This is what the internet used to look like

EVER wondered what your favourite websites used to look like? Wonder no more. Here’s how you can see the internet of yesteryear.



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What we spend 3.3 hours a day on

CAST your mind back five years and tell what would you be doing for almost three-and-half-hours a day outside work. Australia, we’re addicted.



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What we spend 3.3 hours a day on

CAST your mind back five years and tell what would you be doing for almost three-and-half-hours a day outside work. Australia, we’re addicted.



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Tinder executive ‘labelled a whore’

THE dating app Tinder is being sued for sexual harassment by a former executive who claims she was called a “whore” in front of the company’s CEO.



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Smile for emoji-only social network

HAVING a bad day or did you wake up smiling? Tell the world with the new social network that only lets you speak with emoji.



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ET deals: HP 23xi IPS monitor for $135, 25-inch for $185

The HP Pavilion 23xi and 25xi both feature an edge-to-edge display with 178-degree viewing angles, and a resolution of 1920x1080. These are IPS displays -- not inexpensive TN panels -- so you can expect rich images and color consistency. The two sport an attractive design with a micro-thin profile, so they will look good no matter whether in your home or workplace.



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TrackingPoint rifle lets you hit what you can’t see

TrackingPoint is making the science-fiction dream of having a gun that shoots around corners a reality. Sounds great for the battlefield, but they're also selling it to anyone with $10,000.



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With Mario Kart, Zelda, and cross-buy games, Nintendo could turn the Wii U around

We're a year and a half into the Wii U's lifespan, and the sales performance has been lackluster to say the least. Nintendo had lightning in a bottle with the original Wii, and it simply couldn't replicate that same hype for the Wii U. However, the narrative seems to be changing in Nintendo's favor recently. The house that Mario built had a surprisingly good showing at E3 this year, some heavy-hitting franchises are coming down the pike, and the first cross-buy game just hit the eShop.



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Anger mounts over Facebook’s news feed experiment, company denies wrongdoing

Facebook's admission that it manipulated news feeds to measure how it would impact user response is kicking up a great deal of controversy -- and the company doesn't seem to understand the problem.



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Intel Skylake leak predicts DDR4 support, configurable TDPs, dramatic power reductions

Intel's Skylake is rumored to pack a great many improvements and enhancements -- including a new GPU core, AVX3, DDR4 support, and additional security extensions.



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Razer’s modular Project Christine floundering on the shoals of low OEM interest

Razer's Project Christine is having trouble stoking OEM interest despite an innovative approach to the PC tower. Is the concept too expensive or out-of-this-world to attract big business support?



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Apple’s iPhone will die without this

EXCLUSIVE: There’s one thing Apple needs to do this year, according to a new Australian study, and the company’s iPhone could perish without it.



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New, security-minded Blackphone is ready to ship, and it’s packing Nvidia hardware

The first reviews of the privacy-minded Blackphone are in, and the product is impressive. It's also one of the first times we've seen Nvidia's Tegra 4i in action. Does the company's budget quad-core still have what it takes to compete in the modern market?



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Look, mum, no hands: pants man

COME on. You’re supposed to be clever. Isn’t it time you learned how to put your pants on without using your hands? Can’t be done? Watch and learn.



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Facebook’s ‘emotions’ experiment just made us mad

AMAZING science or unethical manipulation of its users? Facebook’s emotions experiment proves we can be toyed with in the virtual world. But did the company stretch the friendship too far?



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Countries where people die of overwork

ONE Chinese man has literally worked himself to death and he’s not alone: figures suggest a staggering 600,000 Chinese die every year from overwork.



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Teen sues over nude Snapchat

A TEENAGE girl is suing a classmate after he allegedly spread her nude Snapchat selfie. She says the saga made her suicidal.



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What lightning looks like from space

AN American astronaut has posted a series of stunning photos and videos of his home planet — and the results will take your breath away.



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Backyard astronomer captures incredible images

THE sun is 93 million miles away but one amateur astronomer hasn’t let that stop him capturing incredible close up photos from his back garden.



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Is this weird app actually genius?

IT SOUNDS like a silly idea: an app that just sends the word “Yo” to people. But it could be extraordinarily useful.



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‘Flying saucer’ splashes down

NASA has successfully tested a “flying saucer” packed with technology that could be used to one day land on Mars. So technically, it’s an IFO.



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How Facebook toyed with our emotions

FACEBOOK deliberately manipulated the feeds of almost 700,000 users to see how negative or positive posts affected their moods.



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Tim Cook ‘outed’ live on TV

A PANEL discussion about openly gay CEOs turned awkward when a co-anchor named Apple boss Tim Cook.



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Apple iPhone’s seven year itch

THE Apple iPhone changed the technology industry seven years ago, but experts warn a fresh approach may be needed to enjoy seven more years.



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Kids ignored due to device obsession

CHILDREN are being ignored and sometimes neglected as parents’ obsession with mobile devices grows. Is screen time replacing family time?



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Plane won’t land? Pull up a stool

IT’s a $30 million combat jet with a serious problem: The wheels won’t go down. Watch how this pilot uses a $30 stool to save it.



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Will 60fps YouTube videos force game developers to prioritize frame rate?

This week, Google announced that 48fps and 60fps video playback will be available on YouTube sometime in the next few months. The transition to higher frame rates has been painfully slow across the board, but this move from the YouTube team could force game devs and Hollywood to focus on pumping out more frames per second.



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This is my rig: James Plafke’s very quiet, compact, and cool gaming PC

My previous gaming rig is only two years old, but it's loud and hot (and thus, even louder), and it's now summer in New York. I needed a rig that could comfortably fit in a Brooklyn apartment-sized bedroom, and would not only be quiet, but be unable to literally heat my room by itself come winter.



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Android L, even as a developer preview, is magnificent (hands-on video)

Android L is available for developers (and brave users) to test. It shows off a completely new vision for Android, but the bugs should make you wary of installing it.



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Dota 2 prize fund now over $10 million: Not bad for a free-to-play PC-only game

Early this morning, the prize fund for the Dota 2 International tournament crossed the $10 million mark. Remarkably, just $1.6 million of the prize fund was provided by Valve; the rest was contributed by members of the Dota 2 community who are eager to get their hands on some in-game items, and to support their favorite teams and the nascent esport as a whole. With a prize fund of over $10 million, The International 4 is now larger than The Masters golf tournament.



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The apps to help you dodge frenemies

NOT a people person? Or do you wish you could find a way to avoid that ex? These apps will let you avoid those awkward run-ins.



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Car could cure motion sickness

IT’S the stuff of dreams for road trips which has now become a reality. This car reads the road, predicting corners and bumps so you have a smooth ride.



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Google turns on the world’s first modular smartphone, reveals more juicy details about Project Ara

At I/O 2014, Google has publicly turned on its modular Project Ara smartphone for the first time. Considering Project Ara nothing more than some pretty concept art back in October 2013, it's impressive how quickly Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group has produced a working prototype. If all goes to plan, Google hopes to sell the modular Ara smartphone in 2015, starting at $50 for a bare-bones endoskeleton that you plug other modules into. During the ATAP tech session at I/O 2014, Ara chief Paul Eremenko also gave us lots of technical details about how to actually build a modular phone -- no mean feat, as you can probably imagine.



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Google Glass-tonbury: how the festival looks through the latest gizmo - video

Glastonbury 2014: As Google's Glass goes on sale in the UK, the Guardian's Harriet Gibsone asks festivalgoers what they make of Google's latest gadget, and roadtests a pair in some typical British festival weather. OK Glass, which way to the dance tent? Continue reading...



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Killer army defeating Boko Haram

TERROR group Boko Haram is being flushed out of its hideouts in Nigerian forests by mystical bees and deadly snakes.



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Where to get the best EOFY tech deals

WITH the end of the financial year right around the corner, stores are trying to clear as much as possible. Here are your best tech deals.



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The ring connected to your phone

IT looks like a cocktail ring, with its semiprecious gemstone, yet it will flash if receive an SMS message, tweet, Facebook update, or Instagram.



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Why we fart and other body mysteries

EVER wondered why we get headaches or why gas sometimes slips out of our behinds? Here are the answers to your most commonly asked health questions.



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Woman found dead after ‘laptop electrocution’

A SYDNEY woman wearing headphones and holding a laptop has been found dead with burns to her ears and chest in a suspected electrocution.



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Carbon neutrality has failed – now our only way out of global warming is to go carbon negative

A new report highlights the fact that we're headed for an inexorable rise in temperatures -- so what else can be done to avoid catastrophic change?



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Hyundai’s 2015 Genesis will automatically brake for speed cameras: Awesome, or a terrifying misuse of technology?

Rejoice, speeding drivers! The new 2015 Hyundai Genesis, which goes on sale around the world this year, will soon have the ability to automatically brake for speed cameras. The car will have a built-in map of speed cameras and average speed cameras, and then use a combination of GPS and its fancy Automatic Emergency Braking technology to brake if you're still going over the speed limit when you reach the camera. While this feature is probably legal, it does appear to go against the spirit of speed cameras; after all, if you can just keep your foot down, and rely on the car to automatically brake for speed cameras, that's hardly very safe, right?



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The internet of 3500-pound things: Big data arrives in your car

Cars represent a huge market of devices... once they're all web-connected. Time to think about value and privacy. We attended the Further with Ford conference to learn more about what the automaker has planned.



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Android L vs. iOS 8: Can Apple take on Android’s biggest update ever?

We don't know what version number or even what it's called. but Android L is going to be the biggest thing that's ever happened to Android.



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Has Google lost the plot again at I/O 2014, or is there a method in the madness?

Back in 2011, Google's incoming CEO Larry Page promised to put 'more wood behind fewer arrows.' Since then, Google has made good on the promise and proceeded to shut down a large number of products (Reader, iGoogle, Buzz), and integrated or combined many others. Now, after watching Google's I/O 2014 keynote, it would seem that Google's spartan, utilitarian days are over: We're now back to Google's timeworn strategy of throwing product ideas at a wall to see what sticks. Has Google lost the plot again, or is there a method in the madness?



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Google’s next big thing is... cardboard?

GOOGLE is known to be at the cutting edge of technology, but their latest piece of tech is made out of... cardboard.



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One year on, how a tragedy is saving lives

WHEN Alex Sheen filmed a clip of a drunk driver confessing he’d killed a man, he had no idea how big that video would become. To make sure it never happened again he did this.



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‘Please stop, I am not Luis Suarez‘

AN Argentinian man with the Twitter handle @Suarez has issued a desperate plea to be left alone after outraged World Cup fans mistook him for Uruguayan villain Luis Suarez.



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One year on, how a tragedy is saving lives

WHEN Alex Sheen filmed a YouTube clip of a drunk driver confessing he’d killed a man, he had no idea how big that video would become. To make sure it never happened again he did this.



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Twitter storm over wrong Suarez

“I AM not Luis Suarez. Please.” That’s the desperate plea of an unfortunate Argentinian man with the Twitter handle @Suarez.



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‘You build machines that kill’

GOOGLE’S biggest event of the year has been stormed by two separate protests — one about San Francisco housing, and the other something very different.



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Astronomers discover Earth-sized diamond-encrusted white dwarf

Astronomers have discovered the faintest white dwarf star ever orbiting a pulsar 900 light years away. They know because they can't see it.



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Watching your phone? Google has answer

OPINION: DON’T believe wearable technology is the future? Stop looking at your smartphone then.



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US Supreme Court rules against Aereo, eviscerates the company’s business model

The Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo's antenna rebroadcasting service is illegal in its current form. This almost certainly means the death of the company -- but it also points to the need to reconsider copyright in the US.



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Watch! Google just got smarter

GOOGLE wants you to talk to your wrist — not the hand — to do everything from ordering pizzas to taxis, launching its first two smartwatches.



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Self-contained solar PowerCube generates electricity, purifies water, and throws WiFi anywhere on Earth

A new self-contained solar grid could pack into a single shipping container and provide energy anywhere on Earth -- but can it compete with conventional diesel?



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Here’s what space debris does to the Kevlar shielding protecting the International Space Station

If you've seen Gravity, you'll have noticed how a single piece of space debris can cause a cascade of destruction -- the Kessler effect -- that makes the entirety of space completely uninhabitable to spacecraft? Well, in the photo above, you can see the exit hole created by a tiny piece of aluminium space debris in a piece of Kevlar shielding -- the same shielding that protects the manned modules of the International Space Station. Space debris is serious stuff.



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Mysterious signal could be dark matter

ASTRONOMERS think an unidentfied X-ray signal found 240 million light years from Earth could be dark matter.



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BioWare is reinventing save games for the Xbox One and PS4

Now that the Xbox One and PS4 are on store shelves, the development team at BioWare have a serious problem to solve for the upcoming release of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Instead of rigging up a complicated syncing solution, BioWare decided to launch a simple tool called the Dragon Age Keep to solve the problem of save importing.



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Can Facebook predict mental health problems?

A WORLD-first program will monitor the Facebook pages of Melbourne bipolar patients to determine if their postings can identify when they are headed for a relapse.



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Watch the Google I/O 2014 keynote live (updated live blog)

Today, Google will be delivering the keynote for its 2014 I/O conference. The event will be streamed out live, and we'll be covering the keynote with regular updates. We expect to see a lot of big news coming out of the Mountain View company, so return here at 12pm ET (9am PT) for all the nitty gritty.



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How to watch hacking, and cyberwarfare between the USA and China, in real time

You've probably read dozens of paragraphs on how the next great theater of war will be online rather than offline, and how China and the US are already battling each other for cyber supremacy. The truth is, though, unless you've actually been hacked, it's hard to appreciate just how real the prospect of cyberwar actually is. Now, though, a security company has produced a fascinating geographic map that shows you hacking attempts in real-time -- and sure enough, you really can see China waging cyberwar against the US.



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Inside Ford’s virtual reality prototyping lab: Why make full-size clay cars when VR will do?

3D vizualization software cuts costly physical mockups, clay models. Yesterday's design changes show up in today's 3D model.



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Top aide quits over penis tweet

A SENIOR political adviser has resigned after his porn star ex spitefully tweeted a picture of his penis. But did he really do anything wrong?



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Penis tweet ruins pollie aide’s career

THE career of a well-respected aide to a US politician is in ruins after an image of his penis was tweeted by a “disgruntled ex-girlfriend”.



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New Facebook app is Snapchat with a catch

FACEBOOK launches its new Snapchat-like app in Australia today. But what is the tricky feature that users say “forces” them to engage?



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Got an idea for an app? Read this

WHETHER you’re just in it for the fun or want to make some serious money, these are the ten mistakes you need to avoid when developing an app.



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See Google’s 3D Australian flyover

GUESS which Australian city Google chose first to join New York and Rome in a 3D map that lets you “fly” through the city.



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‘The world’s dumbest criminal’

POLICE didn’t have to work hard to catch a man who broke into a house after he committed the ultimate Facebook sin on his victim’s computer.



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Why do we use Facebook if we hate it so much?

EVERY survey in the world tells us that we hate Facebook, yet we still log in every day. Why?



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iWatch to ‘kill’ activity trackers

WHO says Apple’s rumoured iWatch will kill the activity tracker market? The bloke that makes activity trackers.



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iWatch to ‘kill’ activity trackers

WHO says Apple’s rumoured iWatch will kill the activity tracker market? The bloke that makes activity trackers.



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ET deals: HP Envy 700 desktop with Core i7 and 16GB for $655

The HP Envy 700-215xt packs a powerful Core i7-4770 quad-core processor, which will fly through just about any task you put it to. Of course, as we mentioned, this desktop also includes the friendly Windows 7 Home Premium you're used to, so you'll be able to hit the ground running and install all your favorite software and games from the get-go, even if they're older.



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Could sanctioned game mods on PS4 and Xbox stave off Valve’s attack on consoles?

Microsoft and Sony seem to be too afraid of potential piracy and security issues to consider letting average nerds hack away at their favorite games. However, Steam machines are coming next year, and that could turn everything on its head.



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Supercomputer stagnation: New list of the world’s fastest computers casts shadow over exascale by 2020

Yesterday, Top 500 released the updated list of the world's fastest supercomputers, and it revealed a rather worrying trend: Supercomputer performance is slowing down, rather than speeding up. When most of the world's computing superpowers have announced their intentions to create exascale (1000 petaflops) supercomputers by 2020, this would appear to be a bit of a problem.



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Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever

A new analysis of 25-year-old evidence may show that we've been wrong about the speed of light in a vacuum - and if true, that's big news for astronomers.



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iFind: World’s first battery-free Bluetooth location tag raises $500,000, despite all the hallmarks of being a giant scam

In what is best described as a slow-motion bank robbery, it appears that a Kickstarter scam is about to walk away with over $500,000. The iFind, developed by WeTag, purports to be a battery-free Bluetooth tracking tag. WeTag says it has developed some magical, patent-pending technology that allows the iFind to harvest enough power from the air to operate the Bluetooth beacon forever, without a backup battery. Sadly, a bit like the Solar Roadways project, iFind sounds too good to be true, and 10,000 unfortunate backers are probably about to be conned out of $500,000.



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Intel’s next-gen Xeon Phi will be 3x faster, include next-gen Hybrid Memory Cube tech

Intel's next-generation Knights Landing is going to pack a huge number of advances, from hyper memory cube technology to a new fabric Interconnect and next-generation 14nm Atom cores.



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The cheap car you can afford to run

ONE of Australia’s cheapest cars is also the most affordable to own and operate — even though it must use premium unleaded petrol. So which is it?



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The vacuum tube strikes back: NASA’s tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs

Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified light bulbs. This is why early computers like the ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and consumed more power than a small town. Later, obviously, vacuum tubes would be replaced by probably the greatest invention of all time -- the solid-state transistor -- which would allow for the creation of smaller, faster, cheaper, and more reliable computers. Fast forward to 2014, though, and the humble CMOS field-effect transistor (FET) is starting to show its age. We've pretty much hit the limit on shrinking silicon transistors any further, and they can't operate at speeds much faster than a few gigahertz. Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.



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One of world’s biggest mysteries could be solved

THE story behind the famous Terracotta Army has been plaguing archaeologists for decades, but now one of man’s biggest mysteries could finally be solved thanks to new imaging technology.



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Hot mugshot sparks Twitter trend

JEREMY Meeks, the man in the mugshot dubbed the best-looking ever, has sparked a disturbing new trend on Twitter.



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‘Feeble’ Tony’s brutal smack down

ONE of the world’s most august bodies has slammed the Australia Government on the world stage twice in the one week.



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ET deals: HP Envy 27 LED-backlit IPS LCD monitor for $350

As larger and higher resolution displays become more common, manufacturers are relying on other differentiators to make their product stand out. HP's Envy 27 is one such different monitor, packed with Beats Audio and a sleek design, and on sale right now for just $350, a tidy $100 off the regular price.



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Google’s big week: What we’ll see

THE event where Google shows off everything it hopes to change the world with is just around the corner. What should we expect?



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New material could provide massive boost to solar cell efficiency

A new type of solar cell technology could dramatically boost overall performance -- without adding much cost. If the technology scales, it could cut the cost of the most efficient solar cells.



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Welcome to 1984? Google acquires home security camera company Dropcam

Google is moving quickly to establish a foothold in your home: After acquiring Nest Labs, it's now acquiring Dropcam -- a startup that makes cloud-based security cameras for your home -- for $555 million in cash. The question now, of course, is whether people will be comfortable giving Google a potential pervasive peephole into their homes, rather than a small, innocuous startup taking a gander.



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Sony pushes 4K TV at the World Cup, even though there’s nothing to watch – and no Blu-rays, cables, or bandwidth for 4K

At the 2014 World Cup, the weirdest thing isn't that USA are doing better than England, but that 4K TV is being pushed surprisingly hard. As I watched USA versus Portugal last night, one of the main ads around the edge of the pitch was a hoarding for Sony 4K. This surprised me, because I know there's virtually zero 4K content actually available. Like a good little potential purchaser I wandered along to the Sony website to see what the deal was, and sure enough it's selling some 4K TVs priced anywhere from $3,000 to $30,000. Yes, for a sizable chunk of your annual income, you can buy a TV that's capable of watching Breaking Bad and House of Cards in 4K... and... that's it.



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14nm, 7nm, 5nm: How low can CMOS go? It depends if you ask the engineers or the economists…

The titans of the semiconductor industry continue to push forward, but economists and other engineers aren't so sure -- can we profitably move below 10nm for manufacturing?



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LHC confirms we’ve definitely discovered the Higgs boson, and (sadly) it behaves exactly as the Standard Model predicts

Some two years after a Higgs boson was discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a new study confirms that the newly discovered particle is definitely the Higgs boson, and it behaves exactly as the Standard Model of particle physics predicts. On the one hand, this is obviously a huge win for science -- but on the other, there will be many scientists who are disappointed that, yet again, the Standard Model has held up to another round of immense scrutiny. If you were hoping for the Higgs boson to be the weird particle that led us towards the weird and wonderful nether regions of science beyond the Standard Model -- supersymmetry, dark matter, dark energy -- then sadly this is not the particle you were looking for.



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Saturn’s moon mystery solved?

THEY call it the magic island and it is one of the most surprising recent discoveries humans have made in our solar system.



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What Aussies have really been up to in Brazil

AUSTRALIA may not be scoring points at the World Cup, but our country’s men are making sure nothing is lost in the way of a holiday romance by giving dating app Tinder a workout.



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The most confronting ad you’ll see this year

NO ONE wants to encourage speeding drivers but do we really need to see kids being squashed in road safety ads? WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES



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Sexy mugshot guy’s wife ‘furious’

HIS chiselled features and piercing eyes have set hearts aflutter on social media but Jeremy Meeks’ wife isn’t quite so happy with the attention he’s receiving.



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Why wi-fi is not working at home

TECH-obsessed Australians are hooked up to more devices than ever before but many are finding that using wi-fi in the home is not working.



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This is what nightmares are made of

YOU won’t be sleeping tonight. What’s worse than your average spider? Well, ones that are capable of eating things five times their size are taking over the world.



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ET deals: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB SSD for $400

Solid state drives have always been a great way to boost performance compared to using a hard disk drive, but traditionally they're hard to find and often prohibitively expensive in large capacities. So we were excited to spot a price drop we just found on a huge 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, cutting the price down to $400 - that's just $0.40/GB, a really low rate.



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US Supreme Court deals major blow against software patents and patent trolls

The US Supreme Court tapped the brakes on software patents this week by ruling that simply implementing an existing idea with a computer isn't patentable.



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The first ‘unfeelability’ invisibility cloak will please campers and princesses everywhere

You know how a princess can feel a pea through 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds? Well, not any more. Researchers in Germany have created the first mechanical invisibility cloak. When this cloak is placed over an object, the object cannot be felt at all -- either by your finger, or a more sensitive measuring device. This has obvious repercussions for the authentication of fairytale princesses, and also in the realm of camping (die, tree roots, die) and carpeting (cabling begone!)



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Android, Windows to get ‘kill switch’

GOOGLE and Microsoft will follow Apple’s lead and offer smartphone “kill switches” to curb the record number of thefts.



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Neil deGrasse Tyson of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: 'Science needs a little bit of marketing' - video

The astrophysicist, author and host of popular National Geographic TV show joins Mark Sweeney in the Guardian Speakers' Lounge at the Cannes Lions festival. He discusses the need for better marketing for science in order to reach people who may not know they'd be interested in it. He also strongly challenges the instrumentalist view of science: that unless it has an immediate practical application it has no value. He says societies grounded in science are hallmarks of civilisation Continue reading...



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T-Mobile Un-carrier 5 and 6: Free iPhone loans, VoLTE, and unmetered music

On Tuesday evening, T-Mobile held its Un-carrier event and launched two initiatives: free 7-day test drives with the iPhone 5S and unmetered music streaming. It also announced that it has VoLTE and wideband LTE live in over 15 markets, and VoLTE will be available nationwide by the end of the year.



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Unilever's Keith Weed: Mobile phone marketing is the key to reaching remote areas - video

Unilever's chief marketing officer Keith Weed joins Mark Sweney in the Guardian Speakers' Lounge at the Cannes Lions festival to discuss how the multinational markets its products in hard-to-reach parts of the globe. Weed highlights the importance of mobile technology and describes a campaign in rural India which tapped into the phenomenon of utilising 'missed calls' to save on bills Continue reading...



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World Cup blows up on Facebook

IN JUST one week, Facebook users have shown more interest in the World Cup than in the Sochi Olympics, Super Bowl and Academy Awards combined.



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Our nuclear waste war: where next?

AUSTRALIA needs a place to dump radioactive waste, which is being partially stored in hospital carparks, but no one wants it. So where could it go?



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AMD claims it can deliver 25x energy efficiency improvement in the next six years

AMD is claiming that it'll offer a 25x performance-per-watt improvement by 2020. Is the company serious, or blowing smoke?



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Dalvik is dead: Next version of Android uses new ART runtime to boost speed, battery life

The next major version of Android, which will probably be unveiled at Google I/O next week, will remove the Dalvik runtime and replace it with ART -- the new Android Runtime. The main purpose of ART is to improve performance and smoothness of both third-party Android apps and the core apps and interface. Brian Carlstrom, a member of Google's Dalvik engineering team, announced the Dalvik-ART switch-over with this rather amusing patch note: 'Dalvik is dead, long live Dalvik! DO NOT MERGE.'



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Free data as Vodafone apologises

VODAFONE has apologised for the outage that left WA customers without mobile and date services for much of yesterday.



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How much can X-ray’s really see?

THERE’S no such thing as X-ray vision yet — but these images come pretty close. Take a look at what lies beneath our clothes.



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BMW has hopes for hybrid supercar

CRYSTAL balls are always a bit murky — and gazing into them costs cash.



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Neanderthals ‘like Game of Thrones’

ANALYSIS of 430,000-year-old skulls found in a Spanish cave suggest the evolution of humans and Neanderthals mirrors the Game of Thrones saga.



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ET deals: Today only! Toshiba Satellite Core i5 laptop for $450

If you can find an Intel Core i5 laptop for under $500, you've usually found a decent deal. For today only, Toshiba is doing you one better, offering up such a laptop plus an extended warranty for just $450, a huge 40% savings.



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How to bring back the Start menu and button to Windows 8

If you've just installed Windows 8, or bought a Windows 8 PC, you may have noticed something rather irksome: The Start button and menu have disappeared! After spending almost 20 years at the bottom left corner of your desktop, Microsoft has decided that the Start menu is dead and that the mouse-and-keyboard-hating Metro Start screen is the future.



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Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost

Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads. This move is almost certainly intended to make Intel-x86 a better all-round platform for a wider variety of workloads, and to dissuade customers from switching to GPGPU accelerators from the likes of Nvidia.



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The great flying car dream: With Terrafugia, Toyota, and Musk on board, has their time finally come?

Seven decades of magazine covers later, we’re still waiting. Terrafugia now batting, Elon Musk on deck.



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YO: Is the tech bubble set to burst?

A NEW app that only allows users to send the word “Yo” to friends may sound like a joke, but it’s attracting serious funding in Silicon Valley.



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Who in their right mind would buy Amazon’s Fire Phone?

As Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, strutted calmly around the stage in Seattle and reeled off the Fire Phone's long, long list of features, I started to become inordinately excited. But as the dust settled and my pulse returned to normal and I begun to think less like techfreak and more like a rational human being, I started wondering: Who would actually buy Amazon's Fire Phone? Would you? Would your friends? Would your mom?



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Jason Silva: 'the kid in the garage' will control the future of tech, not Google - video

Jason Silva, presenter of Brain Games on National Geographic, discusses the future of the technology industry as devices become cheaper, faster and smarter. He joins Mark Sweney in the Guardian Speakers' Lounge at the Cannes Lions festival to describe how human attention spans are increasingly thought of as a scarce resource to be competed for and how billion-dollar companies will rise and fall 'overnight' Continue reading...



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Hacker hijacks thousands of Synology storage devices, forces them to mine 500 million Dogecoins

Synology Diskstations have been hacked to produce Dogecoins, but the company insists it patched the vulnerability in September.



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