DGtek brings gigabit fibre to Aussie suburbs
Following the lead of Google in the US, Melbourne telco DGtek is launching a 1 Gbps suburban GPON fibre service this month to serve homes and businesses hungry for bandwidth.
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How Qantas' free Wi-Fi might ease turbulence
New service will feature speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional on-board Wi-Fi, meaning you can not only stream movies and TV shows, but the Qantas Flight Operations and Engineering teams are looking at how they can use the connectivity in more beneficial ways.
How public USBs could stream your phone's screen to anyone
A little-known feature of many modern smartphones is their ability to duplicate video on the device's screen so that it also shows up on a much larger display — like a TV. However, new research shows that this feature may quietly expose users to a simple and cheap form of spying.
Aussie Tesla fan powers car, home from sun
Clint Luna charges his car and powers his home using Tesla's Powerwall, relying on Queensland's sunny weather for a reliable solar-powered boost.
Optus EPL fail: sports fans deserve better
As English Premier League fans suffer at the hands of Optus, the ACCC needs to intervene when broadcasters and telcos can't deliver on their streaming sports promises.
Who's afraid of Kara Swisher? Silicon Valley.
US journalist and entrepreneur Kara Swisher, the scourge of Silicon Valley, is short, sharp, and if you're a tech entrepreneur messing up, very, very scary.
Brutal online game stretches the boundaries
"I don't think you really play Eve to have fun."
Facebook's war on ad blockers blocked
Adblock Plus is already blocking Facebook's efforts to block ad blockers from blocking ads.
The key to choosing the right password
The absurdity of teaching people to use passwords that are hard for humans to use but easy for computers to guess was beautifully captured in the much-loved web comic by Randall Munroe of Xkcd.
How to tell which tweets are really from Trump
A data scientist has analysed Donald Trump's Twitter feed and shown a reliable way to tell which tweets were sent by the controversial US presidential hopeful himself, and which were sent by one of his staff members.
Another Snapchat lens prompts calls of racism
Mere months after Snapchat's Bob Marley filter, the app is at it again with a lens that makes users look a lot like a racist caricature.
Roomba 980: Vac your home from anywhere in the world
New version of the autonomous vacuum robot comes with an app that lets you issue commands remotely.
New MacBook Pros to have touchscreen keys
Apple is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, but we're not likely to see them anytime soon.
The persistent problem with podcasts
Podcasts have been around for a decade, but remain hampered by both technical issues and content deficiencies.
ABS needs to get its story straight
A malicious flash mob supposedly knocked out the census, rather than an attempted break-in, but either way the ABS needs to restore Australia's confidence in the system.
First pictures of night parrot nest
What or who was behind this outback murder-mystery?
The lost art of correct speaker placement
Lots of people get their speaker placement all wrong.
Apple crashes Samsung's Rio party
Samsung is the mobile phone sponsor of the Rio Games and sells its handsets exclusively to hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to Olympic venues — but Apple is tempting some of them outside with its own unofficial Games merchandise.
Census should have withstood DDoS attack
That the site was attacked is not in the least bit surprising, but it's unexpected that an attack of this kind would result in the site going down.
The lingering embers of discovering fire
Figuring out how to make fire was no doubt an evolutionary boon to our ancestors. But it may have led to our smoking habit and the emergence of tuberculosis.