Australians complained of slow website load times and problems completing the census online, but the cause of #CensusFail may be something far more serious. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said it was hit with a deliberate and “malicious” attack from offshore, designed to sabotage the 2016 Census. The bureau had called on the whole of …

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Tech-giant Google has added three features to its popular navigational and mapping app, Google Maps. For Android users who don’t want to incur data charges or have to succumb to the fact that they live in an area with spotty network coverage, you now have the option to access Maps only when you’re on a Wi-Fi network, through the settings …

Google plans to begin pushing Adobe Flash Player closer to its inexorable grave at the end of the year with a new version of its Chrome web browser. Chrome 55, which the web giant plans to release in December, will replace Flash with HTML5, Google said on Monday. Noting that the browser plug-in has played a key role in the …

If the rumors and leaked product photos are to be believed, the iPhone 7 won’t have a headphone jack. The horror! This might require a little decision-making, either now or down the road. Obviously you can keep your current iPhone if you like (at least for a while), or you can call Apple’s bluff and switch to Android. Enlarge Image …

Soon, everyone will be allowed to create Moments on Twitter. The social network said Tuesday it’s letting a broader group of influential people and brands make their own Moments by adding their own tweets and content to the popular feature. Twitter plans on letting everyone using the platform do the same in the coming months. “By extending this creative format …

In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die. Thankfully, the stakes are a lot lower in the game of audience demand, where the paranormal nostalgia series “Stranger Things” is inching closer to knocking off top dog “Game of Thrones.” Enlarge Image Parrot Analytics Parrot Analytics, which measures audience demand across all platforms, has HBO’s “Game of Thrones” …

An Evangelical church in Sweden plans to use military drones to try to persuade Muslims in Syria to convert to Christianity. But instead of using the unmanned aerial vehicles to drop bombs, Livets Ord plans to drop Bibles — thousands of electronic copies — over the region wracked by religious-inspired violence in recent years. The church, whose name translates to …

Now playing: Watch this: Two new Apple Watches coming this year, report says 1:24 The first Apple Watch didn’t exactly light the world afire. A new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says two new Apple Watches will debut in the second half of 2016. These devices would not be a radical departure from the original Apple Watch. Both …

While Marvel fans have to wait until 2017 to see troublemaker villain-sometimes-superhero-ally Loki in action in “Thor: Ragnarok,” actor Tom Hiddleston decided to give everyone a sneak peek of his character. On Tuesday, Hiddleston joined Instagram and posted his first photo — a selfie of himself dressed as Loki with the caption “He’s back!” The trickster character Loki hasn’t appeared …