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PAX Australia plays its cards right
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Wandering around Melbourne's PAX gaming expo you soon realise that it's less about what you can see and more about what you can do.
Samsung seeks AI-powered comeback
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Samsung plans to equip its next Galaxy S phones with a Siri-like digital assistant.
Huawei's Mate 9 Porsche phone costs more than $2000
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Huawei has finally revealed the Mate 9, alongside a special Porsche edition of the smartphone and the Huawei Fit Fitness tracker.
Google Home is promising, but still a work in progress
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When Google Home works, it is nothing short of delightful. It just doesn't always work.
Why light bulbs may be the next hacker target
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Researchers say they have uncovered a flaw in wireless technology that is often included in smart home devices like lights, switches, locks, and many of the components of the "smart home" of the future.
Can Microsoft Teams out-Slack Slack?
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Microsoft's latest effort to release us from 'Reply All' hell faces some pretty stiff competition.
Samsung's new audio offering gives instant cinema sound at home
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Samsung's latest home theatre offering is the HW-K950 — a Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar that delivers far more immersive sound than I thought possible from this form factor.
Microsoft's own answer to Slack
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You can think of Microsoft Teams as a workplace chat app with extras.
Bracing for Australia's 2G shutdown
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Australians relying on budget Telstra mobile resellers, including Woolworths Connect and ALDImobile, are at risk of being caught out by Telstra's impending 2G shutdown as the deadline fast approaches.
Telstra's biggest worry has landed in Australia
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A start-up is offering unlimited data at very fast speeds for a relatively affordable price, shaking up Australia's telco market.
ATO fumes after cyber criminals attack myGov during finals days of tax returns
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Tensions emerge between Tax Office and Human Services after hackers take down myGov
All the Australian Game Developer Awards winners
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On Wednesday night, the country's game dev community came together for the 2016 Australian Game Developer Awards, a celebration of the talent that local artists, composers and coders have poured into homegrown titles in the last 12 months. Here are this year's winners.
Centrelink apologises for new privacy breach
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Rookie email error shares hundred of email addresses – twice.
Titanfall 2 realises potential of the original game
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By including a stellar solo mode, Titanfall 2 fully lives up to the mech fantasy promise of the multiplayer-only original game.
War-weary billionaire backs Trump for wrong reasons
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Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is supporting Donald Trump for many reasons. One of them is that he is weary of endless war.
Minecraft Education Edition comes to classrooms
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Teachers are getting the building blocks they need to lead lessons in Minecraft worlds as Microsoft launches Minecraft Education Edition.
Apple patent shows foldable iPhone
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A new patent awarded to Apple today, uncovered by Patently Apple, shows the company is exploring a foldable iPhone concept, confirming what rumours have long suggested.
How Apple lost to Microsoft last week
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Last week, Apple and Microsoft had dueling product launch events. And in the tech version of this 'Who wore it better?' contest, the winner seems to be: Microsoft.
Strong Facebook network associated with longer life in new study
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As our social lives have moved onto social media sites like Facebook over the past decade, there's been a lot of hand-wringing over what all that screen time might be doing to our health.