Technology news
Hands on: Samsung's Ultra HD Blu-ray player
Adam Turner High Dynamic Range continues to prove its importance as Samsung's UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player lands on Australian shelves.
The little gadget behind Big Sport
Hannah Francis It's called the OptimEye S5 and it's designed in Australia.
Islamic State launches app for children
Future of chatbots and artificial intelligence
Australia has a new social crowdfunding platform
Samsung dumps 3D TV as viewers look elsewhere
Apple denies plans to kill off iTunes downloads
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Games
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End review
Tim Biggs Another masterpiece from one of the best makers of AAA games in the world.
Google to ban payday loan advertisements
Andrea Peterson and Jonnelle Marte The search site will ban all payday loan ads from its site amid concerns the lending practice exploits the poor and vulnerable via loans with sky-high interest rates.
Piracy
Blocking piracy websites has proven effective
Andrew Colley Website blocking has reduced online movie piracy and is playing a role increasing take-up of legitimate sources of content in the UK, according to new research.
Seven's fragmented HD revival divides a nation
Adam Turner Melburnians will see more of their favourite shows in high definition than Sydneysiders as Seven's commitment to broadcast the AFL in high-def forces it to divide its efforts across the country.
Piracy
Game of Thrones pirates get warning letters
Hannah Francis Studio teams up with Melbourne pirate-hunting firm to track down alleged copyright infringers.
Mobiles
The LG G5 smartphone is fresh but flimsy
Hannah Francis We don't want our phones to be like Frankenstein's monster, confused about their identity and not functioning quite the way their maker intended.
NBN
Get your face on an NBN satellite rocket
Rae Johnston The NBN's second satellite, Sky Muster II, is launching in a rocket that will have a unique feature — artwork with the faces of 1210 Australians.
Hands on: Kindle Oasis ebook reader
Everything's thinned down, but its hard to get past the bloated price.
Web
Godwin's law of Nazi analogies lives on
Ben Guarino 'As an online discussion grows longer,' wrote Mike Godwin in 1994, 'the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one'. It appears this hasn't changed.
Latest from IT Pro
IBM is training Watson to hunt hackers
Andrea Peterson Tech giant is taking a big data approach to cybersecurity that will have the supercomputer scour vast troves of security research at a rate humans could only dream of.
'1000 will have to go. It's that simple'
Henry Belot Fear government's cyber security recruitment drive will lead to job cuts.
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'.
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Blogs & Columns
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.
