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iWatch finally outed as Apple recruits exec

"Our sales director left yesterday because he took a contract from Apple to launch the iWatch", says TAG Heuer boss.

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An emoji-only social network

A handful of emoji, which number in the thousands and cover various emotions, objects and ideas.

ROSE POWELL | A social network that offers zero words and only little pictures known as emojis is about to launch. How did it come to this?

Police scoop up data on thousands

Data concerns: Law enforcement agencies are conducting 'tower dumps' to find criminals.

Ben Grubb and Emma Partridge | Police ordering phone providers to hand over personal information about thousands.

Exploring virtual worlds

Fantasy world: Using Zero Latency you can run around mountains, fly helicopters and even slay zombies in dark alleyways.

ADAM TURNER | Built around the Oculus Rift headset, the Australian-developed virtual reality system transports you to another world.

Why Facebook pulled hunting pics

Kendall Jones posing with a leopard -- one of her Facebook photos removed this weekend.

Chris Taylor 11:57am | Facebook removes pictures of Texas cheerleader posing with various animals she had shot.

Drones' amazing fireworks footage

Fireworks

Brian Anthony Hernandez | Your ground-level view of exploding fireworks is nothing compared to this stunning airborne spectacle.

NASA robots get Android brains

Synchronised Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites floating in zero-gravity in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.

11:08am | Android smartphones will become the brains and eyes of ball-shaped hovering robots on the space station.

Latest game releases: Valiant Hearts

Light puzzle-solving punctuates a soulful story in <i>Valiant Hearts: The Great War</i>.

Tim Biggs | Plus fresh old-school platforming, gruesome sniping, a new Transformers game and underwater strategy role-playing.

Federation dumps male-only events

The issue was originally sparked when some <i>Hearthstone</i> players found they couldn't compete in an event at Assembly Summer 2014 because of their gender.

James 'DexX' Dominguez | International e-Sports Federation will now only hold 'open-to-all' and female-only events.

Local studio takes on Borderlands

Lasers and low gravity are obvious implications of taking the story to the moon for the creators of <i>Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel</i>.

James 'DexX' Dominguez | Australian studio entrusted to fill a big gap in Gearbox's beloved Borderlands saga.

EA Sports UFC review

Photo-realism: Antonio Silva, as seen in EA Sports UFC, a mixed martial arts fight game for the aficionados.

Jason Hill | Developers of brutal game clearly trying to woo aficionados with their passion, enthusiasm and respect for UFC.

Facebook experiments had few limits

New information claims that the secret Facebook experiments were more widespread than the controversial mood manipulation study.

Philip Sherwell | Researchers at Facebook were given almost free rein to manipulate the news feeds and sometimes the emotions of users.

How to delete Facebook completely

Deleting Facebook: more difficult than you might think.

Kyli Singh | With its ever-changing privacy policies, becoming Facebook-free requires more steps than just hitting the delete button.

Chumby lives, but is it too late?

Just like the PDA, sat-nav and compact digital camera, the Chumby smart alarm clock has lost out to smartphones.

ADAM TURNER | Is there any room left for a smart alarm clock in your smartphone-dominated life?

Mobile anti-virus not needed: Google

Android permissions got a little scarier.

BEN GRUBB | The majority of Android smartphone and tablet users do not need to install anti-virus, head of Android security says.

3D printing confronts everyday world

It took just three hours to design a replacement dishwasher tray bracket. It cost just $1.60, about 2 per cent of the part's $45 retail price tag, to print.

MAHESH SHARMA | Fixing broken appliances is no longer a case of forking out for expensive labour and parts, if you have a 3D printer.

E-book stores: Google v Kobo

Google Play's e-book store.

ADAM TURNER | E-books make it easy to carry around an entire library in your pocket, but choose your e-book format and store with care.

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