Facebook Inc acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion.

Pope Francis, an outspoken champion of science and technology, gave his own TED talk Tuesday night, speaking from the Vatican with a three-part message calling for a "revolution of tenderness" and warning those in power to act responsibly or "your power will ruin you."

Thanks to automation a life of potential leisure beckons – whether we like it or not.

A free, third-party service with access to your email is almost certainly mining your data for something. It would be silly to assume otherwise.

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Instagram is now changing the experience of using the service at a speed that would ordinarily feel reckless for a network of its size.

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The tech world just witnessed a robbery. The heist was so brazen that you kind of had to admire it.

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Regional Australians may eventually get a taste of gigabit broadband as NBN pushes Fixed Wireless to the limit.

A top level investigation into cyber crime has identified nearly 9000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals in Asia.

The ride-hailing company has laid out some aggressive plans to get closer to its first flight.

Federal agencies are embracing digital records management and helping to achieve significant savings, according to the National Archives of Australia.

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Intervention by Australia's consumer watchdog has failed to break a stand-off between NBN, Telstra and retailers leaving homes without broadband for months.

As TPG becomes a fourth major provider, the landscape has never been better for consumers who are enjoying the competition-driven cheaper pricing.

For companies that rely on powerful gatekeepers like Google and Apple for their livelihood, an Amazon alternative for selling subscriptions could be a breath of fresh air.

The military of a G7 nation has purchased a drone gun or drone jammer made by a jointly Australian and US-owned company.

San Francisco: Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple's headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker.

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It's a million miles from Samsung's Galaxy S8 or Apple's iPhone 7, but Telstra's EasyCall 4 might be the dumb phone that you've been looking for.

The internet giant's big profits demonstrate yet again that the billboard space accompanying Google queries is the web's most valuable real estate for advertisements.

Apple is bringing into its ranks two experts in the demanding, expensive field of satellite design and operation.

Liz Kaelin is the human face of how the crackdown on 457 visas is hurting Australian technology entrepreneurs.