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Local movie fans will no longer receive iTunes or Google Play download codes when buying Marvel, Pixar and Dreamworks movies on disc, as The Walt Disney Company abandons its Digital Copy Plus service in Australia and New Zealand.

A Syrian refugee whose image showed up in fake news reports linking him to terrorism lost a closely watched case in Germany that sought to prevent Facebook from allowing users to repost the picture.

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The CIA can crack and take control of iPhones, smart TVs and connected cars worldwide, WikiLeaks alleges.

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Designed to slide under your television rather than hang on the wall, Sonos' new Playbase soundbar will be a good fit for many lounge rooms chasing better sound.

This reinvention of Zelda is possibly the greatest the series has produced to date, and it's also one of the most fun and interesting open-world games around.

The Silicon Valley tech firm has started rolling out a new warning label for news stories that are 'disputed' by a third-party fact checker.

Pixel phone may be experiencing some trouble on the sales front after missing an opportunity to capitalise on competitors' missteps.

Esports company ESL has announced that the incredibly popular Intel Extreme Masters series will be making a stop in Australia for the very first time this year, with the first event in the annual global circuit to take place in Sydney.

After a euphoric public market debut, Snap shares dropped for the first time in three days after analysts began weighing in with their thoughts on the company's true valuation.

The blockchain – the buzzy, bewildering technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin – is starting to be applied to real-world problems with a speed and security not currently possible.

Google has a long history of introducing, then forgetting about, and finally officially killing off its products. Here are the 10 most missed.

The very first investor in what would become Snap was an Australian living in the US, whose initial $641,000 on behalf of his firm Lightspeed eventually led to billions in gains.

Apple has temporarily stopped buying cobalt mined by hand in Congo, while it continues to deal with problems relating to child labour and harsh work conditions.

​The world's largest technology investor is preparing to ramp up his bet on the Trump economy.

While the biggest phone-makers of the world showed off the bells and whistles of new smartphones at MWC this week, it seems that users are more concerned with a more fundamental issue: battery life.

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At its current price, Snap makes its much bigger rival Facebook - not to mention internet stalwarts such as Google, Amazon and even Netflix - look like bargain-basement "value" stocks.

Amazon.com's cloud computing unit said that the outage that shook up a sizable part of the internet Tuesday was caused by human error.

Codies will be the engine room of the digital economy just as sparkies and plumbers and other tradies have been the engine room of the industrial economy.

Snap founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each added $2.1 billion to their fortunes in a single day after shares in their photo-sharing mobile app surged 44 per cent on their trading debut.