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DIY how-to-vote cards to give voters control in just a few clicks

Technology is allowing voters to take back control of their voting power this election, writes Lucy Battersby.

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$59 billion black budget: US spying detailed in secret report

11:34am | US spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus but remain unable to provide critical information on national security threats.

Life may have started on Mars, not Earth

Mars is shown within minutes of the planet's closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years in this image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This image was made from a series of exposures taken between 5:35 a.m. and 6:20 a.m. EDT Aug. 27 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. In this picture, the red planet is 34,647,420 miles (55,757,930 km) from Earth. (AP Photo/NASA, HO)

9:26am | Life on Earth may have started on Mars, new evidence suggests.

$174 million to teach digital, broadband literacy an 'effective' investment

Tony Basto showing some of his newly acquired skills by taking a self-portrait at the at the launch of Riverstone Digital Hub and Riverstone Digital Enterprise program.

LUCY BATTERSBY | The government has allocated $174 million to boost digital literacy and internet adoption in Australia ahead of the NBN.

Telstra cable cut leaves hundreds without phone, internet in Sydney

BEN GRUBB 1:50pm | Hundreds of residents in south-eastern Sydney have been without telephone or internet since Saturday after a Telstra copper cable was cut.

Opal smartcard comes to more Sydney commuters

Opal: Now available on all Sydney Ferries services and on the North Shore train line between Chatswood and the city.

JACOB SAULWICK 7:44am | The Opal is coming to a ferry wharf, train station or bus stop near you.

Iron Man 3 launches Disney's Digital Copy Plus in Australia

Adam Turner 9:37am | Rather than back UltraViolet, Disney has gone its own way with Digital Copy Plus downloads for DVD and Blu-ray movies.

Scientists boldly go where no man has gone before

Two human brains have been connected via the internet in an experiment which researchers compared to a Vulcan ''mind meld'' from Star Trek.

Tokyo trials high-speed magnetic rail

The L0 (L zero) series magnetic-levitation train, developed by Central Japan Railway Co., sits parked on a test track at the control center before a trial run in Tsuru City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Japan resumed trial runs for the world's fastest magnetic-levitation train that will complement the Shinkansen bullet-train network when ready in 2027. Photographer: Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg

Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda | Japan is resuming trial runs for the world's fastest magnetic-levitation train that will complement the Shinkansen bullet-train network when ready in 2027.

Sergey Brin love quadrangle blamed for Google executive's sudden departure

5:38pm | Google has been rocked by news of an office romance that is being blamed for a split between co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, and the sudden resignation of another senior male executive who was the former boyfriend of Brin's new love interest.

Alleged thief caught out by smartphone app

TOM MCILROY 9:12pm | Has a Canberra smartphone officially outsmarted a crook?

Gold Coast designers' iPhone case 'Australia-proof'

CMI Accessories have partnered with Swiss designers to develop a new phone case.

KATHERINE FEENEY | The iPhone5 may be popular, but it's not at all suited to the Australian climate, according to two Gold Coast businessmen who have "Oz-proofed" the smartphone via Switzerland.

Phone app offers walk history of Melbourne

JASON DOWLING | New free phone app is 'social history of our city' filled with anecdotes of memorable places.

Facebook facial recognition may be used on profile photos

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, a magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. Facebook is proposing to end its practice of letting users vote on changes to its privacy policies, though it will continue to let users comment on proposed updates. The world's biggest social media company said in a blog post Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, that its voting mechanism, which is triggered only if enough people comment on proposed changes, has become a system that emphasizes quantity of responses over quality of discussion. Users tend to leave one or two-word comments objecting to changes instead of more in-depth responses. (AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Koch, File)

12:07pm | Facebook is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members' profile photos into its growing facial recognition database.

Microsoft in talks to invest in Foursquare: report

Dennis Crowley: Foursquare founder and CEO.

12:43pm | Microsoft and American Express are vying to take an equity stake in Foursquare, according to sources.

Nasdaq glitches caused outage

Nasdaq: Went down for three hours on August 22.

12:17pm | Nasdaq has blamed last week's three-hour shutdown on a series of technological glitches.

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