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Woman trolls Telstra with cat pictures

Hannah Francis   Laura Carrie has been without her Telstra broadband for two weeks and counting. But she made light of it with cat selfies.

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Hands on review: 360fly 4K 360-degree action camera

Adam Turner 9:30 AM   A sharper picture is a welcome addition to this tiny action camera with eyes in the back of its head.

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Games

Forza Horizon 3 brings racing to Australian roads

Tim Biggs   At last you can take a (virtual) Lamborghini down the Great Ocean Road ... or through a hills hoist.

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Glued to a small screen for all the news that fits

Ross Peake 9:00 AM   We're now spending more than an hour a day staring at our smartphones.

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Uber offers helicopters to escape Sao Paulo gridlock

Brad Haynes and Alberto Alerigi Jr   Until now, commuting by air to escape Sao Paulo's notorious gridlock was reserved mainly for the rich.

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The cartel hit man turned YouTube star

Christopher Mele and Sandra E. Garcia   Real-life 'Narcos' criminal says he's the living memory of Colombia's cocaine wars, and 'loved' Pablo Escobar.

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Search

Google under fire again for racist search results

Ben Guarino   A simple test substituting 'black' for 'white' elicited concerning search results. But who's to blame: society, or Google?

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Facebook subpoenaed over 'racist' QUT post

Student claims allegedly racist post was not written by him.

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Apple to display ads in search 

Charles Arthur   Controversial move will let app-makers pay to get in your results.

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ANU scientists involved in discovery of second confirmed gravitational wave

Professor David McClelland and Professor Susan Scott at the ANU Centre for Gravitational Physics.

April Dudgeon 9:50 PM   Canberra scientists help close the box on Einstein's theory.

Super-coral may take heat off reef bleaching

A diver checks out the Barrier Reef coral bleaching at Heron Island.

Peter Spinks 7:47 PM   The uncanny ability of Kimberley corals to withstand high levels of heat stress raises hopes for the stricken Great Barrier Reef.

A molecule found in deep space may explain life on earth (and elsewhere)

CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope detected a molecule that suggest life exists outside of earth.

Julie Power 4:08 PM   A molecule found in deep space may explain life on earth (and elsewhere)

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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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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.

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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.