New laws that mandate companies notify individuals about data breaches add to Privacy Commissioner's already-stacked caseload, but do not come with new funding.

Industry heads cite global factors for surge; see the currency reaching $US2000 by the end of the year.

Australians now have some comfort they will at least be notified if there's a massive leak of online personal data and many companies are expected to ramp up cyber security after federal parliament passed mandatory breach reporting laws.

Alphabet's self-driving car business, Waymo, sued Uber Technologies Inc. for stealing trade secrets in the development of autonomous cars, accelerating an already-heated rivalry over the nascent technology.

Pay TV bundling refuses to die, but the pressure is on to offer bite-sized pricing in the Netflix age.

Despite being on an unpopular platform, the original Splatoon garnered a decent fanbase. Now, the sequel seems aimed squarely at the esports set.

If you want to next hot trend in Australian tech, listen to American podcasts and wait for the clones.

The company has publicly released an artificial intelligence tool, called Perspective, that scans online content and rates how "toxic" it is based on ratings by thousands of people.

Apple may be considering a camera designed for authentication and augmented reality for its next high-end iPhone, according to reports.

Explosive charges at Uber are shining a bright light on what has for years been an unsettling reality in Silicon Valley: Women routinely confront sexism and harassment on the job.

Vinyl rebirth continues to foster products that look great and will impress your friends, but you can already get something that sounds amazing for the same price.

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Inna Braverman hopes the Australian coastline could soon be transformed by wave converters hanging off breakwaters, jetties, wharves and piers, alongside the rods and legs of hopeful fishermen.

Restricting the amount of greenery growing beside the state's waterways will have a detrimental effect on the environment while failing to meet its goal of reducing bushfire threats, top waterway ecosystem scientists have warned.

Sony's internal goal to sell 1 million of the headsets in its first six months looks like almost certainly being surpassed.

New phone's launch was a flashy event, playing all the old crowd favourites but with a few new tunes as well.

Intel has been king of the CPU market for over half a decade, however AMD looks set to reignite the CPU wars with a brand-new product.

Last year's Razer Blade Stealth was determined to match or beat Apple's 12-inch MacBook at every turn, and it succeeded. Now the gap has widened even further.

The first security camera to tie into Apple's smart home ecosystem, D-Link's Omna 180 Cam HD makes it easy to keep an eye on things while you're out and about.

HMD Global's newly revitalised Nokia phone business went back to the future on Sunday, re-introducing a brightly coloured version of the classic 3310, once the world's most popular phone. But there's a catch.

Researchers have identified genetic clues which could reveal a person's risk of going blind.

Huawei has thrown every possible feature at the P10, and in a word its gorgeous.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony has unveiled the Xperia XZ Premium, a monster of a phone that seems designed purely to fit as many high-end specs as possible into a single handset.

SpaceX said Monday that it will fly two private citizens around the moon in its Crew Dragon spacecraft next year.

Offering a realistic and incredibly deep system of melee combat, For Honor has the guts of the most complex of fighting games, but crammed inside the frame of a third-person action experience and skinned with a variety of ancient cultures.