For a technology to crack the mainstream, there is an unspoken understanding: It shouldn't make the people who use it want to throw up.

We've all heard the warnings about passwords — use a variety of character types, make it random, use a password manager — but many of us, it seems, still aren't listening.

Facebook CEO denies that John Carmack, the coding legend behind games including Doom, brought secrets with him when he became the CTO of Oculus.

Federal government to unleash robo-assistants on the public in February.

For months there has been excitement among the cat cognoscenti about the Catterbox, described in a viral video as 'the world's first talking cat collar'.

Japanese researchers say they have successfully copied fingerprint data from a digital picture of a person flashing a two-fingered "V" or peace sign, raising questions about the potential theft of such information.

Clearly modelled after a grim nanny-state vision of Russia, 'Beholder' tasks players with balancing two opposing goals: run an apartment building as a respectable landlord who is liked by his tenants, and keep your government employers happy by constantly monitoring, reporting and spying on said tenants.

A new flow of compelling and creative player statistics have been published ahead of this year's Open and will be updated and released during the tournament.

After a 12-year-old US girl's death was broadcast on social media, police could do little to keep the disturbing footage from spreading online.

Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies returned to the skies on Saturday with a flawless delivery of communications satellites into orbit, its first flight since a September 1 fireball destroyed a rocket and its payload on a Florida launch pad.

Data on the phones consumers are searching for shows not even the most explosive of events in 2016 can completely thwart Samsung's efforts.

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Fetch TV owners can curl up in bed and use the TV in the bedroom to watch something they recorded in the lounge room, thanks to the latest firmware update.

The Nintendo Switch had its official coming out party over the weekend, as the world's press got its first chance to go hands on with the machine and put it through its paces.

Nintendo Co.'s new Switch gaming console is off to an underwhelming start.

As we start 2017, it's hard to see how household robots are going to fulfil the lofty predictions placed on them.

The social media giant already has your name, your friends and your photographs: now it might want your thoughts too.

Many people may be able to sample virtual reality just by using their phones with the right apps.

Apple could start offering original streaming video content on its Apple Music platform by the end of the year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Let others tremble at the thought that Donald Trump may go too far. Peter Thiel worries that Trump may not go far enough.