Kirk or Picard? The eternal question has stumped philosophers for generations. If you only know Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier from “X-Men” or the charming bromance buddy of Ian McKellan, it’s time to watch “Star Trek” — and thankfully every episode is coming to Stan this month. If that’s not your cup of tea, try …

Hello sky-high movie streaming, goodbye moment of blissful disconnect from the everyday world. Qantas has today announced it will be rolling out in-flight Wi-Fi across its domestic network from 2017, with the help of another Australian icon: the NBN. Trials of the technology will begin late this year, with the help of global tech provider ViaSat, ready to deploy Wi-Fi …

When Australia passed website-blocking laws last year, the big-name rights holders in Australia stayed mum on what they planned to do with the newfound arrow in their anti-piracy quiver. But now, the first court case is set to kick off and Village Roadshow has volunteered as tribute. The Australian film studio has today confirmed that it has applied to the …

Worried about getting a letter in the mail over your torrenting habits? You may have just been handed a stay of execution. A three strikes scheme to track down individual pirates and send them warning letters about their downloading habits has been all but quashed, after rights holders and ISPs decided that manually targeting and contacting downloaders would be too …

After more than 15 months winding its way through the Federal Court, the case between Dallas Buyers Club and iiNet is finally over, with lawyers for the film’s rights holders opting not to take further legal action in its pursuit of pirates. In April last year, DBC was granted the right to the personal details of those alleged to have …

It’s a scenario we all know well: Telco screws up, the social media tide turns, and said telco has a massive public relations crisis on its hands as it attempts to deal with the fallout. Vodafone and Optus faced the problem when their networks went out in 2014, and yesterday a similarly high-profile Telstra outage, caused by “embarrassing human error,” …

Telstra mobile customers across the country have faced a major outage today after a node failure knocked out voice and data for customers network-wide. But while Telstra’s network is designed to cope with problems in its infrastructure, the telco says an “embarrassing human error” was to blame for the fault. Shortly after lunchtime Tuesday, the telco’s service status page was …

If you’re reading this we can probably assume you didn’t manage to score those first class flights to San Francisco and box seats in Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50. Our condolences. But if you’re keen to watch the big game, your options are no longer limited to chucking a sickie, heading down to your local pub and queuing for …

For most of us, replacing a broken cable costs a trip to JB Hi-Fi and a few dollars. For TPG Telecom, a major fault to a 6,900-kilometre long cable will cost a small fortune and a trip to Guam. TPG customers could face a significant slowdown after one of the Internet service provider’s major international submarine cables was hit by …

When it comes to everyone’s favourite four-fingered family, there are Simpsons fans, and then there are Simpsons fans. The latter normally spend their days dropping endless quotes into conversation, leaving others furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation. For those die-hards, we now have Frinkiac — a searchable database of Simpsons quotes. The premise is simple: …