The HP Spectre is being called the world’s thinnest laptop, coming in at just 10.4mm thick, around 2.5mm thinner than Apple’s MacBook. Australians can now get their hands on the slick PC, with the company saying on Monday that it’s shipped units out to JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman stores around the country. The base …

When “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” was released back in March, it wasn’t received quite as warmly as Warner Bros. would have liked. Now, the company is ready for round two. On Thursday, the trailer for the film’s “Ulimate Edition” home entertainment release was posted to YouTube, giving viewers a glimpse of some of the scenes deleted from “BvS”. …

How valuable is the information on your phone? If you think it’s worth over six digits, Israeli start-up Sirin Labs just announced a smartphone for you. The Solarin costs £9,500. After tax and conversion, that’s roughly $16,500 or AU$22,700. The selling point of the phone is its KoolSpan military-grade encryption and Zimperium-based threat detection. “Our core consumers are international business …

Rivet is a startup that streams 360-degree, VR-compatible gigs on YouTube. The company has now launched an impressive iOS app that lets iPhone and iPad users stream concerts live — and in VR. At the moment, Rivet only streams performances from New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, which co-founded the service. The app allows users to stream gigs live or …

Now playing: Watch this: Touchscreen may be coming to MacBook Pro 1:38 Apple last month announced an incremental upgrade to its 12-inch MacBook line, kitting out the slick machine with an improved processor. However, the MacBook Pro is set to get a more dramatic makeover, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and 9 to 5 Mac. It’s said that …

While Google was laying out its agenda this week in California, Apple was making some serious moves of its own halfway ’round the world. With Apple CEO Tim Cook in India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Apple said Wednesday it would establish an iOS design and development accelerator in Bengaluru, the country’s home of startups. A day later, Cook …

Above you’ll find the first trailer to “Assassin’s Creed”, an upcoming film based on the popular action game franchise. The movie, slated for a December 21 release, stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. But, strangely, the spotlight is stolen by rapper Kanye West, whose “I Am a God” blares in the background throughout the clip. 20th Century Fox, its distributor, …

With VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive just now hitting store shelves, we’re quickly learning the potential of virtual reality. But it’s not just consumers who are seeing what the nascent platform can do, but academics as well. A study from Oxford University has found that VR can be used to help the 1 to 2 percent …

Facebook announced last month that users could live stream videos over the social network. Now, after beefing up its team with a new editor-in-chief, the Twitter-owned Periscope is shaking up its iOS and Android apps. Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour said Wednesday (in a Periscope broadcast, naturally) that it has opened a public beta for a new feature that allows users …

If you’re one of the increasing amount of people who’s more about working from a cafe than an office, this Indigogo project will be of interest to you. The Lifepack is a spacious-looking backpack with two main distinguishing features: a removable solarbank USB charger, said to be able to power up an iPhone 6S Plus 12 times, and an integrated …