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Netflix fast-tracks streaming to woo heroes
Adam Turner 2:20 PM Fans of The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl will only need to wait days rather than months for new seasons to appear on Netflix as the streaming giant works to fast-track content.
What Pokemon GO is all about
Gotta catch 'em all: the augmented reality app has taken the world by storm.
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Manchester City signs first eSports player
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Hack
Second 'Fappening' hacker pleads guilty
Rae Johnston An Illinois man has been charged with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to over 300 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.
Phones
Teamed with Leica, Huawei lifts its game
Peter Wells I've tested a lot of Huawei handsets over the last few years, and while they were all technically impressive, none were interesting enough to write about. The new Huawei P9 changes that.
Apps
Smartphone health data slammed as 'voodoo'
Andrew Masterson The widespread use of smartphones to collect healthcare data has been thrown into doubt by a couple of recent studies.
Games
Inside is a beautiful and terrifying adventure game
Tim Biggs Play Dead's second game is one of the most surprising and thematically challenging of recent memory.
Gadgets
Dyson hair dryer is nifty, but still just a hair dryer
Hannah Francis The iconic vacuum brand launches its debut beauty product. But is it worth the $700 price tag?
Imaging
Photoshop Elements now great value for money
Terry Lane Now that Photoshop is a subscription-only option, those who are wary of the Creative Cloud system may consider a couple of alternatives – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop Elements, now up to version 14.
Audio
Turntable market bubbles despite verbiage
Rod Easdown Making good quality hifi equipment is hard. Finding a PR person who has more neurons than an amoeba is apparently even harder.
Social
Twitter introduces 'a visual spin on the hashtag'
Abby Ohlheiser Twitter will have stickers soon, just like Snapchat, so that you can add cute little symbolic expressions to your photos. The stickers will be searchable, like a "visual spin on the hashtag".
Meet Japan's new must-have home appliance
Reed Stevenson It's a plain little oven, but what comes out is both mundane and magical: perfectly toasted bread.
Latest from Sci-Tech
Magnetic brain stimulation can help treat drug-resistant depression, study finds
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Bridie Smith 12:49 AM The once-controversial method of beaming magnetic fields into the frontal areas of the brain to treat depression has been shown to help those with drug-resistant depression.
Jewish space flight historian struggles with rocket science's Nazi history
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Andrew Masterson 12:15 AM "It's not like my family used to have, you know, a daily Nazi lesson," said Amy
'Sniffer mice' may soon be used to detect bombs
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Bridie Smith 2:00 AM Mice genetically engineered to sniff out bombs could one day join dogs in the hunt for explosives.
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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.