Amazon's annual Prime Day is turning into one of the biggest shopping events of the US shopping calendar — but the long term benefit to the Amazon "ecosystem" is greater than any single day sales spike.

Microsoft has started the process of laying off thousands of employees, cuts that fall largely on the technology giant's sales force.

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Initial fervour may have dissipated, yet arguably neither the cultural significance nor the core popularity (once the hype was over) of the game has waned.

Hijacking the servers of a company which makes a popular accounting program, hackers sent false software updates to around a million computers, which kicked off the massive worldwide spread of 'NotPetya' last week. Experts now believe the apparent mass ransom attempt was merely a cover for something more nefarious, and Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to untangle it.

The deep web and its inner recess, the dark web — those less well-trodden parts of the internet beyond the reach of Google and Bing — are not for the faint-hearted or untrained. With the right tools, however, there's little to fear and plenty to discover.

Things change when a spaceship comes to town. Especially one built by Apple.

More 'disrupters' quit as public service takeover of DTA continues.

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An interactive choose-your-own-adventure superhero, Sphero's Spider-man has mad skills but perhaps lacks staying power.

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One measure of the power of Amazon 's vision is how quickly its rivals are racing to copy it; both Apple and Google have their own takes on the Echo Show. But Amazon's device is well on the way to becoming the operating system for suburbia.

In 2009, Gary Olhoeft walked into a department store to buy some DVDs. He walked out with his whole body twitching and convulsing.

The upheaval over sexual harassment in the technology start-up industry mushroomed this week, with the resignation of a prominent Silicon Valley investor who said he had been "a creep" and more women saying they would come forward to talk about their experiences.

This beautifully and confidently-executed trio of remastered classics brings the manic Sony mascot back to our screens in style.

A confronting report shows that a vendor on the dark web can pull up the full Medicare card details of any Australian on request — and is selling them for around $30 each — indicating a security hole somewhere in the health system.

Apple is working on a feature that will let you unlock your iPhone using your face instead of a fingerprint.

Fitbit, months away from the debut of its smartwatch, has lost several people working on the project and fallen behind on its app store, putting in peril the company's most important product in years.

Wherever you roam in the world the social media giant wants to ensure you can always find a WiFi hotspot, and that Facebook can always find you.

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The throwback to the incredibly popular console was announced last week, but initial pre-orders have already been and gone. It seems likely that, once again, most people who want one of these things will be disappointed.

​Mini autonomous police cars paired with companion drones and facial recognition technology will begin patrolling the streets of Dubai by the end of the year to help the city identify and track down criminal suspects.

Australia's cyber intelligence agency will be given the power to launch offensive operations to shut down foreign criminal networks, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced.