Technology
Google to wipe data on new accounts after 18 months
After years of criticism about how it keeps a record of what people do online, Google said it would start automatically deleting location history and records of web and app activity for new users after 18 months.
- by Daisuke Wakabayashi
Latest
Opinion
Apple
Why Apple putting its own chip in its Mac is such a big deal
Apple makes a point of keeping its products under lock and key until they are almost ready to go on sale, but this week, it made an exception.
- by James Titcomb
Inventors
Japanese supercomputer Fugaku crowned the world's most powerful
China and the United States are locked in a contest to develop the world's most powerful computers. Now a massive machine in Japan has topped them both.
- by Don Clark
Apple
Apple previews new iPhone software, switches to 'game changer' Mac chips
Apple has provided a glimpse at upcoming software changes designed to make the iPhone easier to use and also announced a long-anticipated shift to a new type of chip to power its line of Mac computers.
- by Michael Liedtke
Opinion
Home tech
Foxtel's soft-look streaming is not the future
Binge is the only major streaming service not to offer a 4K HDR option.
- by Adam Turner
Review
Video games
Brutal and beautiful, The Last of Us sequel is a harrowing masterpiece
There's a lot more to Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic opus than horrible violence and flesh-hungry zombies.
- by Tim Biggs
Exclusive
Information security
Hackers post evidence they have beer giant Lion's confidential files
The hackers that attacked the Australian beverage giant are threatening to auction or publish sensitive information on the dark web unless they are paid a $1 million.
- by Ben Grubb
Exclusive
Information security
'Cyber crisis' deepens at Lion as second attack bites beer giant
An Australia-based beverage giant has been hit by a second cyber attack after its manufacturing was crippled by hackers demanding a ransom of reportedly $1 million last week.
- by Ben Grubb
Wearables
Data deluge: Google's Fitbit acquisition could be anti-competitive, says ACCC
The search giant could use Fitbit data to further cement its domination in the digital ads market, competition watchdog warns.
- by Tim Biggs
