Technology
Australian businesses exposed in Microsoft Outlook hack
Foreign hackers have exploited flaws in Microsoft’s email server software to plant malicious tools in computers around the world.
- by Tim Biggs
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Opinion
Web culture
The whole internet pays for Google and Facebook to be free
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
- by Alex Webb
‘Apple’s funding more than the government’: Every 10th game on Arcade is local
The iPhone-maker’s subscription games service adds more Aussie content, but the struggling industry says government support is still urgently needed.
- by Tim Biggs
Google says it will stop tracking users in Chrome to sell ads
Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from Chrome browsers, in a change that threatens to shake up the online advertising industry.
- by Kelvin Chan
Lego takes on TikTok with kid-friendly social network
Vidiyo is a social media app aimed at 7–10 year olds, letting kids make and share music videos using scanned Lego minifigures.
- by Alice Clarke
Get a new look at the world outside your window with time-lapse videos
Once purely the domain of professional photographers, time-lapse is now open to anyone with a relatively recent smartphone.
- by Alice Clarke
Opinion
Social media
Facebook banned my perfectly harmless article - and I think I know why
In recent months, Facebook has taken to labelling as fake, or removing altogether, a number of stunningly inoffensive pieces.
- by Daniel Hannan
Aussie video game industry’s billion dollar potential
Lockdown has revealed a surprise silver lining for the Australian video game industry, with experts telling 9News locally produced content is booming.
A new generation of Wi-Fi to improve your home network
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
- by Brian X. Chen
Review
Video games
Blizzard’s pre-Warcraft library is one worth revisiting
New collection restores the rock to Rock N’ Roll Racing and provides the best way to play Blackthorne and The Lost Vikings.
- by Tim Biggs
Future bright for TVs with new display tech (and jargon) in 2021
As high-end OLED TVs get brighter, the introduction of miniLED also means less expensive LCD sets will look better than ever.
- by Krishan Sharma