![Bright and playful, <i>Watch Dogs 2</i> is a hacker's paradise.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/j/z/0/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gszm2e.png/1480389948035.jpg)
![Bright and playful, <i>Watch Dogs 2</i> is a hacker's paradise.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/j/z/0/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gszm2e.png/1480389948035.jpg)
Apple could launch curved iPhone next year
![Designer Veniamin Geskin has been imagining curved iPhones for quite a while. Here his iPhone 8 concept is seen in a ...](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/p/2/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gszm95.png/1480378926722.jpg)
Next year is the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, so Apple should have surprises in store.
The man who earned billions - from selfies
![Kevin Systrom is neatly turned out, polite, a little dorky-looking even.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/x/b/6/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyqok.png/1480333839288.jpg)
For a man who practically invented the selfie, Kevin Systrom is remarkably unflash. Unfiltered, even.
Apple Glass: what the company needs to get right
![Will Apple be able to avoid the issues that sunk Google Glass?](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/2/k/o/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyyx1.png/1480301060278.jpg)
The Apple rumour mill is spinning with gossip that the company is reportedly developing and testing a set of augmented reality glasses. But can the iPhone-maker get it right?
Hands on: InkCase smartphone case
![Oaxis' InkCase i6 for the iPhone 6 builds an eBook reader into the back of your phone.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/z/9/9/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyya9.png/1480306563224.jpg)
Adding an eBook-style screen to the back of your smartphone, InkCase lets you keep tabs on the world while conserving your battery.
Deactivating Facebook was the best decision I ever made
![I didn't think Facebook was having a big impact on my life. I was in denial.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/f/k/g/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyu2h.png/1480290923758.jpg)
For the longest time I'd been extremely defensive about my use of Facebook, but I realised my behaviour had become compulsive and was stealing time from my family.
Reddit CEO admits to editing users' posts
![Steve Huffman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Reddit.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/t/3/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyssz.png/1480286302494.jpg)
Steve Huffman, the chief executive of Reddit, knows he has some explaining to do.
Trump Tower renamed Dump Tower on Google Maps
![Trump](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/k/x/6/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyqjn.png/1480316937097.jpg)
Someone renamed Donald Trump's midtown Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn't very flattering.
Amazon Video launch could bring Chromecast's arch rival to Australia
![Amazon's The Grand Tour has come to Australia, but there's no simple way to watch it on your television.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/a/l/6/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsx9up.png/1480231041035.jpg)
Aussies can already watch The Grand Tour, but will we see Amazon's Fire TV streaming players after December's official Prime Video launch?
Apple's iPhones should still be made in China
![The US lacks the workforce and supply chains necessary for Apple to move its iPhone operation back home.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/a/m/d/i/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsx5lp.png/1480034487239.jpg)
An American iPhone looks like just one more empty campaign promise. Here's why.
The top 10 tech flops of 2016
![Samsung introduced the Note 7 in August and recalled the first batch in September after customers reported they were ...](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/2/z/7/3/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsw7lr.png/1479970369528.jpg)
What's worse, a phone that explodes in your face or a drone that falls from the skies?
Dishonored 2 review: swords and sneakery
![dishonored](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/w/g/b/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvly2.png/1480284764766.jpg)
Each moment in this cerebral, dark adventure is a dilemma between sneaking around undetected or hitting your enemies head on and adding to the pestilent body count.
Why Twitter suspended its own CEO's account
![Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey was suspended from the site briefly.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/p/l/8/9/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsw9k5.png/1479945043277.jpg)
Twitter has not been shy about handing out suspensions, but recently it brought the ban hammer down on someone very surprising.
'I think you're going to do it': What Trump said to Tim Cook
![President-elect Donald Trump held meeting with Arthur Sulzberger Jr., right, publisher of the <i>New York Times</i>, ...](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/w/8/a/z/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsw859.png/1480045782598.jpg)
When he sat down with some of the editors of The New York Times on Wednesday, US President-elect Donald Trump admitted that Apple CEO Tim Cook had called him.
Facebook has built a software tool to censor posts in China
![Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, as Lu Wei, left, China's internet ...](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/u/2/6/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvvpi.png/1479881289862.jpg)
Facebook has built an tool for the Chinese market that would censor posts before they appear in people's news feeds.
Live radio remains Australia's king of the road in the streaming age
![For all our entertainment option, we still turn on the radio when we hit the road.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/a/0/m/h/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvbag.png/1479870468934.jpg)
Despite the boom in smartphones and streaming music services, it seems we still favour the old-fashioned radio when we jump behind the wheel.
Review: 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
![The Touch Bar is great in some apps, a little clunky in others.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/c/n/0/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvixa.png/1479949560306.jpg)
It might not be the impossible machine some enthusiasts were hoping for, but the new MacBook Pro is a worthy upgrade.
Corrupt video can cause any iPhone to freeze
![The mp4 video that causes iPhones to crash when viewed in Safari.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/v/e/m/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvel6.png/1479859548968.jpg)
A newly-found bug in Apple's Safari software causes any iPhone or iPad to slow down and then crash when a specific video file is played in the browser.
Almost half the world will be online by end of 2016
![Smartphone mobile phone generic](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/a/y/w/q/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsv8xx.png/1479821097705.jpg)
By the end of 2016, almost half of the world's population will be using the internet as mobile networks grow and prices fall, but their numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world.
Protect your digital life in 7 easy steps
![Encryption is a fancy computer-person word for scrambling your data until no one can understand what it says without a key.](/web/20161129043644im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/t/y/6/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gstwt9.png/1479697804806.jpg)
There are more reasons than ever to understand how to protect your personal information.