• Inga Ting

The absurdity of teaching people to use passwords that are hard for humans to use but easy for computers to guess was beautifully captured in the much-loved web comic by Randall Munroe of Xkcd.

• Tim Biggs

New version of the autonomous vacuum robot comes with an app that lets you issue commands remotely.

• Kotaku

Over the past four decades, there have been some plain consoles, sometimes even some ugly consoles, but we don’t care about them today.

• Tim Biggs

A data scientist has analysed Donald Trump's Twitter feed and shown a reliable way to tell which tweets were sent by the controversial US presidential hopeful himself, and which were sent by one of his staff members.

• Caitlin Dewey

Mere months after Snapchat's Bob Marley filter, the app is at it again with a lens that makes users look a lot like a racist caricature.

• Mark Gurman

Apple is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, but we're not likely to see them anytime soon.

• COMMENT
• Peter Wells

Podcasts have been around for a decade, but remain hampered by both technical issues and content deficiencies.

• COMMENT
• Adam Turner

A malicious flash mob supposedly knocked out the census, rather than an attempted break-in, but either way the ABS needs to restore Australia's confidence in the system.

• Bridie Smith

What or who was behind this outback murder-mystery?

• Rod Easdown

Lots of people get their speaker placement all wrong.

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.

• Tim Biggs

That the site was attacked is not in the least bit surprising, but it's unexpected that an attack of this kind would result in the site going down.

• Steph Yin

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.

• Marcus Strom

Three tiny craft built in Australia are the first locally made satellites to go into space in 15 years.

• Tim Biggs

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.

• ANALYSIS
• Hayley Tsukayama

Will Apple's tampering with its most iconic feature mean less freedom for users, or will it mean a phone that's less likely to break?

• Alex Walker

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.

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.

• Bridie Smith

Gaming can boost students' school performance and should be incorporated into classroom activities.