Samsung made waves in the tech world when it bought Viv, a digital assistant made by Siri's creators. So why is it using Bixby in its current phones?

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Periodically deleting and reinstalling Tinder could very well have replaced the "watching Titanic and eating ice-cream" as my generation's most (in)effective breakup remedy.

Nathan Drake's exploits may have come to a close but the series continues with a smaller-scale adventure that looks and plays a lot like last year's excellent, beautiful blockbuster, but offers a brand new story and a refreshing change of perspective.

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If your home is a wireless warzone then automatically shifting gadgets between bands, in search of the best performance, might create as many problems as it solves.

Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports.

Some fans thought a new trailer for an Australian-themed map in the game Overwatch might be considered insensitive to indigenous communities, but the game's director was more concerned about another cultural error.

Samsung has finally unveiled the Note8, successor to the notoriously-explodable Note7. We've already taken a look at its specs, pricing and Australian availability, but how does it stack up against Apple's iPhone 7 Plus?

At first glance, the Note 8 seems to put Samsung firmly on the road to redemption. After the Note7 recall last year, this is the first viable model of its premium phone since 2015. I had a chance to spend some time with the new phone at its unveiling event in New York, and, here are my initial impressions.

As Samsung launches its new consumer-focused Galaxy Note8 in New York, the company is in conversation with Australian aviation about updating any remaining warnings about its previous Note7 phones.

In a beige concrete office block in Melbourne's inner-city, behind locked doors to which only eight people have access, a scientist sits watching two fighter jets marking a path towards their target - Sydney Harbour.

There are some vexing problems with soft dome tweeters, some hard to believe. I'll get to that in a moment but first - what is a soft dome tweeter?

The company has put off any notion of an Apple-branded autonomous vehicle and is instead working on the underlying technology that allows a car to drive itself.

Detroit is once again becoming the centre of the US automobile industry – only this time without anyone behind the wheel.

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With the nationwide rollout half over, NBN and its cohorts finally concede they need to do more to help Australians trapped in broadband hell.

A solid five months after Samsung announced it, the Bixby voice assistant is finally available in Australia.

At the height of the day's solar eclipse in New York, Google finally revealed the name of its latest Android operating system — in honour of another dark disc: the Oreo.

So-called 'simpler' high-end phone is beautiful and well-made, but its lack of features means it falls short of being essential.

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It's been a dry winter, but the spring downpours are set to trigger the seasonal ADSL slowdown as Telstra's pits flood – drowning the country's ageing copper network.

Time is running out to put a ban in place against the development of killer robots, warns an open letter signed by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies, including Elon Musk.