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Artificial intelligence 'not a threat'

Machines will eventually achieve a human-like consciousness but do not pose a threat to the survival of mankind, Microsoft head of research.

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Apple iPhone 6 Plus: How Steve Jobs got it wrong, big time

STEPHEN HUTCHEON | He was a genius and a visionary with an amazing track record of picking winners.

Meet Criteo, the company behind some of the ads that stalk you online

Criteo managing director Australia and New Zealand Jeremy Crooks says his company only follows people around the web 'a tiny bit'.

HANNAH FRANCIS | "Retargeted" advertising promises businesses more bang for their buck, but are your comfortable with them?

#Knightmare: Prince Philip battle rules social media mentions

LUCY CORMACK 6:50pm | On Australia Day Prime Minister Tony Abbott awarded knighthoods to two people.

Danger abounds in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

READ THE BOOK: A major Witcher 3 leak has left spoilers all over the web.

James 'DexX' Dominguez 12:22pm | Game set to achieve a delicate balancing act, juggling branching storylines, a huge open world, and tightly designed combat action.

WorkMail: Amazon rolls out email and calendar

Amazon Web Services is entering the email in the cloud business.

Jay Greene 12:44pm | Amazon is launching a web-based corporate email service, available on any device.

'Completely nuts': Faraway planet is lord of the rings

An artist impression of the extrasolar ring system around the young giant planet or brown dwarf J1407b. Saturn is seen on the top right.

Mariette LE ROUX 10:47am | Astronomers have found the first-ever ringed planet beyond our Solar System, a super-world with a girdle of halos 200 times bigger than Saturn's.

Facebook revenue tops estimates on back of mobile advertising

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a long-term plan for how Facebook will make money.

Sarah Frier 10:30am | Facebook has reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts' estimates, fueled by the mobile-advertising business that the company is now expanding.

Apple supplier Foxconn seeks to reduce 1.3m workforce, eyes robots

Jobseekers pass their resumes to representatives from Foxconn Technology Group at a job fair in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Michael Gold and Yimou Lee 5:04pm | The world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, wants to reduce its massive workforce with the help of automation.

White House drone crash linked to drunk intelligence worker

The drone that landed on the White House lawn has reignited security concerns.

Michael S. Schmidt and Michael D. Shear | Drunk, off-duty employee for a government intelligence agency decided it was a good time to test-fly quadcopter.

Hackers do battle for the forces of good

The 2014 Australian BattleHack winners, Team GearbBox, from Sydney.

Cynthia Karena 11:45pm | The annual BattleHack conference is about encouraging budding developers to pool their skills to create useful products.

Narcissists take big sticks to selfie love

Say cheese: The selfie stick aids a growing cultural obsession with the self.

David Carr 11:45pm | Selfies are hardly new but the improvement in technology of putting a phone on a stick suggests the obsession with the self is growing.

Storytellers find versatile medium in podcasting

Andrew Masterson 11:45pm | The extraordinary success of the program "Serial" has commentators tipping a big year ahead for podcasting.

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