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Speed check: what NBN speed promises really mean

The NBN has focused attention on download and upload speeds like never before - so what do they really mean? Lucy Battersby investigates.

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X-Keyscore spy program tracks 'nearly all' web use

X-Keyscore: Allows the NSA and allies to monitor emails, web browsing, internet searches and social media.

Philip Dorling 11:31am | Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal key signals intelligence program used by Australia to harvest internet and telephone traffic across Asia-Pacific.

Motorola Moto X: Hands-on review

9:55am | The Moto X has up to 2000 customisations - including one made out of wood.

Moto X smartphone unveiled by Google

Motorola Moto X smartphones, using Google's Android software, are shown, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at a press preview in New York. The back of the phone is available in 18 colors. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

9:04am | Motorola has unveiled a new smartphone that consumers can personalise with a choice of colours and materials.

Plex - the one media server to rule them all?

Adam Turner 11:53am | If you want to watch everything, everywhere, is it worth messing around with anything other than Plex?

Android to SpyPhone: How hackers can spy on your smartphone

11:08am | Hackers can turn an Android into a SpyPhone by pasting malicious code into an innocuous app such as Angry Birds and then get the owner to install it.

Apple to fix bug that allows fake charging stations to hack iPhones

An iPhone 5 charges at the Apple Store in Pasadena, California.

10:13am | Apple software update to fix security flaw that allows hackers to infiltrate iPhones and iPads via fake charging stations.

NASA Curiosity rover's first year on Mars in two minutes: time-lapse video

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in this February 3, 2013 handout self-portrait. A computer glitch, possibly caused by radiation, has put on hold the Mars rover Curiosity's first attempt to analyze powder from inside an ancient rock, officials said on March 4, 2013. REUTERS/NASA/Handout. (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY. AN UNPROCESSED VERSION WILL BE PROVIDED SEPARATELY

11:04am | To celebrate one year of successful space exploration by Curiosity on Mars, NASA has released a time-lapse video that compresses the entire mission into two minutes.

Will the new iPad mini have a Retina display?

The iPad Mini is shown in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

11:44am | The new iPad mini that Apple is likely to release later this year will definitely have a Retina display. Unless it doesn't.

Robots to invade Brisbane

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and his humanoid clone Geminoid HI-4.

Kerstin Kehren 12:01am | Robots will soon invade Brisbane's CBD as part of an international celebration of robotics being hosted by the Queensland University of Technology on Sunday, August 18.

Twitter hands over information to government

Twitter: received 1157 requests from 26 different governments from January to June 2013.

11:30am | The Australian government is increasingly asking Twitter for private information about users, new data shows.

Is G.Fast an NBN saviour or just a sideshow?

Untangling the possibilities: can a hybrid G.Fast-fibre NBN be the answer?

Tony Brown 11:53am | Malcolm Turnbull is talking up the potential of G.Fast for the NBN rollout. Tony Brown says it's not a silver bullet.

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