Elon Musk has used Twitter to cultivate a cult-like following. Fittingly, his nemesis is a social media swarm, made up largely of anonymous contributors with made-up names and colorful avatars. | Continue reading
An off-duty pilot in the cockpit saved the Lion Air 737 Max jet on October 28. The next day, with a different crew, it crashed, killing all 189 aboard. | Continue reading
Everyone acknowledges the importance of swimming lessons for children, but we're starting - and stopping - too early. | Continue reading
'What annoys the hell out of me is the double standard: the male nipple is fine but the life-sustaining female nipple is not.' | Continue reading
China's high-speed rail network appears to be at the centre of the state's experiment in harnessing technology to not only watch its citizens, but shape their behaviour. | Continue reading
Dr Yang Hengjun is that rare combination of a scholar superbly trained in China and the West. | Continue reading
The confidential electoral roll data of more than 16 million Australians is being used by buy-now-pay-later providers, debt collectors, marketing giants and betting agencies. | Continue reading
As a politician I’ve made the difficult decision to ''come out'' about drugs because the government’s zero-tolerance approach been a catastrophic failure. | Continue reading
When the IMF predicted hyperinflation in Venezuela could top 13,000 per cent, it seemed as if the country's outlook could not get any worse. It just did. | Continue reading
Former clients, employees and sub-contractors claim Appster had trouble long before it went under. | Continue reading
"Ergonomics does not have a firm basis in science”, says Sydney University professor Chris Maher, a leading authority on back pain. | Continue reading
The social media giant says whether its app is deletable or not depends on pre-install deals it has made with phone makers and providers around the world. | Continue reading
Eurasia Group has painted a picture of what 2019 could be - and it makes for grim reading. | Continue reading
A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart. | Continue reading
The company behind the electric scooters that have taken over Brisbane has copped a notice to remove its scooters the same day they launched. | Continue reading
In the space of a few short years, Canberra has gone from being besotted with tech, to ignoring it, to actively undermining it | Continue reading
"Academic superstar" Tim Wu wants the US government to break up corporate monopolies - starting with Facebook. And he isn't alone. | Continue reading
How the spy chiefs from the Five Eyes countries put their heads together and decided to get muscular with the telco, and, through it, China. | Continue reading
A suppression order on a serious criminal case prevents us publishing any details of the case, even though the news is out on social media and overseas sites. | Continue reading
Apple has been fined for telling some customers they could not have their iPad or iPhone fixed as they had been previously repaired by a third party. | Continue reading