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Apple iOS 8: Top 11 features

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Apple iOS 8: Top 11 features

It's not a total overhaul but rather a major step forward in ease of use and intuitive operation. Here's what to expect when you upgrade your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch's operating system.

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What's inside that counts: iOS 8 the best part of iPhone 6

Sleek: the Apple iPhone 6, left, and iPhone 6 Plus.
Molly Wood 1:14pm | Apple's new software combines some of the advanced features of Android with Apple's ease of use and reliability.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 review

Exceptional: The 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S in bronze.
Jenneth Orantia 10:39am | The lion's share of Android tablets are more or less the same, but this is a rare exception.

Hackers hold thousands of Australian computers for ransom

The Cryptolocker software.
BEN GRUBB | Some 20,000 Australian computers have been infected with software that encrypts files and asks for a ransom.

Destiny review: Less than the sum of its parts

Flawed: There's plenty to like in <i>Destiny</i>, but it isn't all it should be.
James 'DexX' Dominguez 1:16pm | Destiny may have broken sales records, but underneath all the polish is a game that feels like it should be better than it is.

Hands on: ReSound "Made for iPhone" LiNX hearing aid

ReSound's LiNX
ADAM TURNER 10:29am | A hearing aid you can drive with your smartphone sounds like the ultimate hipster accessory, but it actually makes a lot of sense.

Rosetta mission control announces comet landing site

Comet 67P
NICKY PHILLIPS 5:08pm | Scientists have announced the site where a spacecraft will attempt the first landing on a comet.

Higgs: a pioneer as elusive as his particle

Professor Peter Higgs poses for a photograph following a news conference at the launch of The University of Edinburgh's new Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Scotland July 6, 2012.  REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION SOCIETY) - RTR34NK8    AFR 02-11-2013
Dennis Overbye 12:57am | Nobel laureate Peter Higgs' public appearances have been as rare and fleeting as the tracks of the Higgs boson.

Trials and tribulations of stem cell therapy

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Karen Weintraub 12:57am | Edgar Irastorza was just 31 when his heart stopped beating in October 2008.

Australian digital film prices 'cheapest in the world'

AHEDA says new research shows Australians shouldn't be pirating.
BEN GRUBB 11:36pm | Australia is one of the cheapest markets in the world for digital films online, new research demonstrates.

School girls make tampon video game to destigmatise periods

Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser created Tampon Run during the Girls Who Code summer immersion program.
Hannah Francis 4:17pm | Two New York school girls have created a video game that features tampons instead of weapons.

US Navy-created 'dark network' lets users buy drugs and child porn

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Jake Wallis Simons | Ten years ago, the US Navy invented an anonymous internet network. Today the ''dark web'' is used to trade guns, drugs and child pornography.
 

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