![The B.One Hub is a smart home universal translator.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/6/t/j/3/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gz6sss.png/1508801568593.jpg)
![The B.One Hub is a smart home universal translator.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/6/t/j/3/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gz6sss.png/1508801568593.jpg)
Protecting NBN from private sector 'would cost households'
![AFR National Energy Summit 2017,?Sofitel Hotel, Sydney From left:? Rod Sims, ACCC at the?Changing electricity demand ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/x/9/d/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz6hbb.png/1508821731214.jpg)
Protecting the National Broadband Network from private sector competition would be a "disastrous" move that would inflict higher internet costs on households, according to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims.
The NBN was engineered to fail
![The NBN had so much promise.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/1/z/l/8/image.related.landscape.120x80.p4ywly.png/1508801694074.jpg)
Who’s to blame for the omnishambles of the NBN? Pretty much everyone.
Latest South Park game bigger, longer and uncensored
![The latest game from the South Park creators has, this time, arrived in Australia without being censored.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/3/5/0/3/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz6af0.png/1508729732906.jpg)
Like its 2014 predecessor, The Fractured But Whole is a game with astonishingly high production values, perfectly matching the quality of the TV show's writing, performances and knack for politically incorrect social commentary.
New Windows features you might never use
![The new Windows update includes an augmented reality viewer to superimpose your virtual 3D objects onto your camera feed ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/6/7/g/f/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz66n8.png/1508764638592.jpg)
Microsoft has bet hard on augmented and virtual reality, which it collectively refers to as 'mixed reality' as it continues to shake off its old, fusty image.
Turnbull says the NBN was a mistake and may never make money
![Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faced a barrage of questions about the NBN on a visit to the CSR Viridian glass facility ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/6/3/6/x/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz63yo.png/1508755200955.jpg)
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says that, in hindsight, the National Broadband Network project was a mistake and blamed the former Labor government for setting up a new government company to deliver the mammoth infrastructure project.
PM reprimanded by security expert over encryption stance
![Raj Samani.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/4/y/i/h/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz4veh.png/1508812185948.jpg)
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been reprimanded by one of the world's most respected internet security professionals for his comments on encryption, and for his push to force tech companies to allow police access to encrypted communications, which critics say will not be possible to implement.
Atlassian on the brink of joining the $US10b club
![Co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar continue to own more than half of the company.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/e/7/4/6/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz4q7d.png/1508462132538.jpg)
The most prominent global technology company to have emerged from Australian shores is on the brink of another significant valuation milestone.
Hands on Sonos One smart speaker
![The new Sonos One brings Amazon and Google's smart assistants into your home without sacrificing on sound quality.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/4/k/k/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz4ke4.png/1508500641260.jpg)
While Amazon is yet to play its hand locally, it's not hard to get the chatty Alexa assistant running in Australia on Sonos' first smart speaker – with Google Assistant to come.
The Nokia 3310 is better left in the past
![Tiny and simple, the Nokia 3310 3G is tough to recommend for anything other than nostalgic appeal, even at $90.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/4/n/t/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz4miv.png/1508645320491.jpg)
I've been using the new Nokia 3310 3G as my primary phone for a full work week, and it's been like living in a localised time distortion field where I was in 2000 and everybody else was 17 years ahead.
Apple shares fall on 'anaemic appetite' for iPhone 8
![The iPhone 8 had a disappointing start: Are consumers just waiting for the iPhone X, or is there weakness overall?](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/y/o/q/5/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz4mau.png/1508451004504.jpg)
Shares of Apple and some of its suppliers fell on signs that demand for the new iPhone 8 models isn't as strong as anticipated while buyers await the release of the higher-end iPhone X.
A heap of great Australian games for a dollar
![Armello is one of Australia's more successful recent games.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/0/f/d/5/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz3vxz.png/1508399254512.jpg)
Humble Bundle offers bundles that donate to charity every other fortnight. And its latest bundle is worthy of some attention, because it's all Australian.
IBM soars as five-year crisis is coming to an end
![Fourth-quarter revenue is projected to be $US22 billion to $US22.1 billion, which will represent as much as a 1.5 per ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/d/k/l/v/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz3r0a.png/1508361860974.jpg)
After more than five years of declining sales, IBM says it will finally show investors it can grow again.
Is Netflix 'binge racing' squeezing the joy out of watching television?
![There's no prize for being first to rush through an entire season of Netflix's blockbusters like <I>Stranger Things</i>.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/3/5/6/8/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz34jg.png/1508330533890.jpg)
We're expected to rush through an entire season in one night like it's a badge of honour.
Domino's customers targeted by scammers as personal data leaks
![Customers who ordered pizza online appear to have had their details leaked to scammers.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/u/i/d/k/a/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz2z3i.png/1508330487564.jpg)
Domino's customers left steaming after company fails to disclose data leak.
Master of dragons' genetic code scoops nation's top science prize
![Professor Jenny Graves with bearded dragons she named Malcolm and Bill for the announcement she was awarded the Prime ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/3/b/d/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz38ny.png/1508478409954.jpg)
The colours of budgerigars spurred our top science prize winner to be a geneticist.
Learning to write code for a robotic Lego cat
![The app walks you through a few pre-set robot designs, but you can make and code whatever you like.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/2/8/e/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz3807.png/1508295931788.jpg)
Blending the familiar fun of plastic, colourful bricks with a surprisingly complicated robot-building kit and code-writing primer, Lego Boost is part educational tool and part amazingly geeky high-tech toy.
How Ukraine became a lab for Russia's cyberwar hackers
![A cyberattack that cut electricity to nearly 250,000 Ukrainians two days before Christmas in 2015 underlined the new ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/3/0/8/n/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz2dtx.png/1508586779868.jpg)
We were warned that hackers would make the leap beyond digital mayhem and cause real, physical damage. Now, in Ukraine, the scenario has come to life. Twice.
Excess data fees almost double as Aussies go mobile
![Australians chewed through 175,076 terabytes via mobile broadband in the three months ending June 30.](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/2/d/g/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz2d88.png/1508330751756.jpg)
Aussies were slugged with $259 million in excess mobile data charges in the last 12 months.
Revelation of cosmic secrets triggers a 'frenzy' of science
![A neutron star is the dense, collapsed core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. Two of them spiralling into ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20171024133754im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/z/1/u/g/i/image.related.landscape.120x80.gz1hmw.png/1508229497254.png)
The collision of two super-dense stars in a galaxy far, far away, has been detected by a remarkable collaborative effort.