Uber Technologies president Jeff Jones is quitting after less than a year because of multiple controversies engulfing the ride-hailing company, Recode reported.

As a company, Reddit has shown itself to be either ambivalent or complicit in abuse on the site, but users are fed up.

The capital may be returning to its roots – with a modern twist - thanks to about two dozen technology start-ups.

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Dokuchaev's rare achievement in being wanted by both the US and Russian authorities sheds light on what is widely said in the West to be "state-sponsored Russian hacking".

The Galaxy S8 to be unveiled later this month will blend fingerprint, iris and facial detection to verify users accessing mobile services.

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After two months without aircon, the only thing that stood between my family and a decent night's sleep was a smart wall switch which insisted on playing dumb – but in the end the switch wasn't to blame.

The explosive week in the tech world continues as a video emerges on social media that shows an iPhone 6 Plus bursting into a cloud of smoke.

The $350 smart jean jacket offers a glimpse of what smart fabrics can do and of the evolution of the wearables market.

As the popularity of live streaming of video game playing grows, so to does the health risks.

Dozens of Twitter accounts were hacked Wednesday in an apparent large-scale cyber-attack.

• BREAKING

The US government has revealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014.

Too tired to mop the floor? No problem. There's a robot for that.

So, after the Wikileaks dump earlier this month of a portion of the CIA playbook for cracking digital comms, it turns out that agencies like the CIA and MI5 do, in fact, conduct spying, and that they will use pervasive technology such as smart phones and internet-connected smart devices to achieve their ends.

Over three weeks, we tested Leica's new M10 digital rangefinder, valued at $9700, and two things became clear at the end of this period.

The move by the country's authorities comes as technology companies face increasing scrutiny worldwide over how they police online material.

​Australia continues to fall behind most of the developed world when it comes to home broadband internet speeds.

An airline passenger has spoken of her horror when her battery-operated headphones exploded on her face mid-flight.

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Optus' heavy-handed NBN migration tactics highlight how far telco call centres are prepared to bend the truth.

• EXCLUSIVE

Phones and broadband services are being cut as part of Optus' rush to shut down its HFC cable network in NBN-ready areas.