​Microsoft has turned up the heat on other technology giants by launching new image and video recognition products which could help it court businesses worried about running ads next to offensive content.

Human language is a wonderful thing. Talking computers, not so much.

The second generation HP Spectre x360 has dethroned Microsoft's Surface Book as the best convertible PC on the market. Just like the Surface, it's definitely a laptop first, but here tablet mode feels far more useful, rather than an optional extra.

Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?

For a tiny tabletop robot, ElliQ has a lot of opinions.

Technology giants are restructuring their tax affairs and for the first time ever counting local advertising revenue.

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

A Canadian company is making stands that not only isolate speakers but ensure that any movement resulting from Newton's third law does not move them off axis – pleasing the fundamentalists.

It's where inventions such as Bic pens for women go to die.

Fifteen ACT start-ups set to pitch ideas to hundreds of international investors.

More than a dozen start-ups backed by deep-pocketed industry figures along with big aerospace firms are taking on the dream of the flying car.

Online retail giants Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Alibaba say the federal government has severely underestimated the threat of rival foreign online retailers failing to comply with its planned GST changes, and consumers will be left worse off.

The teardrop-like shaped AeroMobil Flying Car is ready for pre-orders with first deliveries expected by 2020.

While it's early days for the technology, Zuckerberg says there are few boundaries for how it will evolve.

Science is making an important shift towards personalised, regenerative therapies.

Did you know that images of your home were being snapped from above?

Thanks to at least two research efforts around the world, glasses-free 3D entertainment might finally be upon us.

Google DeepMind's AI software will take on top-ranked Chinese player Ke Jie at Go in May in a formal re-match between man and machine.

Women are lamentably unrepresented in the innovation ecosystem at the heart of the Prime Minister's ideas boom.

First fact-checking came to Facebook. Now it's coming to Google.

​Even as Uber talks up its determination to treat drivers more humanely, it is engaged in a behind-the-scenes experiment in behavioural science to manipulate them in the service of its corporate growth – an effort whose dimensions became evident in interviews with several dozen current and former Uber officials, drivers and social scientists, as well as a review of behavioural research.

What has Stockholm ever done for us? When the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship gets its first students in the second half of this year, there will be a new answer to the question (aside from IKEA).

HTC is banking on Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi film to lure the broader public towards virtual reality experiences.

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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.