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Phones
Apple said to bet big on iPhone 7
Tim Biggs 10:36 AM Reports of a huge Apple order and fresh leaked images indicate iPhone 7 could deliver the biggest shake-up to the smartphone in years.
The future of phones is modular
What would your dream smartphone look like? Time to dust off your thinking cap.
Doom review: Hell's welcome return
Facebook probe shows no evidence of bias
Visintg the Computer History Museum
Why the 'Windows Phone' is officially dead
Google grants Aussie pollies free soapbox
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Innovation
Google patents human flypaper
Tech giant invents weird solution to reduce impact of cars colliding with pedestrians.
Ted Pretty's next big bet is farm data
RP Data chairman Ted Pretty wants to create a rural property version of the company.
Tech
Android, Chrome OS come closer together
Alistair Barr Google said its Android mobile app store will run on the internet giant's Chrome OS for personal computers, the latest sign of the two operating systems slowly converging.
Google's Project Tango: phone augmented reality
Adam Turner Rather than imagine how that new couch will look in your lounge room, Google's augmented reality smartphone lets you drop virtual objects into the real world.
Web
When YouTube pranks break the law
Katie Rogers In the world of YouTube pranks, long one of the platform's most popular genres, it's usually all fun and games — until someone incites a public panic and gets arrested.
AI
Chatty AI at core of Google future
Adam Turner Search company introduces new chat and video calling apps, plus a home device that will take your verbal instructions.
Comment
I hate my iPhone, and I'm not alone
There's a nagging feeling that Apple hasn't been giving us what we want for a while now.
Social
Russian app identifies strangers from photos
Ben Guarino Software allows you to use a photo of a stranger to track down their profile on eastern Europe's most popular social network.
VR
Daydream to bring high quality VR to Android N
Adam Turner Google has unveiled a second-generation virtual reality viewer, accompanied by a motion controller, as it prepares to build its new Daydream VR platform into the upcoming Android N smartphone operating system.
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Increasing demand from Israel start-ups
Rapidly expanding tech scene is turning to Australia for capital — and experience.
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.
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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.
