Tim Biggs

Tim Biggs

Tim is the editor of Fairfax's technology sections, as well as a writer and reviewer specialising in video game coverage.

How does iPhone 8 Plus Portrait Mode stack up against a DSLR?

Apple's iPhone 8 Plus "won't make you a better photographer, but it will improve your photos".

If you've always wanted to run around as shirtless Mario — and take pictures for posterity — you're in luck.

Hands on with Super Mario Odyssey

It was around the time I was flinging my pirate hat in order to possess a huge piece of meat that I realised Super Mario Odyssey is a bit weird, even by Super Mario standards.

iOS 11 features a new-look Control Centre and a Mac-like dock for iPad.

iOS 11: The big changes coming to iPhone and iPad

While the last major update to iOS redesigned and overhauled the iPhone experience, iOS 11 — which is rolling out starting today — is mostly about iPad-specific features that turn the tablet from an oversized phone to more of a laptop replacement.

Prospective pirates found somebody was stealing from them, and they weren't happy.

Pirate Bay plants secret tracker to hijack users' CPU

Frequent visitors to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay are up in arms after the site secretly added a feature to the site that sapped users' CPU resources to mine cryptocurrency.

Samus looks a lot sleeker now than she did in 1991, and she moves better too.

Gaming goddess resurrected in Samus Returns

Intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran is back and, while it's debatable whether she's better than ever, she's certainly doing what she does better than anybody else.

The Nokia8 in steel (above) and tempered blue.

Nokia 8: return of the Finnish flagship

For the first time in a very long time, a Nokia flagship phone is worthy of consideration alongside the latest from Samsung, LG, Sony and Apple.

Telstra customers are reporting issues in NSW.

Telstra mobile outage hits users in and around Sydney

Telstra mobile customers in and around Sydney were reporting intermittent connectivity problems this morning, with a technical fault apparently to blame.

The XZ1 Compact is more or less the same phone as the XZ1, just smaller.

Sony's Xperia XZ1 is a phone with a 3D scanner

Continuing its strategy of announcing new phones every 6 months or so, Sony has unveiled the Xperia XZ1 and Xperia XZ1 Compact this week at the IFA tech fair in Berlin.

Nidhogg 2's look is gross, but it serves the game and will be more easily accepted in the mainstream.

Nidhogg 2 is gross, violent, and undeniably fun

Nidhogg 2 turned heads for all the wrong reasons when it was revealed this time last year, with the gracefully minimalist pixel graphics of the original sword-fighting party favourite replaced by a gross and chunky style that looks like something from a '90s cartoon.

Guided Display makes all the 200D's functions easier to grasp and manipulate.

Canon DSLR teaches smartphone generation the finer points

Canon's new EOS 200D is designed to appeal to those of us unfamiliar with the terminology and functions of good quality cameras, packing a fully-featured DSLR into a light and compact frame, and adding new software that can teach new users the ins and outs of all the various modes until they're ready to take the training wheels off.

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