Technology

Hands on: Sphero Spider-man

Sphero's Spider-man talks a big game much isn't much of an action hero.

An interactive choose-your-own-adventure superhero, Sphero's Spider-man has mad skills but perhaps lacks staying power.

Amazon's computer vision: A home appliance for suburbia

Amazon's Echo Show is well on the way to becoming the operating system for suburbia.

One measure of the power of Amazon 's vision is how quickly its rivals are racing to copy it; both Apple and Google have their own takes on the Echo Show. But Amazon's device is well on the way to becoming the operating system for suburbia.

Start-up sexual harassment backlash continues

Dave McClure, the founder of 500 Startups, resigned this week.

The upheaval over sexual harassment in the technology start-up industry mushroomed this week, with the resignation of a prominent Silicon Valley investor who said he had been "a creep" and more women saying they would come forward to talk about their experiences.

Medicare details of every Australian up for sale

An apparent security hole in the health system is being exploited.

A confronting report shows that a vendor on the dark web can pull up the full Medicare card details of any Australian on request — and is selling them for around $30 each — indicating a security hole somewhere in the health system.

Far Cry 5's religious weirdos court controversy

Father Joseph Seed and his fellow cultists as they appeared on the initial Far Cry 5 reveal poster.

When the first image promoting Far Cry 5 was released and appeared to show Christian Americans as the villains, certain pockets of the internet didn't know what to do with themselves. But after playing the game and talking to its producer at this year's E3, it's clear to me this is business as usual.

MacBook chapter III just gets better

The tiny MacBook is finally giving its bigger siblings a run for their money.

The third generation MacBook is the first in the line-up to tempt me away from a MacBook Pro, and the first to really feel like the successor to the MacBook Air, as an ultraportable computer without many compromises.