The broadest measure of the economy – gross domestic product – shows the US is in free fall. | Continue reading
Australia is currently being hit with a massive cyber attack by a “sophisticated, state-based cyber actor”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says. | Continue reading
A Facebook post has led to a couple being mistakenly fined more than $3300 by police. | Continue reading
As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. | Continue reading
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A Chinese government-backed property giant has secretly raided in bulk Australia’s supplies of masks, hand sanitiser, antibacterial wipes and essential medical supplies and shipped them back to China. | Continue reading
A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month. | Continue reading
A Canadian company has claimed it’s found the cure for the deadly coronavirus. | Continue reading
The secrets of Australia’s unique biodiversity and the collected history of our national library are among the digital treasures being kept in a vault 250 metres underground in an abandoned Norwegian coal mine. | Continue reading
A new method for generating electricity means that pretty soon you may never have to charge your phone again. | Continue reading
THE Godfather is considered one of the greatest movies ever made and tells the tale of a New York crime boss handing over control of his empire to his son. | Continue reading
EVER wondered what Vladimir Putin is up to infiltrating the US elections? Surprisingly, there is an answer to that. | Continue reading
A simple map on iPhones has dragged tech giant Apple into an international diplomatic incident. | Continue reading
It appears Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has brought bad luck with him on his trip to Australia as several of the company’s critical services go out for the second day in a row. | Continue reading
A centrefold graphic recently flourished intimate details of a Chinese bomber carrying a stark new weapon. State-controlled media has since gone into cover-up mode. But military analysts think Beijing may have been caught with its pants down. | Continue reading
The idea of killer robots is terrible enough. But what happens when their cold lethality is added to the volatile political and religious mix of the Middle East? It’s a massacre in the making. | Continue reading
A man accused of ripping off the head of a kookaburra at a pub has reportedly fled the country, after facing possible animal cruelty charges and death threats. | Continue reading
How does one think the unthinkable? What could lead to war in Asia? Who would win? Is there even such a thing as winning? | Continue reading
The iPhone 11 Pro is the first Apple smartphone to feature a rear triple-camera array, and it’s been polarising to say the least. | Continue reading
The number of alien, repeating radio blasts astronomers have detected in deep space has just tripled. | Continue reading
Teenager Riley Horner says her life is like a movie after a freak accident has left her feeling “scared” every day of her life. | Continue reading
Asia has just taken a giant leap towards disaster: The combat jets of four nations have squared off above a disputed island. Vietnam is challenging an aggressive Chinese spy ship. And the Philippines has appealed to the US for protection. | Continue reading
IF you want to work in Hollywood and Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy or Stacey Snider come calling, you pick up the phone. | Continue reading
Atlassian says it will no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks” who deliver results for the company but make life hell for their co-workers as part of a complete overhaul of how the tech firm conducts performance reviews. | Continue reading
Almost a dozen towns across regional New South Wales and southern Queensland are staring down the battle of a crisis that’s been dubbed “day zero”. | Continue reading
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Younger generations seem to be developing horns in the back of their skulls due to the extended use of technology like smartphones and tablets. | Continue reading
Aussies applying for a US visa will be subjected to a stressful and invasive new vetting process. | Continue reading
Victoria Police has shown off its new silent protector. | Continue reading
A British man visiting his American girlfriend on a three-month holiday of a lifetime was locked in a cell for 24 hours and banned from the US for life after border officials found a text on his phone that read: “I am moving to be near you.” | Continue reading
PREDICTING the future may sound like an impossible task but research has found some ordinary individuals known as “superforecasters” are better at it than others. | Continue reading
Virgin Australia has pushed back delivery of the first of its troubled Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft to 2025. | Continue reading
Harsh new penalties for social media companies that broadcast horrific terrorist attacks have cleared federal parliament, with Labor supporting new laws but vowing to revise them if they win the next election. | Continue reading
Traces of a buried Viking ship have been detected in a burial site in the Vestfold county in Norway. | Continue reading
When Beau Jessup came up with an idea to help Chinese families name their babies, even she thought it was a bit far-fetched. | Continue reading
IT WAS our first known interstellar visitor when it was detected flashing past the Sun in October last year. Dubbed ‘Oumuamua’ — Hawaiian for messenger — it was quickly determined to be not of this solar system. | Continue reading
JENNIFER Ringley was the first person to broadcast her life online. | Continue reading
First it was the Nokia 3310 that made a comeback and now another favourite phone from yesteryear is set to re-enter our lives. | Continue reading
A Chinese man is now bedridden for life after he sold his right kidney as a teenager to the black market to buy the latest Apple products. | Continue reading
It was the story that gripped the world: twelve boys from a Thai soccer team and their coach were trapped in a flooded cave so deep under ground a rescue was almost impossible. | Continue reading
How many times have you wished you could eavesdrop on a conversation? | Continue reading
Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive. | Continue reading
“Drilling soldiers and war preparations are the fundamental jobs and work focus of our military, and at no time should we allow any slack in these areas”. That's the commitment given by China’s military — the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — in its New Year’s Day message. | Continue reading
Drivers who use their phones on Sydney roads may now be caught out without even realising it as new mobile detection cameras get up and running in parts of the city. | Continue reading
Charismatic, personable, strong and highly successful, Sheryl Sandberg has been a shining light for women in business, in particular in the male dominated world of Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
New images have emerged of the wreckage found deep in the Atlantic of an Argentine submarine that vanished a year ago with 44 crew members aboard. | Continue reading
The My Health Record phoneline was in meltdown today as people who wanted to opt-out of the controversial scheme scrambled to make their choice known. | Continue reading
A TEAM of medical researchers believes they are on the cusp of developing a cure for HIV, after an initial human clinical trial delivered astounding results. | Continue reading