Top stories Cynthia Karena 10:41am | Cyber attacks could shut down Australia’s electricity grid, steal government records, or force government services offline, according to a CSIRO cyber security report. | Deepa Seetharaman 2:15pm | PayPal, the payment processing arm of eBay, says that it parted ways with a recently-hired strategy executive after he posted a series of disparaging and at times indecipherable tweets. | Stephen Miller 3:29pm | George Heilmeier, who as a young scientist led the team that created liquid crystal displays, paving the way for flat-panel displays for computers and television sets, has died. He was 77. | Ian Lovett | The emergence of do-it-yourself justice thanks to GPS tracking apps has stirred worries among US law enforcement officials. | Craig Butt | Some of Australia’s most vulnerable people have been left without phone and Internet after a telecommunications company that specialises in the over 55s went into administration. | James 'DexX' Dominguez 1:35pm | Child of Light looks amazing, and its gameplay almost matches its looks. | COSIMA MARRINER | Anxious parents are using technology to monitor every movement their children make, hoping to give them a semblance of independence while not compromising their safety. | James B. Stewart | If Steve Jobs were alive today, should he be in jail? | Andrew Colley 4:05pm | An Australian online security start-up pushing hard into an area of intellectual property dominated by PayPal has won the backing of the Singapore government. | EAMONN DUFF | Virgin Mobile customers languished without phone service on Saturday after the national network suffered a partial collapse overnight. | 3:42pm | Kevin Spacey will play the arch-villain in the next installment of the Call of Duty video game franchise. | Paddy Wood 4:07pm | With Google Glass, 31-year-old Kelly Schulz, 97 per cent blind since birth, is given a glimpse of what's in front of her. | Bill Rigby 3:07pm | Bill Gates, the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, will have no direct ownership in the company he co-founded by mid-2018 if he keeps up his recent share sales. | CAROLINE ZIELINSKI 9:41am | While construction continues on DUS Architects' much-publicised 3D-printed canal house in Amsterdam, a Chinese firm claims to have gone ahead and printed 10 rudimentary prototype houses in 24 hours. | Marcus Chan | Chengdu Unionfriend? Inovisi Infracom? Even for global techies, these companies may not ring a bell. | Dan Levine | As US jury has ordered Samsung to pay Apple $US119.6 million after it found the South Korean tech giant infringed two Apple patents. | ADAM TURNER | The internet is recovering from its biggest security failure yet. But what should you do now? | Will Oremus | Twitter is not dying. It's on the cusp of getting much bigger - here's why. | ADAM TURNER | If you want to trick foreign video services such as Netflix and BBC iPlayer into thinking you're a local, try a simple web browser plug-in. | Jason Hill | The Hobbit film franchise isn't even finished and a Lego tie-in has been rushed out to separate kids from their pocket money. | Serena Saitto 2:39pm | SAP, the largest maker of businesses-management software, shuffles executives to cope with demand for cloud services. | | | Advertisement  More stories Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | |
