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Uber executive's threat to media

An executive of a car hire service which has risen from tech start-up to $US17 billion international giant in four years declared to a dinner table that the company should spend $1 million hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on journalists to silence them.

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Telstra public Wi-Fi will be free to customers until early next year

Serving customers: More than two million hotspots are to be installed in public areas across the country.

HANNAH FRANCIS 1:28pm | On Wednesday the telco activated the first 150 hotspots out of an initial 1000 trial locations in urban and regional centres.

Netflix in Australia: will local users make the switch?

Netflix's BoJack Horseman is coming to Australia, for Aussies who haven't already snuck into Netflix.

ADAM TURNER | Will Aussies sneaking into Netflix switch to the local service when it arrives next year?

iPhone, CCTV and SMS: how Ted nabbed a thief digital-style

Gotcha: Citizen's arrest helped by technology.

Sue Hewitt | A quick-thinking Melbourne man used digital tools and crowdsourcing to identify, locate and make a citizen's arrest of an alleged burglar.

Apple releases WatchKit for Apple Watch

Delay: Apple Watch was launched this month but won't be on sale until next year.

HANNAH FRANCIS 11:01am | Apple has released the developers' kit for its forthcoming wearables device, Apple Watch.

Will Generation Z be as connected as we are?

The new generation may not be as tied to their devices as their elders.

Leonid Bershidsky 9:56am | Today's hot tech companies may soon be in for some nasty surprises, as teenagers pushing back against technology dependence.

Nokia introduces Android tablet in return to mobile devices

Sebastian Nystrom, head of Product Business at Nokia Technologies, presents Nokia's new N1 Android tablet at the Slush 2014 event in Helsinki.

Adam Ewing 1:09am | Nokia has unveiled a tablet running Google's Android software, marking a return by the former smartphone-market leader into mobile devices.

IBM hopes to end email dependency

LIA TIMSON 2:00am | Verse combines analytics, cloud computing and social features to let your email work better with you.

Facebook launches spinoff Groups app

Facebook Groups is the latest feature to be spun off from the social network as a separate app.

HANNAH FRANCIS 5:00am | Social media monolith Facebook has added another stand-alone mobile app to its growing number of offsprings.

Breakthrough in image-recognition software identifies objects

John Markoff 2:38pm | Advances may make it possible to better catalogue and search for the billions of images online.

University fines students for pirating movies, TV shows

Students at UNSW have been fined for downloading copyright infringing content.

BEN GRUBB | University fines pirates and uses money raised for facilities instead of returning it to copyright owners.

Bayonetta 2 review: style and substance

Don't let the constant winking or suit-made-out-of-hair fool you, Bayonetta is all about the combat.

Tim Biggs | Underneath Bayonetta 2's amazingly outrageous aesthetic beats the heart of one of the best fighting systems of all time.

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