Landlines are fading into history as the world goes mobile, with a newly released research report showing that just 16% of Australian households use their landline on a daily basis and over a third – 34% - never use a landline or don’t have one connected.

In the newest instalment of the ongoing saga Samsung has announced that it is shutting down sales and exchanges of its Galaxy Note7 smartphone globally, until it has investigated and found out what is causing the device to catch fire.

A Berkeley team has broken the transistor size barrier. A team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has created a transistor with a working one-nanometre gate.

Yahoo! appears to have put an obstacle in the path of users who want to quit its services in the wake of news of a massive leak of user data and reports that it spied on users at the behest of an US intelligence agency.

Australian tech start up mPort is expanding into the US market on the back of a deal with one of the world’s largest fitness chains, LA Fitness.

Microsoft has announced four new Xbox One S bundles, with "Deep Blue" and "Storm Grey" the new Xbox One S colours to tempt you into upgrading.

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