Technology News

When you think of virtual reality, you think of fancy headsets used for gaming and entertainment, but what if the technology could be applied to make life decisions, such as building a house, easier?

A high-speed internet service built by graziers in north Queensland is finally switched on after a minor hold-up.

A young entrepreneur is making the most out of Adelaide's annual Tour Down Under-inspired cycling craze by using software to connect training bikes to screens.

The recent release of the latest Star Wars move has sparked an unexpected controversy, with the digital resurrection of an actor who died in 1994.

Construction of the powerful Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, which is being built to look back through billions of years of the universe's history, is on the "home straight".

A drone using LiDAR technology is being used to map out a weed which is threatening crocodile nesting areas in the Kimberley.

The use of technology in primary school classrooms is a divisive issue among parents and teachers, so are there any proven benefits of children using devices such as tablets?

Almost a third of all people to report having their identity stolen last year are over the age of 55, according to figures from the Federal Government's Scamwatch website.

It started off with a series of suspicious emails and ended in a catastrophic con that saw scammers gain access to union officials' phones, private social media accounts and even their bank accounts.

More than 3,000 government-linked email accounts have been compromised as part of what is believed to be the largest hacking attack ever — but what does that actually mean? And has your account been affected?

Apollo astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, is remembered as a "patriot and pioneer" following the 82-year-old's death on Tuesday (AEDT).

Private email accounts belonging to high-profile politicians and senior Defence officials are among the 1 billion victims of the massive Yahoo data breach. Who were the hackers and how serious was the attack?

Thousands of Australian government officials, including high-profile politicians, senior Defence officials and ambassadors posted overseas, are among the 1 billion victims of the Yahoo data breach, according a secret dataset obtained by the ABC.

Asia forced to deal with a growing mountain of discarded smartphones and other electronics, amid environmental fears.

SpaceX carries out its first mission since a fiery explosion destroyed one of its rockets in September last year, launching a Falcon 9 rocket and successfully landing it on a platform in the Pacific Ocean.

Just when you thought 2017 was safe, the creators of Monopoly are putting the board game's iconic tokens to public vote. And Ben Pobjie, for one, will not suffer the indignity of going to Mayfair in a bunny slipper, Ben Pobjie writes.

Using samples collected by the Apollo 14 moon mission, scientists estimate the Moon is much older than previously thought and likely formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.

A small private museum in Perth allows video game enthusiasts to rediscover the delight of early consoles as well as learn how the keyboard entertainment industry started.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image two gas-rich spiral galaxies that approached each other too closely and are destructively merging into one.

The website of Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is briefly targeted by a group of hackers, and replaced with an appeal to "stop killing people in Syria".

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile will be modified to allow it to search for potentially habitable planets in the nearest star system to Earth.

Feeling a million miles away from the digital world of your gamer kids? It's time to start talking with them about it. Here's how.

Apple pulled the wraps off the iPhone 7 this morning and announced it's ditching the headphone jack. Is this the beginning of the end for wired headphones?

It's been a decade since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. How does the original device stack up against today's technology and how much has it changed our lives in a decade?

Australian tech darling Atlassian announces it will acquire collaboration service Trello, in a deal worth $US425 million ($579 million).