Now playing: Watch this: Australia keeps refugees in radio silence 4:45 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. Behrouz Boochani has been stuck on an island in the middle of the Pacific for the past three …

Telstra is pushing hard on mobile entertainment, announcing unmetered Apple Music streaming for all mobile customers, free 3-month Netflix, Stan and Presto subscriptions on selected plans and an all-in-one entertainment app that ties in with Telstra TV. The telco announced the new sweeteners for customers today, adding to its lineup of sports streaming content, including AFL and NRL (which will …

Australians complained of slow website load times and problems completing the census online, but the cause of #CensusFail may be something far more serious. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said it was hit with a deliberate and “malicious” attack from offshore, designed to sabotage the 2016 Census. The bureau had called on the whole of Australia to “go online on …

Your obnoxious uncle has been doing it for years, but yelling at the TV is finally going to produce results. Home-grown Aussie streaming service Stan has announced new voice search features, letting users search for titles to watch without having to pick up the remote. From today, subscribers accessing Stan through Apple TV will be able search for particular titles, …

NBN is today slotting in another piece of the nation’s broadband puzzle with the launch of the first commercial services using the former Telstra HFC network. While NBN officially switched on HFC services at the end of last month in Queensland, using the former Optus network, it says the repurposed Telstra network will make up the “vast majority” of HFC …

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to lip-sync for your life! RuPaul is hitting Stan with a vengeance this month, ready to take down all the basic b*tches of the world and get them to lift their game in “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and the game show “Gay For Play.” Now is the time to binge on Jinx Monsoon and …

After dabbling in ice cream and kitten delivery, Uber wants to become your go-to takeaway delivery guy with the Sydney launch of UberEats. The standalone app will let Sydneysiders order takeaway and track the delivery to their door from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., seven days a week. The Sydney launch follows the arrival of UberEats in Melbourne in April. …

Obama 2020? If Twitter is anything to go by, Michelle Obama could be next to take the top job. The FLOTUS with the mostest headlined the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Monday. And while Hillary Clinton, who will accept the presidential nomination later this week, has yet to speak at the event, social media was …

Internet service providers, you’re on notice: Stop putting pictures of fast athletes on your broadband advertising and tell us how good your service actually is. That’s the call from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has today announced a review into the advertising and promotion of broadband services and the speeds and performance that ISPs offer their customers. It’s …

Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-described “most fabulous supervillian on the internet,” has been suspended from Twitter, as the social media network also admitted it needs to be quicker to block trolls. The conservative commentator, known on Twitter as @Nero, is famous (or infamous) for comments such as “feminism is cancer” and has been condemned in online circles as a vicious troll. …