Australia’s telco market could soon get just a little bit smaller.  TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia have confirmed Wednesday they are in “exploratory discussions” to merge. TPG confirmed the news with an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange this morning, noting there is “no certainty that any transaction will eventuate or what the terms of …

Back in March, the whole of Australia watched Cameron Bancroft rough up a cricket ball during the South African ball-tampering fiasco. A nation squinted to see its shame in standard definition. Imagine if you could have seen that catastrophe play out in stunning Ultra HD! Now, 4K Cricket (and 4K NRL, movies, documentaries and concerts) is coming to Australia with …

Spotify is testing a new feature that lets users skip audio and video ads, even without being on a paid subscription. The feature, known as “Active Media,” has been quietly rolled out in Australia and allows users of Spotify’s free, ad-supported service to skip particular ads, with advertisers only paying for completed listens or views. When an ad break comes …

Ever wish you could spice up a video chat with flying asteroids? After announcing big plans for augmented reality features on its apps back in May, Facebook is making good on that AR promise with the launch of Messenger Games — games that use your camera to animate your face in real-time during a Messenger video chat. Facebook is launching …

We’ve been warned about apps that track our behaviour or store our private information, but what if your smartphone screen is betraying you? Scientists have revealed the way you swipe, pinch and tap your smartphone screen could be used to track your identity and potentially breach your privacy. In a research paper presented to the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in …

Forget fingerprint scanners tucked away on the back of your phone or beneath a home button — your next smartphone is probably going to have a fingerprint sensor under the screen that measures your temperature, just to make sure you’re a real human. In an article published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, a group of Korean researchers revealed they have …

Australia is fierce about its football. A strong history of European immigration, an almost religious devotion to sport and the kind of grim determination you would only find in a country roughly 5,000 miles from anywhere, all combine to make us madly devoted to the world game and insanely proud when the national team takes the world stage. And this …

Is your next phone just going to be one giant screen? It will be if Samsung has its way. The latest concept design to make its way out of Samsung shows the company is working on a button-free, bezel-free, headphone jack-free phone that is all screen, all the time. And if you think that means a notch at the top, …

There’s always one person. Seventeen takes. And Karen’s blinking. But no need to host an intervention — Facebook plans to fix your photos with AI. The company released a research paper this week, authored by two Facebook engineers, which outlines a new method of recreating eyes in photos using what’s known as a “exemplar generative adversarial network” or ExGAN. It’s …

No slow-mo? No worries. Nvidia wants to help you turn any old video shot on your phone into a blur-free, slow-motion masterpiece, and it’s using artificial intelligence to do it. Researchers at the company have developed a new deep-learning system that can convert standard video into slow-mo by adding additional frames after the video has been shot. The result would …