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Luminar founder Austin Russell.

The 22 year-old at the centre of the self-driving car craze

In the sixth grade, Austin Russell turned a Nintendo gaming handset into a mobile phone. At 15, he built a holographic keyboard. By 17, he'd filed for a patent. Now at 22, he's running a startup at the heart of Silicon Valley's latest technology mania.

It's estimated consumers' use of Wi-Fi at public places like stadiums and airports will drop to a third of all mobile ...

World without Wi-Fi looms as unlimited plans rise

The Wi-Fi icon - a dot with radio waves radiating outward - glows on nearly every internet-connected device, from the iPhone to thermostats to TVs. But it's starting to fade from the limelight.

Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes said the need to understand, adapt and be part of the new economy was critical.

Silence on ideas boom 'is sad'

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.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, left, and Anthony Levandowski.

Engineer is now Google's no.1 enemy

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Optus' new network will provide faster internet connection speeds to compatible handsets, which will release this year.

Optus switches on 4.5G mobile network

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.

Late last year, Eli Lilly shared disappointing results of a late-stage clinical trial of its experimental drug ...

Billions spent, a 99% failure rate and no 'magic bullet'

Despite a 99 per cent failure rate and a recent setback, Alzheimer's researchers are plowing ahead with hundreds of experiments - and a boost in US federal money - to try to crack a deadly disease that has flummoxed them for decades.

Young power couple: Co-founder and chief executive of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, and supermodel Miranda Kerr got engaged ...

Snapchat parent kicks off $3.9b IPO

Snap, maker of Snapchat, has file documents for its sharemarket float, the first social media IPO since Twitter three years ago. It could turn its boss Evan Spiegel and supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr into one of the world's richest young couples.