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Yahoo's teen prodigy ponders future

The 19-year old who sold his news-summary app Summly to Yahoo for $30 million at 17 now splits his time between studying philosophy at Oxford and managing Yahoo's News Digest team.

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Ben Burge, the man hoping to re-ignite the electricity market

Andrew Colley 12:15am | Meet Ben Burge, the math whiz trying to shake up the staid retail energy market with a smartphone app and a good dose of analytics.

Qwant wants to be a search alternative to Google

Mark Scott 11:40am | Founders hope Qwant's focus on privacy and attempts to combine social media posts and traditional search results will set it apart from Google.

Snapchat snaps up half a billion dollars in investment

A range of start-ups across the world, including Snapchat, are working to create communications systems that are not based on saving as a default.

Sarah Frier 10:01am | Snapchat capped the year with a filing that disclosed it raised $594 million.

Billionaire Elon Musk splits with actress wife for a second time

Elon Musk and Talulah Riley have announced they are splitting amicably for a second time, with the PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla founder agreeing to give $19.56 million to his former partner.

Brian Melley 7:01am | When Elon Musk split up with wife, Talulah Riley, for the first time, he told the whole world. This time it's a slightly quieter event.

Sydney New Year's Eve: Uber's $213 fare from city to Coogee

The $213 fare from the city to Coogee on New Year's Eve.

Pallavi Singhal 9:35am | A $35 trip home from the Sydney CBD to Coogee cost Jade Wilkes $213 with an Uber car service on New Year's Eve.

Science centres in the school holidays

The appliance of science: Research suggests that visits to science centres such as Questacon help foster the public's interest or curiosity in science.

NICKY PHILLIPS | Parents spending their holidays chasing over-excited children through a maze of hands-on experiments can take comfort in knowing it was more than a bit of fun.

Probe launched after ACT police retweet porn

ACT Police's twitter account retweeted a pornographic image and followed the twitter account

MICHAEL INMAN 5:18pm | ACT Policing has launched an internal probe to discover how its official twitter account retweeted pornographic selfies.

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