Half of house fires happen between 11pm and 7am, a time in which most of us would not be conscious enough to know something’s going on. This is terrifying, but there’s an easy thing you can do to help you survive: Close your bedroom door before you go to bed.

Infant walkers, those wheeled contraptions that give babies who can’t yet walk the sudden ability to walk, are bad. This has been long established. But parents keep using them and so paediatricians are renewing the call for a ban.

After sampling Arthur St tank water on Tuesday, an Adelaide laboratory has confirmed the presence of Escherichia coli in a proportion of South Hobart tap water.

New parenthood comes with an endless list of things you never would have imagined to be cause for panic. Honey. The kitty litter box. Soft bedding. Baby monitors used as spy cams. Here's one more to add to the list: Your own hair.

The shemozzle that has been the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey is drawing to a close and there’s not long left to ensure you have your say on whether or not same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

Make sure you post your response.

The "10-page anti-diversity screed" that got a Google employee fired this week is a prime example of many, many societal ills. Besides the larger issues of systematic oppression, workplace harassment, and misogyny and racism that are rampant in the tech industry at large, there's a simpler lesson to be learned here:

If you'd got a company-wide message board, blog, or Slack channel, maybe use some common sense before blasting something out to the entire staff, including your bosses?

Yesterday, we ran a story discussing how to choose business software. In the comments kal0psia asked "Are there any plans to build a PSA in the actual Suite platform rather than integrating into OpenAir? Last time I checked this still wasn't the case". I followed this up with NetSuite and have an answer.

Android: Google's keyboard packs a ton of simple gestures, but you could miss them if you don't know they're there. For example, if you want to move your cursor, swipe left and right across the space bar.

Very few phones have the new USB-C type cables just yet, but there are enough that manufacturers have jumped on the accessory train. Be careful when you buy, though. Some are so poorly made, they're actually damaging hardware.

The holidays usually means a lot of presents, and that means a lot of empty product boxes to get rid of. When you toss out your boxes, make sure you're not showing off all of the expensive items that are now in your home to potential thieves.