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Transgender? Now you can declare it on Facebook

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Transgender? Now you can declare it on Facebook

Fully customisable gender option comes to Australia for the first time.

Top stories

Man who terrorised video game creator now says it was a 'joke'

Jan Rankowski, the self-proclaimed 'extreme comedian' who posted rambling YouTube videos as Jace Connors.
James 'DexX' Dominguez 7:33am | A notorious harasser who threatened a prominent video game creator identified, now claims his videos were a 'satire' of GamerGate.

Apple to hold March 9 event ahead of watch's April release

Apple has sent out invitations to a March 9 event.
Tim Higgins 9:43am | Apple has sent out invitations to an event on March 9 in San Francisco.

What Brandis and Turnbull can do to fix metadata muddle

Escape key
BEN GRUBB 1:05pm | We take a look at the issues many academics, privacy advocates and civil libertarians have raised with the data retention scheme.

Push to clip Brandis' metadata wings

George Brandis will be expected to respond to the recommendations soon.
BEN GRUBB 10:23am | Powerful parliamentary committee scrutinising metadata retention laws makes a number of recommendations.

Age only a number when it comes to tech self-starters

Ron Hunt scored a permanent gig in the US at 69.
Sylvia Pennington 11:36am | Some mature ICT professionals are refusing to let age hold them back or stand in the way of their start-up dreams.

3D printing: Melbourne engineers print jet engine in world first

The 3D printed jet engine on display at the Avalon Airshow.
MARISSA CALLIGEROS | Engineers working from a garage-size lab in Melbourne’s suburbs have made the world’s first 3D printed jet engine.

Barack Obama, Steve Wozniak celebrate net neutrality victory

Michael Copps, ex-commissioner of the FCC, speaks in favour of net neutrality during a demonstration outside of FCC headquarters in Washington, DC.
Jo Tovey 10:47am | Thursday described as a "red letter day for internet freedom" in the US.

Iran behind cyberattack of Las Vegas gambling juggernaut, US says

Sheldon Adelson (left), chief of Las Vegas Sands Corporation and his wife Miriam Adelson attend the ground breaking ceremony of the Cotai Strip in Macau.
Tony Capaccio 5:55am | The top US intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.

Scientists nervous to even study craters

One of the craters in a Siberian area called
3:55am | The Siberian crater saga is more widespread — and scarier — than anyone thought.

Privacy Commissioner considers inquiry into Gemalto SIM cards hack

Gemalto, the world's biggest maker of phone SIM cards, will not pursue any legal action against government agencies it says are probably behind a large-scale hacking attempt as chances of success are nearly non-existent, CEO Olivier Piou said.
HANNAH FRANCIS 6:05pm | Security experts have rubbished claims from Dutch company Gemalto that its mobile phone SIM cards remain secure.
 

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