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Hollywood to take control of your television

Adam Turner 11:01 AM   Not satisfied with releasing a director's cut, filmmakers want the next generation of High Dynamic Range movies to override your picture settings to preserve their artistic vision.

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Heartbreak goes viral after Brussels

Tim Biggs 8:13 AM   The Brussels attacks as seen on social media followed a depressingly familiar, but no less powerful, trajectory in the hours after the deadly blasts.

Facebook removes video of dancing 5­-year-­old

Dolby HDR peers into the heart of darkness

Apple just made its iPad Pro redundant

SE: how much 'Australia tax'?

Taxi booking app ihail waved through by ACCC

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Phones

Apple reveals new smaller iPhone SE

Tim Biggs   At a special 'Town Hall' event in Cupertino, California, Apple unveiled its new iPhone SE, a 4-inch phone with many of the hardware advantages of the latest flagships.

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Software

Creepy software lets you control Trump's face

Hannah Francis   Some politicians are referred to as puppets. Now you can put your words right into their mouths.

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How Screencheat defied the odds

Tim Biggs   In our under-supported games industry, a killer concept helps.

NBN trials faster FttDP, but don't get hopes up

Adam Turner   It boosts broadband speeds, cuts installation costs and reduces rollout times, but it's wishful thinking to hope that the NBN will fully embrace fibre-to-the-distribution-point.

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NBN

NBN to deploy fibre-to-the-node within HFC

Adam Turner   Suburban homes and buildings skipped by Telstra and Optus cable networks may be connected to the NBN by alternative technologies, counter to previous rollout plans, Bill Morrow says.

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Car tech

Uber in the market for a fleet of self-driving cars

Edward Taylor, Harro Ten Wolde   Uber would make drastic savings on its biggest cost — drivers — if it were able to incorporate self-driving cars into its fleet.

Games

Nintendo social app Miitomo is a hit

Pavel Alpeyev and Takashi Amano   Nintendo is seeking to bring back players who migrated away from games on company's dedicated hardware.

10-year-old Twitter struggles to grow up

Jessica Guynn   Love it or hate it, Twitter has been with us for 10 years now. Despite it having a pile of cash there are still serious doubts about the social media company's chances of survival.

Snap crackle and Pope: Francis joins Instagram

Pope Francis has launched a new Instagram account with an image of himself praying.

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Barack Obama weighs in on iPhone access debate

President Barack Obama talks with Evan Smith, Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tribune, during South by Southwest.

Jeff Mason   Aiming to sidestep Apple's dispute with the FBI, US president makes case for access to device data in certain circumstances.

Government acknowledges ACT's poor internet but sticks to NBN plan

Communicatios Minister Mitch Fifield acknowledged the poor connectivity in suburbs such as Theodore but said the ...

Henry Belot   Minister for Communications acknowledges some areas of Canberra's southern suburbs have poor internet access.

Apple v FBI: what the fight is about and why you should care

A row of colourful iPhone 5Cs.

Hannah Francis   Apple is in the middle of a legal fight with the FBI over creating a 'back door' to unlock a terrorist's iPhone.

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Gadgets on the Go

Hands on review: LG flat Ultra HD OLED EF950T television

Adam Turner   Finally conceding that not everyone is in love with curved screens, LG has delivered a flat Ultra HD OLED masterpiece with full HDR support to help it look better than ever.

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Social Radar

Should you stalk your child's smartphone?

Catherine Armitage   Keeping an eye over your child's shoulder on the home computer is so last century

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How my Apple Watch saved my life

Garry Barker   I woke up feeling a bit odd. I strapped on my Apple Watch, unlocked the iPhone, and then felt for my pulse on my right wrist. Soon I was in the hospital cardiac unit for observation and treatment.

Imaging

Not wholly negative: digitising your old photographs

Terry Lane   Unearthing your own archive of long-ago photographic negatives and slides opens the mind to the world that was – and perhaps points to money to be made.