After years of testing this stuff, long before it was good enough, we tell you what to look for and what to avoid.

Muffling aircraft noise during flight is important – but so is the carry-on luggage limit.

Several current and former Google employees are publicly criticising an employee-written memo that suggested the lower numbers of women in the tech industry are due to biological differences, a view that sparked outrage at the internet giant and inflamed tensions over sexual harassment and discrimination in Silicon Valley.

Despite never letting you interact with another human, Tacoma is an almost unrivalled success when it comes to emotional storytelling and facilitating a true feeling of empathy for characters in games.

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When will Aussies retire their home phone? Maybe when the mobile networks deliver on their promises.

LinkedIn thinks young professionals will want to yea-or-nay their way to a new mentor. They also seem to think this service won't appeal to creeps.

Titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", the male author wrote that women don't make up 50 per cent of the company's tech and leadership positions not because of sexism but because of differences in their preferences and abilities.

Google drones may reach further with CASA approval.

Information about what you do online, down to every single URL, can likely be purchased on the web by anyone who wants it.

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Digital hipsters will tell you that optical discs are already dead, but Ultra HD streaming on a Friday night is still a pipe dream for many Australians.

A British security researcher, who became an internet hero after he was credited with stopping a malicious software attack earlier this year, has been arrested at the Las Vegas airport and charged in connection with a separate attack.

When an NBN connection fails and providers won't reconnect an old broadband service, customers can be left in limbo for months. But while ACMA says it's an issue for the ACCC to handle, the ACCC points the finger at telcos.

Sony's MDR-1000X headphones have finally usurped Bose as the king of noise-cancelling, but are they worth the hefty price tag?

The Henn Na hotel -- situated in Urayasu, on Tokyo's outskirts -- markets itself as an almost entirely robot-run establishment.

Sony's latest LED-lit TV is the best of its kind, and offers a unique 4K HDR experience compared to the OLED models that have become standard.

Apple sold just more than 41 million iPhones in the June quarter, and forecasts a stronger-than-expected September quarter boosted by new iPhones that it will release later this year.

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In another blow to NBN's reputation, Vodafone is using NBN installation disasters as a marketing tool to promote its upcoming home broadband service with 4G LTE failover.

Snap shares fell Monday after some inside holders got their first opportunity to sell since the March initial public offering.