 | | |  | An environment group is about to become the first in Australia to deploy surveillance drones to hunt for evidence of animal abuse, writes Ben Cubby. | | Top stories ASHER MOSES | Apple Australia may be breaching federal online gambling laws by offering apps such as PokerStars which allow Australians to bet on casino-style games with real money. | Jenneth Orantia | Samsung's new Galaxy S4 stacks up favourably against the latest raft of iPhone challengers, writes Jenneth Orantia. | Derrik Lang 12:49pm | It's back. The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year's Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of video game makers in San Francisco. | MEGAN LEVY 2:35pm | YouTube is closing down, Gina Rinehart is the new boss of Channel 10, and the Australian Financial Review is bucking the compact trend and upsizing to a broadsheet. | Stuart Williams 3:17pm | A new Russian-American crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after a fast-track trip from Earth of under six hours, the swiftest ever manned journey to the orbiting laboratory. | A single-page FBI memo to J Edgar Hoover in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau's electronic reading room and offers some strange details. | A quest to build a brain is dividing scientists, Tim Requarth writes. | Andrea Petrie | Telecommunications companies are understood to have been inundated with complaints by Apple iPhone customers keen to find out if a software glitch was behind their escalating mobile phone bills. | Richard Gray 9:33am | When restaurant manager Eric Moger surprised his girlfriend by proposing over Christmas dinner, he could have no idea that less than a year later his life and appearance would be changed beyond recognition. | Want to release your inner Tarantino? Jenneth Orantia reviews the best map apps for scriptwriting. | 12:11pm | Facebook has fueled fresh talk about its own mobile phone after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for this week. | Rob Lever 12:22pm | Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch", the consensus is growing: the time is right. | Apple is seeking a patent for an iPhone that has a display that wraps around the edges of the device, expanding the viewable area and eliminating all physical buttons. | Chris Middendorp | Victoria's myki is an IT 'fiasco' you cannot go wrong complaining about. | 12:29pm | The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Apple's application for a trademark to safeguard its widely popular iPad mini tablet, saying the case to own the phrase was too weak. | Martha Mendoza 5:30am | A world class auditorium, an orchard, walkways angled to force accidental encounters... tech employers get creative. | SARAH WHYTE | Theodora Chan always thought her online identity was impenetrable. | Play doesn't need to stop for sports fans taking a bathroom break at a Pennsylvania minor-league baseball stadium that has installed video games in men's room urinals. | Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into one of Japan's eerie ghost towns, created when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear disaster that has left the area uninhabitable. | LIA TIMSON | Australians are yet to feel the impact of the world's largest cyber attack reverberating around the world, but the unprecedented event has highlighted the fragility of the internet. | RACHEL OLDING | Pattern recognition software for smartphones has been credited with helping to halve ''tag'' graffiti in a Sydney suburb could save ratepayers millions of dollars, police and developers claim. | The number of cases of alleged cybersquatting handled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation jumped five per cent to reach a record 2,884 last year, the head of the UN agency said Thursday. | Research In Motion says it has sold about 1 million phones running its new BlackBerry 10 system as it surprised investors with a profit in its most recent quarter. | Egyptian military arrests three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria. | Internet search leader Google is taking another step beyond information retrieval into same-day grocery delivery. | Salvador Rodriguez | The BlackBerry Z10 has just gone on sale, and BlackBerry loyalists will like the improvements that come with the new smartphone and operating system. | NICK O'MALLEY | The city's police have found a way to spot trouble before it starts, writes Nick O'Malley. | Ryan Gallagher | An oft-repeated refrain among the privacy conscious is that a mobile phone is really a tracking device that lets you make calls. But a major new study suggests the digital trail left by a mobile phone can identify more than mere movements - it can be used as a "fingerprint" to identify people with a striking degree of accuracy. | Adam Turner explains how cinephiles can preserve their DVD collections. | Reviewed by Rich Jaroslovsky | The Windows and Android operating systems have had one thing in common: Both are designed to work on many different kinds of hardware. | Craig Timberg | Smartphones are opening up endless possibilities in the delivery of news. | NICKY PHILLIPS | Bringing animals back from extinction is no longer science fiction. But the question is, should we do it? | David Pogue | In the early days of personal computers, people talked about how great they'd be for managing recipes. Remember? | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. 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