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Apple will be announcing a new iPhone this week, relying on it to bolster slowing sales and claw back market share from the growing segment of Android-powered devices. But don't expect any miracles.

NBN chief says retailers are focusing on low-cost products on lower speed tiers, but that NBN Co will soon start explaining to consumers that if they want they can choose 'speeds much higher than 25Mbps'.

20-year-old PC franchise has struggled in the last decade and a half to produce a game its fans would rather play than 1999's Worms: Armageddon. But this may be it.

A true wireless VR headset, rather than a smartphone holder, Alcatel's Vision stakes a claim in the increasingly crowded virtual reality space.

Device in development would connect existing copper with nearby HFC cable networks to achieve vectored VDSL2 speeds.

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Google's Project Tango is ready to dance thanks to the depth sensing 3D camera built into Lenovo's latest phablet.

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Samsung's expediency to beat Apple to market with a new phone may have backfired, as battery issue gives the iPhone a 'perceptual advantage'.

No battery fire incidents have been reported in Australia, but the company is taking unprecedented steps to address any potential issue to keep customers happy.

Apple's personal assistant grows up, helping you get even more done throughout the day.

Rather than trying to win over the masses, Sony's new Hi-Res Audio range features a gold plated Walkman sporting a new headphone jack vying to become an industry standard.

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Aussies can stream TV recordings to practically any device around their home, or across the internet, after media server giant Plex added access to Australia's free-to-air program guide.

Like so many bright, young entrepreneurs these days, Isaac Choi arrived here last year, set up shop and promised employees that he would lead them to the Silicon Valley dream. That dream is turning out mostly to be a mirage.

The phone is already available in Australia, but global shipments have been delayed after faulty USB-C cables apparently caused multiple units to explode.

Dropbox has confirmed that a data breach discovered and disclosed in 2012 was bigger than previously known, and according to one report could involve almost 69 million accounts.

Samsung has unveiled two new smartwatches which boast a range of digital features while also promising up to four days of battery life, seeking to outshine the Apple Watch 2 a week before the iPhone-maker is expected to reveal it.

It's been the stuff of science fiction since it was deemed theoretically possible in the 1970s. But Sharath Sriram and his research team at RMIT have finally cracked it. They have built an artificial memory cell which could one day function as the grey matter in a bionic brain.

Madman Entertainment last year launched AnimeLab - a service that works like Netflix but comes in free and premium tiers like Spotify - and the Australian company says it's bringing the Japanese entertainment style to brand new audiences.

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When your PC refuses to start there are still ways to retrieve your family photos, office documents and other precious files.

Just days after policy change, Facebook's algorithm chose a very bad, factually incorrect headline to explain to its news-hungry users why "Megyn Kelly" was trending.