Just two months into its life as a public company, Snap's celebration may already be ending.

For a guy who just lost about a quarter of his net worth, Snap co-founder Evan Spiegel exuded confidence on his first earnings conference call, explaining away the company's shortcomings and even throwing shade at his bigger — and far more successful — social media rival, Facebook.

When it arrived for Wii U in 2014, Mario Kart 8 was arguably the best, most full-featured entry in the beloved series. With the release of this new Deluxe version, there's no longer room for argument.

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Australians are unhappy with their broadband and they're not afraid to speak up, with a 33 per cent leap in complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman as the National Broadband Network works to bed down new technologies.

Do you ever wonder what tomorrow holds? Some people are pretty convinced that the future will be filled with flying cars and jetpacks and robot butlers. But here in the year 2017, I'm not so sure anymore.

​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.

It's getting cold outside, and if you're tired of pulling off your mittens to use the phone, then touchscreen gloves are the answer to keeping your fingers warm while being able to type and scroll and swipe.

I had a request from a reader recently which was interesting on several counts. First, she lives overseas but is a regular reader anyway, second, she has a four-year-old daughter with more frequent flyer points than I have, and third, why is it so damn hard to buy decent headphones for four-year-olds?

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More Australians stuck in mobile blackspots will be able to make voice calls over WiFi as Apple's iPhone joins Samsung's Galaxy smartphones in supporting VoWiFi on Telstra.

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.

Bitcoin hit a record high overnight on the creation of new tokens to raise funding for start-ups using blockchain technology.

When Snapchat unveiled Discover, a place in the messaging app where media companies can publish original stories, one of the publishers that jumped to get onto the platform was the website Mashable.

One in five Australians have been the victim of so-called revenge porn, with indigenous and disabled people the most common targets.

The US Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators.

Canberra company Skoolbo launched a new television program called Preschool Play in Singapore last month.

If you've received an invitation to join a shared Google Doc that you weren't expecting, you might want to steer clear of it. It's probably a phishing scam that could compromise your account.

​Facebook is nearly doubling the number of workers it employs to monitor Facebook Live video feeds, in an attempt to catch violent streams before they spread across the network.

Facebook's main social network is still driving sales growth, even as executives seek to temper investor exuberance.