Eyeing off the latest smartphone while your current handset works fine? You aren't alone in Australia.

Newspapers and other media outlets are struggling to make money from their partnerships with tech giants like Facebook and Snapchat, raising concerns over their business models in a news landscape increasingly dominated by social media platforms.

Three men in Uppsala, Sweden, have been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman and streaming the assault live to a private Facebook group. Authorities are urging people with access to the images showing the assault to make them available to investigators.

Patrick Stobbs recently sat in a conference room playing songs from his smartphone, attempting to show how his startup, Jukedeck, is at the cutting edge of music. The tune sounded like the soundtrack to a 1980s video game. "This is where we were two years ago," he said, looking slightly embarrassed.

Former phone-maker's first product of the year will analyse your hair and tell if you're brushing it right.

The global space economy is worth more than $300 billion. How is Canberra cashing in?

Samsung finally disclosed what made its flagship smartphone explode last year.

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Your child is starting high school this year and will be making their own way home, so you're considering getting them their first smartphone. Or perhaps their friends have one and they've been begging you to join the club all summer.

Apple has filed a $US1 billion ($1.32 billion) lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm on Friday, days after the US government accused the chip-maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key semiconductors in mobile phones.

After a dramatic offseason, the 2017 Oceanic Pro League officially kicked off as the Chiefs took on the LG Dire Wolves.

A long-running battle over whether or not telcos should have to provide stored metadata to customers on request — which evolved over numerous appeals into a battle over which data should be considered personal — appears to have come to an unsatisfying end this week in Australia's Federal Court.

Home automation is slowly but surely becoming an affordable way to deliver more energy-efficient homes that offer better security, comfort and healthcare.

Chinese app Meitu has recently taken off in English-speaking countries, and your social feed may be filled with images of your friends' faces contorted into an anime style. But security researchers are warning the app is doing far more making your selfies cute.

This sequel repeats just about every mistake the original made, but in spite of that I fell in love with its sprawling world, goofy characters and thrilling aerial acrobatics all over again.

After a string of online security breaches, Australians are wary of storing their credit card details online and mistrust local retailers more than tech giants Apple and Google.

In the rush to collect all manner of information about customers, tensions are rising in Silicon Valley over whether such practices amount to surveillance that customers will ultimately find invasive.

Get three components right and you can get a great result even if all the other bits that make up the turntable are only average.

China's internet detox boot camps have drawn wide condemnation for abusive treatment of children that includes beatings and electroshock therapy, prompting the government to draft a law that would crack down on the camps' worst excesses.

Laptop bags are a tricky proposition, laptop backpacks even more so.