When Matt Dooley refused to leave a Telstra store after months of battling with the telco, the last people he might have expected to fix his problem were the police called to remove him from the store.

WhatsApp suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed.

SPONSORED CONTENT Aussie Star Wars fans discover a new virtual reality experience for the release of the latest blockbuster.

It's not so easy to do what's good for your health.

Apple's chief executive has apologised to customers for not being clear that the company slows down phones with ageing batteries.

In years past, demand for Apple's latest flagship phone was critical to the company's results over the holiday shopping quarter. Nowadays, not so much.

The cybersecurity nightmares of 2017 highlight the need to protect yourself. Here are some resolutions for living a safer digital life this new year.

Dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, a pair of newly-disclosed processor flaws are among the worst CPU security bugs ever found.

Intel Corp has said that most of the processors running the world's computers and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to attack. Here's what you need to know.

Without maths the option to enter into a STEM degree is removed.

The NBN has been caught photoshopping one of their ads to appeal to gamers, but it has instead backfired.

Music streaming company Spotify has confidentially filed to go public - moving forward with an unusual plan to list its shares directly on the New York Stock Exchange - even as it faces a new $US1.6 billion ($2 billion) lawsuit alleging copyright infringement.

This style of technology isn't new, but the method of its use - and the kinds of people wielding it - is.

Licensee of songs from Tom Petty, The Doors and many more is seeking damages in a new lawsuit.

Aussie high-school dropout and tech entrepreneur Ben Pasternak has sold his Monkey video chat app to HOLLA to invest time in a new project.

As we leave behind the triumphs and disappointments of 2017, it's clear we have another absolutely packed year ahead of us.

Macquarie Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2017, and it's sent plenty of people scrambling to the Google search bar.

The outspoken CEO, always looking out for the next trend, rates small drones but thinks all smart TVs are crap.

From radiation-blocking undies to robot air-fresheners, this year's CES was more 'no' than 'whoa'.

Tech entrepreneur Ally Watson has turned her passion for teaching coding to girls into a full-time business.

Fast radio bursts beaming from beyond our galaxy, are astonishingly powerful, and nobody knows what – or who – is making them.

The water could be used for drinking and potentially conversion into oxygen to breathe, scientists believe.

The update, which prioritises branded content, has been slammed on social media.

​Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most.

Stop sucking us into a distraction vortex, fix your own darn security and a few other prescriptions from CES for getting the gadget industry back on track.