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Apple hits back at Australias plans for an anti-encryption law

17 October 2018

Australia is the latest country to push ahead with laws to weaken encryption, but Apple has said this would be a very bad idea

First commercial DNA data storage service set to launch in 2019

4 July 2018

A start-up called Catalog claims it will be able to store a terabyte of data in a gram-sized DNA pellet, but questions remain over whether the technology is ready

Apple's new app is designed to help you use their tech less

6 June 2018

A new app called Screen Time will show iPhone and iPad users how many notifications they receive, how often they pick up their device and how much time they spend on different apps

Papua New Guinea bans Facebook for a month in fake news blitz

30 May 2018

The country is planning a month-long Facebook shutdown to conduct research on the social media network, weed out fake users and stem "false or misleading” information

Internet Health Report shows equality and privacy in trouble

11 April 2018

A report by Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser, says the internet is in a bad way when it comes to equality of access and online censorship

$10m prize to let you feel what a distant robot is feeling

14 March 2018

The ANA XPrize Avatar Challenge wants anyone to be able to control a robot and carry out tasks from 100 kilometres away

Facebook Messenger used to try and deradicalise extremists

28 February 2018

Borrowing a technique used to radicalise people, a think tank wants to change the minds of extremists by chatting with them on Facebook Messenger

DeepMind AI is learning to understand the ‘thoughts’ of others

28 February 2018

The firm’s new artificial intelligence has developed a theory of mind, passing an important psychological assessment that most children only develop around age 4