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More than 200 manufacturers including Tesla, Volkswagen and BMW are transmitting information to government-backed monitoring centres — generally without car owners' knowledge. | Continue reading
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A landmark court ruling over negligent driving prompts calls for tougher regulations to address fatigue and claims Uber drivers are able to circumvent a safety feature designed to limit hours. | Continue reading
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Australian cyber security authorities believe Iranian criminals were behind an extortion attempt on a defence shipbuilder. | Continue reading
China's state-run Xinhua news agency releases footage of its newest stars: virtual news presenters that use artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
The midterm elections show the America of Barack Obama still exists, even though it needed a push from the man itself to come back to life. | Continue reading
In the video game Grand Theft Auto V, players steal cars and rob banks. In the real world, its owner is cracking down on players who hack the game itself. | Continue reading
In the video game Grand Theft Auto V, players steal cars and rob banks. In the real world, its owner is cracking down on players who hack the game itself. | Continue reading
US President Donald Trump takes the unusual step of using a Game-of-Thrones-inspired meme to announce the restoration of oil sanctions for Iran, and HBO is not amused. | Continue reading
Pulses of electricity, delivered by a small implant, successfully restore movement and even appear to rewire lost connections in the spinal cord. | Continue reading
Imagery captured over a remote and highly volatile region of western China reveals a growing network of internment camps used to indoctrinate vast numbers of the region's population. | Continue reading
Signs outside cafes and expert grammarians agree: we'd probably be better off without them. | Continue reading
Would you fly on an all-electric plane powered by batteries? | Continue reading
Do you know what personal details your phone is sharing about you when you're not looking? We decided to try to find out for sure. | Continue reading
Do you know what personal details your phone is sharing about you when you're not looking? We decided to try to find out for sure. | Continue reading
US motorists get a shock as a vintage plane painted with the insignia of Hitler's air force crash-lands in the middle of a highway in southern California. | Continue reading
In the race to perfect driverless flying car technology, the high-tech city appears serious about getting the scheme off the ground. | Continue reading
It's the strawberry punnet whodunit. An entire industry was brought to its knees in September when needles were discovered in fruit picked and packed for public consumption. | Continue reading
Maybe physicists should leave human intuition at the laboratory door when designing quantum experiments. | Continue reading
A parliamentary hearing is told that much more than the 22 allotted government agencies have been accessing metadata. | Continue reading
China is reportedly in the process of creating an artificial moon that would be bright enough to replace the streetlights in the south-western city of Chengdu by 2020. | Continue reading
China intensifies its crackdown on religion, with images emerging of Christian crosses burned and ripped down. | Continue reading
A world-first project opening in Sydney this week is translating artwork into musical compositions. | Continue reading
It appears the very attributes that have fuelled a mania around Elon Musk — his vision, brash personality and willingness to take risks — could prove to be his downfall. | Continue reading
Take our quiz to understand what the future of fake news might mean for all of us. | Continue reading
Tasmanian police officers drive alongside a runaway train for almost 10 minutes before operators deliberately derail it, sending it crashing through a fence with debris hitting two pedestrians. | Continue reading
Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.. | Continue reading
Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.. | Continue reading
Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.. | Continue reading
The mother of Madison Lyden, the Tasmanian tourist killed by a truck while riding a bike in New York, accuses Manhattan's top prosecutor of sheer cowardice for failing to file criminal charges against an Uber driver involved. | Continue reading
Tech experts are surrounding the Lego city of Shell Cove in Canberra to simulate how authorities may react if an Australian city was hit by a cyber attack. | Continue reading
Testing is underway to determine exactly why an orange purchased at a Brisbane fruit and veg shop turned purple hours after it was cut open. | Continue reading
Regional communities are being encouraged to take advantage of the growing electric vehicle market and invest in charging technology. | Continue reading
While tourists flock to marvel at the architectural brilliance of Sydney's Opera House, few know about the one-of-a-kind concrete structure only a few metres below them. | Continue reading
To target one of the Great Barrier Reef's primary threats, researchers have come up with a tiny yellow submarine that will seek out crown-of-thorns starfish and kill them | Continue reading
A Canberra scientist develops a DIY medical kit that tests for diseases such as malaria. | Continue reading
Traditional stories including song show how indigenous people observe the features of twinkling stars to predict weather and changes in season. | Continue reading
An Australian tourist cycling in New York City has died after being hit by a garbage truck as she swerved to avoid a taxi blocking the bike lane near Central Park. | Continue reading
If gender must exist in our emoji keyboards, it should at least be properly implemented, say critics of the Unicode Consortium. | Continue reading
It may have been a lazy, 'why bother?' attitude that led to the downfall of Homo erectus, according to new research. | Continue reading
Consumer group Choice says young people are subsidising health insurance for the older generations | Continue reading