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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

'Sniffer mice' may soon be used to detect bombs

Genetically modified ''sniffer mice'' will have a nose for explosives.

Bridie Smith 2:00 AM   Mice genetically engineered to sniff out bombs could one day join dogs in the hunt for explosives.

Juno enters Jupiter's orbit, capping five-year voyage

The Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter

Kenneth Chang   Ducking through intense belts of violent radiation as it skimmed over the clouds of Jupiter at 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h), NASA's Juno spacecraft on Monday finally clinched its spot in the orbit of the solar system's largest planet.

Juno arrives at Jupiter with help from Canberra

An artist's impression of the Juno spacecraft above the planet Jupiter.

Alexandra Back   Researchers at Canberra's deep space complex were jointly tasked with communicating with Juno as it finally shifted into Jupiter's orbit.

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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.

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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.