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Apple crashes Samsung's Rio party

Apple watches with limited edition wristbands featuring national colours of teams.

Samsung is the mobile phone sponsor of the Rio Games and sells its handsets exclusively to hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to Olympic venues — but Apple is tempting some of them outside with its own unofficial Games merchandise.

The lingering embers of discovering fire

How did the harmful effects of fire shape our evolution?

Figuring out how to make fire was no doubt an evolutionary boon to our ancestors. But it may have led to our smoking habit and the emergence of tuberculosis.

Review: Kogan's first 'high-end' phone 

A very Huawei-ish back houses a prominent camera and the fingerprint scanner.

Known for its low-priced, no-frills smartphones, Australian retailer Kogan last week released its first 'high-end' phone, a machine that shares many bullet points with market-leading Android handsets but is sold at roughly a third of the price.

Sesame Street Fighter is today's best time waster

Fighters are mashups of Street Fighter and Sesame Street characters.

If you're desperately looking for any reason to waste time at work today that doesn't involve watching the Olympics, then let me introduce you to Sesame Street Fighter. It's Street Fighter in your browser, but with Sesame Street characters, Russian cities and German scientists. No, really.

First person to 'catch 'em all' not done yet

Self-proclaimed Pokemon Go master Nick Johnson.

Nick Johnson, who claims to be the first person to capture all 145 creatures now available in the Pokemon GO mobile gaming phenomenon, says he is not ready to put away his smartphone just yet and hopes for new features.

Changes to iPhone's home button incoming

We already suspected the new iPhone would lose its headphone jack, but will its home button go as well? Pictured here ...

New phones will be similar to the 6S and 6S Plus, sources say, but will feature a redesigned pressure-sensitive home button. The larger phone will also reportedly feature dual cameras.

Facebook uses Olympics to test Snapchat clone

Facebook's new feature shows a camera feed when you open the app, just like Snapchat.

When people in Brazil and Canada tapped on the Facebook app during the Olympics' opening ceremony, a camera appeared on top of the News Feed, making it easy to snap photos and videos and add Olympics-themed filters, frames and masks.