It's a man's world in Silicon Valley, where stereotypes reign.

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Inescapable, insecure and irresistibly convenient, email provides an almost uncomfortably intimate view into the historical record.

In 1999, Bill Gates made 15 predictions about the future that seemed a little outrageous at the time.

Anyone planning a trip to Japan over the next couple of years, take note: the VR Zone at Shinjuku is officially open now. And while that means you can see people lose their minds at VR horror experiences, it also means you'll be able to peg bananas and green shells at people in VR.

Google emerged as the victor in its latest legal battle in Europe on Wednesday, after a French court said the technology behemoth did not have to pay $US1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in back taxes.

Sony's smallest Bluetooth speaker is nine centimetres tall and 7.5 centimetres in diameter, and you'll have trouble believing how good it is.

Rather than blindly buying off the plan, Australians can now take a virtual walk through their new homes while they're still on the drawing board.

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It's hard to take NBN's "Ready For Service" numbers seriously when you keep hearing about connection horror stories and the appalling lack of accountability.

Mechanical and robotic exoskeletons hold considerable promise, both as aids to the disabled and machines to increase the lifting power of worked in heavy industry, but so far the reality has lagged considerably behind the dream.

The latest expansion of The Elder Scrolls Online, which takes players back to the strange land of Vvardenfell last seen in The Elder Scrolls III, is a great showpiece for how far the MMO has come since 2014. But it also exemplifies the core duality ESO still suffers from.

After what Facebook declared were 'promising tests' in Australia and Thailand, the company is now about to expand its Messenger ads beta push more broadly.

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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.