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Identical doppelgangers meet
Two women who live thousands of miles away have been brought together after learning they are real-life doppelgangers.

The Big Read: Leading the battle against paedophiles
A dedicated team of public servants track paedophiles through the internet's murkiest areas.

Kevin Malloy: Get ready for the Uber moment
Business disquiet about Uberisation is misplaced, writes Kevin Malloy.

EU demands 'peculiar, problematic': Google
Google has ridiculed demands by European Union antitrust regulators to change the way it displays search results as "peculiar and problematic".

How to get a game funded on Kickstarter
How can game developers achieve crowdfunding success? A study by a data analytics firm has uncovered the big secret.

Ashley Madison hack sees spam emails rise
The company's researchers have observed a surge in spam activity since the breach, with attackers attempting to prey on victims and their partners.

Paul Thomas: Ashley Madison hack leaves no stomach unchurned
When is hacking good, and when is it bad? The Ashley Madison leak offers a curly conundrum, writes Paul Thomas.

Why are we obsessed with the super-rich?
You'd have thought that we would have got over our fascination with the wealthy. But we haven't.

Juha Saarinen: Fascinating insight into Internet of Things
The internet of Things - IoT - is a marketing buzz-term, but the whole thing will be upon us sooner rather than later, writes Juha Saarinen.

Jennifer Patterson: I'm on the Madison database, and it's changed what I share about my kids
Frankly, I was intrigued. Really? Eight million folks had signed up to have affairs with neighbors? What brought about that level of marital unhappiness - and secrecy?

William Pesek: SoftBank boss gives Japanese economy a jolt
Foreigners don't have all the answers, but they are responsible for Japan's biggest corporate governance successes this year, writes William Pesek.

Woman live tweets plane break-up
Woman turns plane delay into gripping Twitter soap opera, live-tweeting the break-up of a couple across the aisle from her.

Jayne Lucke: The most tragic casualty of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal
A range of implications associated with the Ashley Madison hacking scandal have emerged, writes sex and relationship expert, Jayne Lucke.

Christopher Niesche: Plague of short-term thinking
Christopher Niesche writes: The jobs and education portal is a mature business in Australia so it has to look for growth overseas, particularly in Asia.

Editorial: Aussies show the way with tax initiative
If Australia's initiative works well enough, this country should be quick to follow suit.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Go after the hackers, not the users
The fallout from the Ashley Madison hack will hurt victims of pranks who have never cheated, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Selfie queen 'threatened' to reveal bisexuality
Selfie queen Karen Danczuk has revealed she is bisexual after claims a former partner had threatened to expose her.

Employee told 'create fake profiles'
A former employee of the Ashley Madison adultery website has claimed she was told to create hundreds of fake profiles of female 'members' to entice men to join up.

Russell Brand quits social media
British comedian and activist Russell Brand is quitting social media and his YouTube series The Trews, saying he is sick of becoming the story.

Are we meant to be monogamous?
Unless you're lucky enough to live under a rock, you've probably heard that Ashley Madison, a dating site that caters to married folks looking to cheat on their spouses, has had a huge data leak.

Editorial: Adultery site hack a threat to everyone
Some might cheer Ashley Madison breach, but it shows even ordinary people can be hit and hurt by the cyber-zealots.

Sky TV toughs out first year of competition
Sky TV's emerged from its first year of viable pay TV competition with only a few scratches.

Juha Saarinen: Death by data leak
The fallout from the Ashley Madison hack is a massive wake-up call that all of us need to take greater care with our data, writes Juha Saarinen.

Snapchat the best $3b Facebook never spent
Snapchat lost $128 million during the first 11 months of 2014. And it took in just $3 million in revenue over the same period.

Why Ashley Madison's founder thinks cheating can help marriages
Ashley Madison's founder has long argued that the unfaithful are unfairly stigmatized. Not only that, he thinks that the world would be a better place if more people cheated on their spouses.

'Appalling' Facebook page slims down plus-size stars
Appalling or inspiring? Under the guise of "public service", a fat-shaming Facebook page is photoshopping famous plus-sized models to make them look thinner.

Government staff names on cheating site
Personal information of hundreds of Australian Government employees have been exposed by the hackers of the Ashley Madison dating service.

Prezzy Card keeps Kiwis under wraps
Cunning Kiwi cheaters could escape being unmasked through the Ashley Madison data dump scandal after signing up with anonymous gift cards.

Photoshopped Diana: Sweet or creepy?
Image of Princess Diana looking over Princess Charlotte at her christening has gone viral.