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Take away the misleading statements in NBN Co's latest blog, add some important missing information, and it becomes clear that FTTP is now cheaper to roll out than ever.

It's likely that this month marks exactly thirty years since Nintendo's very first home video game console launched in Australia, and while you might think you could confirm that by asking the company itself or with a simple Google search, it's not that easy.

The HP Sprocket is about the size of a deck of cards, and can print photographs that are 5cm by 7.6cm, using purpose-built 'Zink' paper. The clever trick is there is no ink involved: the printer uses thermographic technology to create the images, making the unit clean and quiet to operate.

A hoax message warning Facebook Messenger users not to accept friend requests from a "hacker" named Jayden K Smith has begun to circulate across the world, prompting confusion and an avalanche of memes.

US smart home giant Nest launches in Australia today, minus its flagship product and ignoring local retail heavyweights in favour of a unique online partner.

Australia's broken NBN dispute resolution process is cutting off homes for months, trapping owners in bureaucratic limbo where no-one will take responsibility for reconnecting their services.

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Australian broadcast television is sitting on a demographic time bomb as it continues to lose young viewers at an accelerating rate.

NBN Co has reached the halfway mark of its network roll out early, thanks to a reduction in the total number of premises that will be connected by 2020.

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As the NBN rollout reaches the halfway mark, Telstra retains the lion's share of home broadband users who remain loyal even though they're some of the country's least satisfied customers.

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.