​Mark Zuckerberg has a new housemate: Jarvis, an artificial intelligence assistant he created this year that can control appliances, play music, recognise faces and, perhaps most impressively, entertain his toddler.

It is being sold as salvation for Japan's lonely hearts. An attractive companion will send you text messages throughout the day to ask how you are, and welcome you home with a kind word in the evenings, the house warmed just as you like it. You can watch television together, and chat.

Uber has begun trialling self-driving cars in San Francisco, a sign the ride-share company is staking its future on doing away with drivers altogether.

It seems that even driverless robots need friends.

"He effectively told her her role on the project was just to be an ornament."

Amazon has revealed that it will open a brick-and-mortar grocery store called Amazon Go, an ambitious bid by the once online-only retailer to gobble up more of Americans' shopping dollars by taking the fight more directly to traditional supermarkets.

Software company bought in big when 3D printing looked like the next big thing, but it didn't exactly pan out.

'Established manufacturers and new entrants should be treated equally' when it comes to autonomous cars, iPhone-maker tells US regulator.

Google's latest gadget is an always on, always listening little speaker called Home. It's a cute design, a friendly little blob of a thing that looks like a half finished cartoon character. It's also not available in Australia, if you want one you'll need to have one shipped to you from the US.

Hundreds of high-tech high-skilled jobs in fast-growing businesses are going begging in Sydney because the city has become too boring and expensive, leading entrepreneurs say. 

Hate doing laundry? This Laundroid doesn't only wash and dry garments, but also sort, fold and neatly arrange them. Now its Japanese inventor has won $71 million from investors including Panasonic, and is preparing to take the business public.

Slush is coming to Australia. But what makes this start-up conference different than the rest?

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An Australian teenager has developed a maths theorem that solves ‘the unsolvable’.

Drone racing and Sexpo made strange but exciting bedfellows at the weekend.

Sean Ellis is a one-man marketing phenomenon, yet marketing doesn't begin to describe how he built customer bases in the multimillions rapidly for companies like Dropbox, LogMeIn and Eventbrite. So he coined the term "growth hacker".

Researchers from the University of Central Florida have created a phone battery that could last days with a few seconds of charge.

If one part of the brain is injured, the right hemisphere may overcompensate, leading to an increased focus on maths and the arts, a noted US psychologist says.

A long, four-hour drive convinced Zac McClelland to enter the Hyperloop challenge.

An Aussie genius is giving the paralysed the power of movement.

Apple is weighing an expansion into smart glasses, a risky but potentially lucrative area of wearable computing, according to people familiar with the matter.

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How many people would entrust their company's IT security to someone not yet out of high school?

New release puts Google into a niche but increasingly competitive market.

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Apple's move away from standard laptop ports will infuriate many, but the switch might be worth the pain in the long run.

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Scientists are mapping out the 10,000 genes that could make you a genius, but it may only be available for the wealthy.