Grab your Hammer pants – it's the '90s again: Facebook brings Virtual Reality back
But why exactly does it want to be a hardware company?
Personal Tech13 Apr 2016 | 37
Mark has worked in the technology industry since the late 1980s, and has contributed to all manner of products, from dial-up modems to 3D graphics including co-inventing VRML. He is an award-winning columnist who writes regularly for The Register. His full bio can be found here.
Australia's broadband policy is a flimsy, cynical House of Cards
Prime Minister Turnbull is strangling our economy
Legal06 Apr 2016 | 37
It's nuts but 'shared' is still shorthand for 'worthless'
But it won't be long before sharing's wealth-creation potential is realised
On-Prem23 Mar 2016 | 46
Home Ebola testing with a Tricorder? There's an app for that
DNA-testing peripherals for smartphones are here. And DNA can change your day
Applications09 Mar 2016 | 26
Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
What are the ten largest cities with female mayors? For the first time, machines can answer
Software25 Feb 2016 | 26
Bitcoin's governance bungles stain the blockchain's reputation
If the cryptocurrency can't organise its own evolution, we lose a chance at better security
Security11 Feb 2016 | 26
Sensors, not CPUs, are the tech that swings the smartphone market
The more your phone knows about the world, the more useful - and invasive - it becomes
Personal Tech28 Jan 2016 | 42
A granny and a marriage celebrant show Turnbull's 4ked the NBN
Immersive cameras are mainstream, but our networks aren't built to deliver the content
Legal14 Jan 2016 | 14
Rebels defeat the Empire (again) by giving BB-8 an API
Disney omitted an API for The Force Awakens' star droid. The Force of the internet decided that wasn't good enough
Software16 Dec 2015 | 37
Samsung Gear VR is good. So good 2016 could be year virtual reality finally makes it
But can anyone make VR content? Ask whoever runs your local film school ...
Personal Tech26 Nov 2015 | 74
Hackathons: Don't try them if you don't like risks
Rules and tools to get the most out of your pizza-replete staff
On-Prem12 Nov 2015 | 14
Insurance companies must start buying security companies
Insurers have no idea how to protect the digital realm. So they need to buy those who do
On-Prem29 Oct 2015 | 27
Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under
Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation
On-Prem15 Oct 2015 | 81
Grounded: Can big data do for agri-business what it's not doing for retail?
Agriculture proving fertile ground for analytical startups
HPC24 Sep 2015 | 6
Batteries on wheels are about to reshape our cities and lives
Cars as we know them shaped our cities in bad ways that IT will untangle
Science10 Sep 2015 | 55
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined
Kids don't want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can't perceive
Software27 Aug 2015 | 106
Telcos' revenge is coming as SDN brings a way to build smart pipes
Wanna watch the Olympics in 8K with no jitter? Hand over your credit card, kid
Networks06 Aug 2015 | 18
Today's smart home devices are too dumb to succeed
You want me to do what? And remember it? On how many apps? Fuggedaboutit
Personal Tech27 Jul 2015 | 57
Smartphones are ludicrously under-used, so steal their brains
Who needs computers everywhere when the one in your pocket is ready for work?
Personal Tech09 Jul 2015 | 73
The slow strangulation of telework in Australia
We need uploads if we're not just watching TV
Networks25 Jun 2015 | 46
Teaching kids to code is self-defence, not a vocational skill
Kids should learn to strangle Python, not just Scratch out a few lines of code
Software11 Jun 2015 | 66
There's data in your dashboard, so liberate it from Big Auto's grasp
It's time to listen – really listen – to your car
Personal Tech28 May 2015 | 38
Nobody should have to see their own rear, but that's what Turnbull's NBN will do to Australia
4K is just the beginning: Virtual Reality's second coming will need even more bandwidth
Networks22 Apr 2015 | 17
The Internet of things is great until it blows up your house
How to stop hackers letting the gas flow in your connected oven? Bitcoin has the answer
Networks17 Apr 2015 | 126
Netflix fail proves copper NBN leaves Australia utterly 4Ked
The rest of the world is accelerating, while we hesitate and are lost
Networks08 Apr 2015 | 64
When cash is King, mobile money means economic freedom
Kenya's M-PESA mobile payment service is beating bitcoin
On-Prem26 Mar 2015 | 8
Australians! Let us all rise up against data retention
Comment State surveillance will force us to build privacy tools that degrade our polity
Security11 Mar 2015 | 51
Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA
We all owe plenty to the mainframe age's pioneers
Software26 Feb 2015 | 37
Over 50? Out of work? Watch out because IT is about to eat itself
AI is coming to take sysadmins' jobs, but greybeards have an escape route
On-Prem11 Feb 2015 | 124
Windows 10 heralds the Minecraft-isation of Microsoft
Redmond is building a stack of visualisation tools for the generation that grew up with clickable everything
Software29 Jan 2015 | 59
Sony hack was good news for INSURERS and INVESTORS
Spilling Hollywood's secrets woke money-land to the need for intrusive oversight
Security15 Jan 2015 | 22
This Christmas, demand the right to a silent night
Usability is about lifestyle impact, not just ease-of-use
Software09 Dec 2014 | 69
The gender imbalance in IT is real, ongoing and ridiculous
The Z80 and 6502 generation wore the sexist stereotype, now it's up to them to fix it
On-Prem27 Nov 2014 | 138
The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning
When even senior sysadmins work on an iPhone connected to an Apple TV, the end is nigh
Personal Tech12 Nov 2014 | 122
Naked and afraid: that's how Telstra's Wi-Fi security makes you feel
All it takes is 1 angry teen with Wireshark and root access
Security29 Oct 2014 | 20
Mobile carriers keep the promised land on an ever-receding horizon
Nobody - not you, devlopers or carriers - can afford the next generation of mobile services
Networks17 Oct 2014 | 19
Biting the hand that feeds IT
