Distributing “revenge porn” online or through messages could soon be a criminal offence in NSW. The NSW Government has announced plans to introduce legislation that would criminalise “the distribution of intimate or sexually explicit images without consent,” according to NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton. There’s a reason the practice is known as revenge porn. According to …

As far as product recalls go, this one is big. On September 2, Samsung announced it was stopping sales of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in Australia. Just hours later, the company confirmed that it was stopping sales worldwide and would be voluntarily replacing every single device sold internationally. The recall came in response to the discovery of a …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to battery fires 1:01 Enlarge Image The Galaxy Note 7 has been recalled worldwide. Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 problems are just heating up. The South Korean electronics giant on Friday said that because of a problem with the Galaxy Note 7 battery it would halt sales of the new …

Samsung is halting retail sales of the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in Australia amid reports that batteries in some devices have exploded. The smartphone manufacturer today advised that it was working with retailers to “inspect” devices, and that sales of the Note 7 would be “paused.” It’s an embarrassing turn of events for Samsung, which launched the Galaxy Note …

Michael Doherty can’t live without his iPhone. He sends text messages to his friends, uses the phone to check football scores and even followed the Olympics this year. Being both deaf and blind, it’s one of the few ways Doherty can interact the world. The combination of hearing and vision disabilities makes navigating the world incredibly difficult. But with the …

The surcharge sting of online shopping is about to fade. From September 1, a ban on excessive credit card surcharges will mean companies can no longer be able to charge crazy card fees when you get to the checkout. The ban, put in place by the ACCC, ditches flat fees charged by companies in favour of a percentage-based surcharge that …

The two big names in contactless payments are slowly making their way into the Australian market, with ANZ today announcing that it will extend support for Apple Pay and Android Pay to customers with an ANZ-issued MasterCard. From today, the 500,000-plus ANZ customers with a MasterCard will be able to use Apple Pay on their iPhone or Android Pay on …

Australian Netflix customers are going to have a tougher time watching geoblocked movies and TV shows after local VPN provider uFlix announced it has pulled support for unblocked Netflix content. The Melbourne-based company promises its users access to overseas content normally unavailable in Australia — through services such as Hulu, HBO Now and BBC iPlayer — for a monthly fee. …

Unlimited calls and texts are about as important on your phone these days as the ability to program your own polyphonic ringtones (oh Salt-N-Pepa ringtone, we hardly knew ye). But we’re also moving into a world where data allowances matter less and content streaming on your mobile without using that data matters more. With that in mind, Optus has just …

Now playing: Watch this: Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian… 2:02 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. I was in the kitchen at my parents’ house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from …