What if you're putting yourself out there as a thought leader advising companies how to build brands on social media, but you tweet a lewd suggestion to a reporter whose story you don't like? Nothing much good, as Ryan Holmes knows.

Imaginations set racing by video of The Hum Rider that raises above traffic at the press of a button.

Sydneysiders expressed more joy over three days of rain this week than they did during the February heat wave.

Eddy, a robot measuring less than 30cm tall, could become the industry standard for commercial and amateur farmers who want to grow pesticide-free, water-efficient crops via hydraponics.

With electric cars a growing reality on the ground, a small Aussie tech company has joined the global race to take the technology to the skies in electric-powered planes.

The new technology could be used in a wide range of scientific fields.

Policymakers should stop sticking their heads in the sand and ignore the fact that "there are going to be a massive amount of jobs destroyed" from the digital revolution, says Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Australia's most successful tech company, Atlassian.

Vicinty Centres is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company's non-executive directors, Wai Tang.

Traditional automotive manufacturers, including Audi, Ford, GM, VW, Toyota & and Nissan all expect self-driving, or autonomous cars to be on the market between 2019 and 2021. What could possibly go wrong?

No cash to pay for your drinks at a music festival? No problem, if you're wearing a pair of sunglasses with a contactless payment device attached.

New compression algorithm crunches TV shows on a shot-by-shot basis, meaning visually simpler scenes will require less data.

Inna Braverman hopes the Australian coastline could soon be transformed by wave converters hanging off breakwaters, jetties, wharves and piers, alongside the rods and legs of hopeful fishermen.

If you want to know the next hot trend in Australian tech, listen to American podcasts and wait for the clones.

Macquarie Park in Sydney is the first suburb getting access to Optus' new 4.5G network, which is capable of 1.03Gbps maximum theoretical download speeds.

Video shows researchers delivering around 1900 watts of energy throughout a room thanks to a magnetic field.

Five years after graduating from medicine in Sydney, Matt Schiller is operating in Silicon Valley. 

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Vinyl rebirth continues to foster products that look great and will impress your friends, but you can already get something that sounds amazing for the same price.

Nuheara's earbuds were designed to cancel outside noise while listening to music, but the company is now exploring how they might help people distinguish voices in noisy environments as well.

Uber Technologies is speeding ahead with plans for flying cars, which could zoom among urban centers such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Oakland, by hiring a NASA veteran who has presented research about the possibilities.

How to build a robot in lounge room.

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

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

While emojis look odd in formal writing - think important emails, and online articles like this one - they are used by almost everyone in text messages and on social media.

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.

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