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Shot in Dolby Vision HDR, blockbuster movies like <i>Deadpool</i> may decide what's best for your lounge room.

Hollywood to take control of your television

Adam Turner 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 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

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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What did he say? New technology can put words in other people's mouths.

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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After making a big splash on PC, Samurai Punk's <i>Screencheat</i> was able to make the rare conversion to consoles.

How Screencheat defied the odds

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

While the NBN is open to trialling new technologies like fibre-to-the-distribution-point, CEO BIll Morrow's hands are ...

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.

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow says there are cheaper ways to achieve targets than to "infill" the gaps in the HFC networks.

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.

Shedding drivers would save Uber a lot of money.

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.

Jack Dorsey is back in charge of Twitter - now he has to find a way to keep it relevant.

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.