If you’re a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owner in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan or Malaysia, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Samsung’s confirmed that you’ll be getting a refund for your phone. The Korean electronics giant has released statements in these three countries, telling affected customers in Singapore and Australia that Note 7s can be …

Vodafone has put on its game face for the global race towards 5G, conducting the first public trials of the technology in Sydney today. The telco has partnered with Nokia to test and develop the technology, and both companies were talking up the benefits of lower latency, faster speeds and greater capacity for more connected devices on the network. Vodafone …

Do you still have a Note 7? If you haven’t heard about its exploding batteries, read this — then return or exchange the phone ASAP. If you’re not concerned about your Note 7’s battery catching fire, the return kit Samsung provides may change that. Watch the video above. The website XDA-Developers.com said it received a return kit from Samsung, and …

It’s 26 days until the US presidential election, and Ohio, a crucial swing state, is getting a head start on voting. On Wednesday morning, social media rallied around the early vote-casting with a trending hashtag. While those voters have made up their mind, others can still be swayed by trending topics such as WikiLeaks and Miss Teen USA, controversies that …

Question: How many high-definition videoconference calls can take place between LA and Hong Kong at the same time? Answer: 80 million — once a new project from Google and Facebook is completed. That’s the word from Google’s Cloud Platform unit, which said Wednesday that Google is teaming with Facebook and communications companies Pacific Light Data Communication and TE Subcom to …

No more sliding the conference TV out into the break room and making awkward conversation while Gavin from accounts tries to sort the cables — the Melbourne Cup is coming to Twitter. The social media platform has announced it will stream the race on November 1 this year as part of an hour-long broadcast, available on mobile, tablet or desktop, …

ChromeOS is essentially the Chrome browser with a bit of window-dressing. There’s a desktop space that lets you choose your own wallpaper. There’s a start button in the lower-left corner for launching apps. There’s an app launcher shelf where you can pin your favorite apps. There’s a tray in the lower-right corner that provides quick access to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, volume …

Android Experiments encourage developers to explore new ways for people to interact with its mobile devices. One experiment, Sprayscape, is now available as a free app from the Google Play store — an iOS version is in the works. The app self-describes itself as a “perfectly imperfect VR-ish camera.” And that’s an accurate description of my experience using Sprayscape. Sprayscape …

Now playing: Watch this: 3 ways to find your lost phone 1:12 Unless you’re willing to lash it to your forearm, chances are good your phone is going to go missing at some point. I don’t mean lost or stolen, though that’s always a possibility; rather, phones have a way of falling out of pockets and into couch cushions. Or …

Samsung is preparing to take a financial hit following the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. The company on Wednesday slashed its estimated operating profit by a third, predicting that it would make $2.3 billion less in the three months between July and September than it originally forecast. The company published a new third-quarter estimate of $4.6 billion a day after it …