• Tim Biggs
• 1h ago

Gorgeous game reminds of the golden age of roleplaying in all the right ways while striking a tone that's very much its own.

• Steven Overly

Dropping your smartphone mid-selfie may soon be less traumatic.

• Joe Shute, Tom Ough

Eccentric, board game-loving visionary runs the mysterious firm behind the record-breaking app.

• George Filip

Research shows that it takes a person up to 15 seconds to resume control of a car after letting it drive itself.

• Marcus Strom

Fear of extinction is beginning to give way to hope for survival in the wild as a Barrington Tops refuge for Tassie Devils offers hope for a cancer-stricken population.

• COMMENT
• Adam Turner

Designed to stream 4K video while reducing traffic jams, Linksys' new EA9500 tri-band wireless router runs an NBN-ready superhighway through your home.

• Adam Turner

As millions of Australian homes wait for the NBN to reach their door, Lightning Broadband is deploying a wireless network promising fibre-like download speeds to suburban users.

• Jonah Engel Bromwich

Many new technologies are born with a bang, and old ones often die with a whimper. So it is for videocassette recorders, or VCR, that once-revolutionary device.

• Chris Jager

Still haven't upgraded your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 device to Microsoft's latest OS? You might want to pull your finger out asap.

• Bridie Smith

According to Adelaide University forensic anthropologist Teghan Lewis, the chance of two people looking the same is not as common as an internet search suggests.

• COMMENT
• Adam Turner

An in-car gadget charger which remembers where you parked, the Zus aims to ensure you don't misplace your wheels.

The owner of file-sharing website KAT was indicted in the United States on Wednesday for copyright infringement related to the distribution of more than $US1 billion worth of movies, video games, music recordings and other content, US justice officials said.

• Karen Zraick

The smartphone game is bringing people together all over the globe as it expands to new countries, but not everyone is happy about it.

• Amy Ellis Nutt

In a study published online in Nature, a team of researchers more than doubled the number of distinct areas known in the human cortex, from 83 to 180. This new map of the brain combines data from four different imaging technologies to essentially bring high-definition to brain scanning for the first time.

• Games
• Tim Biggs

While many of the athletes taking part in next month's Olympic Games have spent their whole lives training for the event, many more of us have spent our lives training for games of a different kind.

• Bridie Smith

Scientists are close to developing a blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear.

• Social
• Mike Isaac

Milo Yiannopoulos, known on Twitter as @Nero, has been one of the most egregious and consistent offenders against Twitter's terms of service. In an attempt to show that it is cracking down on abuse, Twitter has now blocked his account.

• Phones
• Tim Biggs

New images posted online appear to lend weight to the long-circulating rumour that Apple will announce three, not two, versions of its upcoming iPhone 7.

• Peter Wells

HP's latest is an awkward fashion model: wafer thin with well developed specs and garish looks.