Once a small studio that put experimentation and game design first, Halfbrick was changed forever when its game unexpectedly became one of the most successful ever.

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Deleting your account won't even save you, the best way to protect your privacy is to use a one-off email address.

Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has again rejected claims the social network affected the US presidential election, saying it is "extremely unlikely" news hoaxes changed the outcome.

Facebook users have expressed confusion after receiving a banner message on their profile pages and news feeds, which flagged their account as memorialised, as if they had died.

Australia's federal fisheries authority is exploring an ambitious plan to stream live footage from fishing vessels in a bid to improve its ability to respond to controversial reports that nets are killing endangered marine animals.

Determined to bring his Mr Tradie idea to life, Australian entrepreneur Ishan Dan soon discovered that hiring an app developer is a lot like hiring a tradie.

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Facebook has vowed to crack down on misinformation and burst the "filter bubble", highlighted by the US election, but can you save people from their own willing gullibility?

New release puts Google into a niche but increasingly competitive market.

Infinite Warfare might be the best Call of Duty in years, but Activision's cash-cow is not the bleeding edge of cinematic thrills it once was.

'The real victor is the US public which is better informed as a result of our work,' Assange wrote. 'It would be unconscionable for WikiLeaks to withhold such an archive from the public during an election.'

With US election fever hitting its climax the web is filling with dubious information, from concerted efforts to influence voters to straight-up trolling to old-fashioned clickbait.

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Putting most free-to-air broadcasts at your fingertips, most of the time, the Freeview FV app is a rare sign of cooperation between Australia's squabbling TV networks.

The treatment program at Australia's first specialist, virtual-reality phobia treatment clinic includes frightening encounters with digitally-generated spiders, heights, dentists and more.

Objects In Space is an open world stealth space trading game currently being built by Sydney-based indie studio Flat Earth Games. When I say built, I mean that literally.

Customers already locked in to Creative Cloud subscriptions will soon be paying 10 per cent more.

Anyone who has used the Gmail app on both Android and iPhone has noticed that one version is far inferior to the other. While Google has tended to make sure its offerings across all platforms are of a high quality, Gmail on iPhone has — for whatever reason — remained a weird, squashed and semi-broken version of its mobile website since 2012.

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Wandering around Melbourne's PAX gaming expo you soon realise that it's less about what you can see and more about what you can do.

Samsung plans to equip its next Galaxy S phones with a Siri-like digital assistant.

Huawei has finally revealed the Mate 9, alongside a special Porsche edition of the smartphone and the Huawei Fit Fitness tracker.