Tough Mudder is the infamous 20 kilometre obstacle course that’s encouraged more than two million people around to world to plant their face in mud, endure electric shocks and deliberately plunge into something called the “arctic enema”. Microsoft has announced that the Band 2 is the “official smartwatch and fitness tracker” for the 2016 Australian …

Microsoft’s lower-end Lumia 650 is now available for pre-order in Australia before arriving in retail on May 23. The phone will cost AU$299 and will be available from the Microsoft store as well as JB Hi-Fi, Big W, The Good Guys and even Australia Post. Announced back in February, the 650 has a 5-inch 1,280×720-pixel AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel camera …

LG’s latest flagship phone raised a few eyebrows when it first got announced thanks to one unusual feature. The phone is modular, up to a point, with a removable lower section that allows you slot in new modules, such as camera-style grip. If it sounds a little confusing, that’s because it is when you first see it, but it quickly …

If you’re a “Game of Thrones” fan, then you’ll already have April 25 locked into your diary, because that’s when episode one of season six airs. In Australia that’s happening at 11 a.m., which gives you time to get to Dawn Service and back. If you’re not a regular subscriber to Foxtel then you might be pleased to hear that …

For the past two weeks I’ve been sporting the brand new Fitbit Alta on my wrist, replacing the Jawbone Up2 with which I’m normally so enamoured. There’s just something about the Alta that’s gone and put my long relationship with Jawbone on the rocks. It was around four years ago when I first tried the original Jawbone Up. At the …

Studies have shown that blind people often feel excluded or even isolated on social media when they’re unable to fully join in on discussions around visual media. A new feature from Facebook hopes to fix that. The company is expanding out its accessibility features with automatic alternative text — a description of what’s in an image — being provided via …

Mid-size screen, but with a big battery: That’s what Acer is offering with the newest in its long line of Chromebooks, the Chromebook 14. The promise of the Chromebook and Google’s Chrome OS has always been a low-cost, simple computing system that covers the basics. Traditionally that’s meant smaller screens and low-end processors. Acer has bucked that trend over the …

Once again, the Akamai State of the Internet report has delivered less than impressive news when it comes to Australian broadband speeds. The report, which ranks the average internet connection of countries around the world, has never shown Australia in a great light, but the latest report is, well, worse. First, some context: At the end of 2013 Australia had …

This is pretty much your final warning: If you have a Kindle, you need to update it before March 22 or it’s going to lose Internet connectivity. That, just to be clear, would be very bad, because without the update you’ll no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or sync your device with the cloud, not to mention …

Oculus — the Facebook-owned platform that runs on Samsung Gear VR and, of course, Oculus Rift — is doing the inevitable and getting a lot more social. New features let you connect your Facebook account with a Gear VR headset to watch 360 videos from your Facebook feed, connect with friends and watch Twitch streams with friends in real time. …