Being stuck without your Opal is now less of a problem with Transport NSW introducing contactless payments for light rail and ferry trips in Sydney. From Monday, passengers can tap their Visa, Mastercard or American Express credit card on an Opal card reader to pay for trips on Sydney ferries or the metro light rail. …

Cher has landed, the glitter cannons are primed and Australia is getting ready to celebrate Mardi Gras — and you can live-stream the whole thing. Twitter and Facebook are set to broadcast the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday (through the SBS Twitter and Facebook pages), taking one of the world’s biggest LGBTQI events beyond the streets …

By 2026, the world will be generating more than 160 trillion gigabytes of data. We’ll be connecting cars and robot surgeons, sending a million minutes of video across the internet every second and using 25 billion internet-connected devices around the globe. But in 2026, Australia will apparently only need broadband speeds of 49Mbps. That’s the assessment of a new report …

If you’re like me, you’ve been listening to “The Matrix” soundtrack all morning, celebrating the news that Nokia is bringing back its retro 8110 slide phone. The OG handset for trenchcoat-wearing hackers, the 8110 was first launched by Nokia in 1996, gaining serious fame in 1998 as Neo’s phone of choice. No Nokia 8110 reboot for Australia? Keanu grieves. Warner …

They say ignorance is bliss. Until now, your personal details could have been hacked, breached or sold on the dark web and you might never have known. Sure, the bliss that comes with being ignorant of identity theft is a strange breed of happiness, but we’re not here to judge. From Feb. 22, companies and organisations will no longer be …

It was an altruistic mission: Offer free access to Wikipedia for people in developing countries, without requiring mobile data to access information. But the Wikimedia Foundation has announced it will wrap up its Wikipedia Zero program this year, ending partnerships with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries who waived data fees to access the online encyclopedia. Launched in 2012, the …

LG wants to make your phone smarter, and it’s jumping on the AI train to do it. Ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, LG announced Monday it will bring artificial intelligence to its smartphone lineup in 2018, starting with this year’s version of the LG V30. Vision AI will bring image recognition to the V30’s camera, while …

Eccentric tech billionaires shooting money into the sky, brands out for a viral video win and fast food companies desperate to prove themselves as tech innovators: When it comes to publicity stunts, the tech world has well and truly delivered over the years. So who won? Who lost? And whose desperate and thinly veiled attempts to appear “with-it” might have …

Forget Spectre: Intel wants to bring back the art of the spectacle.  The tech giant tried to forget its high-profile security dramas by staging a glittering drone light show over the fountains of the Bellagio in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It was all in the name of CES, the world’s biggest tech conference, which is taking place across the city …

This would have been the perfect speaker for Kevin McCallister in “Home Alone.” The Kevin (yes, the name is an excellent ’90s throwback) is a clever little speaker designed to ward off burglars and nosey neighbours. It simulates the lights and noise of someone being at home — whether that’s the flickering blue light and noise of an action movie playing …