but this is hi-fi and normal measures do not apply.

Violinist Rosemary Johnson aged approximately 17.

Tech

Mind-reading tech helps violinist play again

Sarah Knapton Rosemary Johnson has made music for the first time since suffering a devastating car crash in her 20s.

Web

Wired debuts ad-free website

Joshua Brustein Web publishing pioneer, which' invented the banner ad', decides on a new paradigm to fight threat to ad revenue.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been charged with 'fixing' Twitter, but it won't be easy.

Web

Twitter considering Facebook-style algorithm?

Sarah Frier An uproar over the weekend gave CEO Jack Dorsey a stark reminder of how hard it's going to be to fix the microblogging service.

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Good riddance to the Java plugin

Brian Krebs Long overdue step should cut down dramatically on the number of computers infected with malicious software.

Australian companies 'open to cyber crime'

Stuart Condie Local super funds, insurers and corporates all guilty of caving to hackers, thereby perpetuating cyber-crime, according to Deloitte.

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Remembering the failed Aussie start-ups of yesteryear

Claire Connelly Failed start-ups are a dime a dozen. But you wouldn't know it from the Australian market which, unlike that of our American cousins, prefers to hide its failures and slink quietly into that good night instead of exploring the lessons gleaned from failure.

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