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Remove Apple QuickTime from your PC now
Brian Krebs Now that Apple has abandoned the software on Windows, hackers will be looking to exploit is vulnerabilities to take control of your machine.
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Scammers pretending to be your boss
Adam Turner Australians are being urged to think twice before transferring funds or handing over sensitive information at work amid a global spike in business-focused spear-phishing attacks.
Earthlight: one giant leap for virtual reality
Bennett Ring How NASA is helping an Aussie game developer to create one of this year's most anticipated VR experiences.
Google Chrome scraps support for XP, others
Adam Turner The push for us to upgrade our old computers continues, with the latest version of Google's Chrome web browser dropping support for operating systems prior to Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Apps
CEO at 16: how Ben Pasternak made it happen
Hannah Francis Drop out of school, move to New York, schmooze investors, launch app – makes sense, right?
After conquering world with Apple, the Woz is heading our way
In this exclusive interview Andrew Masterson talks with Steve Wozniak, the engineering genius who with Steve Jobs created Apple and changed the world.
E-readers
Amazon's surprising new Kindle
Tim Biggs Designed to look and act like a book, e-readers don't get as many flashy updates or design overhauls as smartphones or tablets, but Amazon is looking to change that.
Turntables are cool. Good turntables are fiddly.
Rod Easdown Turntables may be the current retro chic but there are plenty of decidedly unsexy things about them that one only recalls when one starts seriously mucking about with them after a break of 30 years or so.
Belkin's sharp but buggy baby-cam
Peter Wells The Belkin NetCam HD+ is a fantastic little internet-connected camera that is often let down by its software and the ecosystem surrounding it.
For your ears only: The new wave of audiobooks
Joshua Jennings Audiobooks have been around since the heyday of cassette tapes. Increasingly, though, they are becoming very popular – among both time-poor commuters and long-haul truckies.
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Microsoft sues US government over gag orders on customer data grabs
Matt Day Tech company says US 'has exploited the transition to cloud computing as a means of expanding its power to conduct secret investigations'.
FBI paid professional hackers to crack San Bernardino iPhone
Ellen Nakashima The people who helped the US government come from the sometimes shadowy world of hackers and security researchers who profit from finding flaws in companies’ software or systems.
No gender pay gap at Microsoft, company says
Matt Day Software maker is the latest technology giant to release data on employee compensation amid pressure from shareholders.
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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.
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
MacMan
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.
