This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Thanks to the always evolving state of the pandemic, a lot of folks are still postponing travel plans. Others are leaning into their vaccinated status and traveling for business or pleasure like in the good old days, albeit with a …

Executives at Facebook, YouTube and 4Chan could face jail time under new “world-first” laws designed to stop the sharing of violent videos and images on social networks.  The legislation, developed in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shooting and passed in the Australian parliament on Thursday local time, targets social networks with hefty fines and even jail terms for company …

Gmail and Google Drive are back up after an hours-long outage affecting people around the world. “The problem with Gmail should be resolved,” reads a message  posted at 11:13 p.m. PT Tuesday on Google’s GSuite Status Dashboard. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority …

An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly raking in an estimated AU$300,000 ($211,000) selling stolen login details online.  The man was allegedly behind the website WickedGen.com, which boasted that it had 120,000 users and sold Netflix, Spotify and Hulu logins stolen from almost 1 million accounts.  Working on a tip-off from the FBI, Australian Federal Police arrested the 21-year-old …

Huawei has fired the latest salvo in its battle with the US, confirming that it has brought a lawsuit against the US government over a ban on its telecommunications equipment. The company made the announcement during a press conference at its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Thursday local time. The lawsuit has been brought in the US District Court in …

If you haven’t heard of TikTok, you’re now about a billion steps behind. The social video app, which lets users record themselves lip-synching to popular music videos and share the clips with friends, has just surpassed 1 billion downloads on iOS and Android. That’s according to new figures from data insights firm Sensor Tower, which says the app is now …

Crikey! Google is covered in crocs! The search engine was decked out with fangs and claws and scales on Friday for a Google Doodle celebrating legendary Australian outdoorsman and the original Crocodile Hunter himself, Steve Irwin. Launched on Feb. 22 on what would have been Irwin’s 57th birthday (which is also, incidentally, this year’s National Wildlife Day), Google’s latest Google Doodle shows …

No one has ever sent me unsolicited nudes. My iCloud account hasn’t been hacked and, thank mercy, I’ve never had a vengeful ex share photos of me as revenge porn. But that doesn’t stop me living in constant fear that someone will bust into my house, run into my bedroom and scream “nudie rudie!” just as I’m trying to zoink …

Australia: It’s time to gird your loins for the arrival of 5G. The next generation of mobile connectivity is hitting milestone after milestone as it rolls out across the world, ready to bring super fast speeds, low ping times and ubiquitous connectivity to devices around the world.  The latest milestone comes from Optus, which on Thursday announced its big plans …

Samsung wants to give you PC-level storage in a phone.  The Korean company announced Tuesday that it’s started mass producing 1-terabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS), doubling its previous generation of smartphone storage while maintaining the same footprint — an innovation Samsung has claimed is an industry first.  According to Samsung, the development will bring a more “notebook-like” experience to …