Forget the so-called flagship phones: The new Australian battleground for your dollar is the mid-tier outright purchase. The latest contestant to rock up is the LG K10, a AU$299 phone first seen back at CES at the start of the year. It’s a pretty basic phone, as you might have guessed from the price. There …

After several generations of Xperia Z phones, Sony is moving back up the alphabet with a new run of X series handsets announced back in March at Mobile World Congress. This includes the midrange Xperia XA, the Xperia X, the super-charged Xperia XA Performance and the big-screen Xperia XA Ultra (well, at 6 inches it’s not huge, but the other …

HBO has revealed the teaser trailer for “Westworld”, the show it clearly hopes will be its next big hit. Airing during the most recent episode of “Game of Thrones“, it sets a grim tone for the Michael Crichton-directed show, based on the 1973 film of the same name. Not unlike another famous Crichton work, on the surface “Westworld” is about …

Starting today, music streaming service Spotify is offering a dedicated Pride category called #PressPlayForPride. The category will bring together curated playlists with personal commentary from LGBTQ artists and advocates across a wide range of music genres. There are over 975,000 Pride and LGBTQ themed playlists on Spotify, the company says. The playlists will come from a variety of public figures, …

“They’re the right demographic, they love new things and they’re very excited about VR”: Ian Paul, Naughty America’s CIO, talking about gamers at the company’s booth at E3 2016. It’s the first time exhibiting at E3 for the renowned purveyors of adult entertainment. In fact, according to Paul, it’s possibly the first time adult entertainment has ever been at the …

One of my favourite moments of Computex 2016 here in Taiwan actually occurred off the show floor. Having just finished up on the Birdly VR (hands down the best virtual reality experience I’ve tried), my colleague Seamus Byrne and I found ourselves hungry for a late lunch. We were close to a place where we’d eaten previously, but with one …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC Vive at Computex features three slick new VR experiences 2:05 If you’re a little bored when you hit the rowing machine at the gym, maybe you’d prefer to feel like you were rowing down a river in the Rockies, or even through an asteroid field in space? That’s what a brand new VR experience for …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC Vive at Computex features three slick new VR experiences 2:05 If you’re making a virtual reality shooter game, how do you solve the problem of movement? After all, most FPS titles are literally ‘run and gun’ gameplay so how do you build a VR shooter when people are tethered both by cables and the reach …

During its keynote at Computex 2016, Microsoft went over many of the new features coming in the Windows Anniversary Update, as well as announcing the Windows Holographic shared platform for AR and VR and the company’s strategy for what it’s calling “mixed reality”. But before the focus turned to the future of Hololens, Microsoft took a look at some of …

The backpack form-factor may be the next big thing when it comes to virtual reality. And after trying one out, it’s easy to see why. My colleague Aloysius Low has already written about MSI and that company’s quite professional take on the idea of wearable computing in relation to VR. The MSI Backpack PC might not have the most inventive …