It’s finally here! Telstra has activated its — and Australia's — first 5G services, covering parts of the Gold Coast.

Steve Vamos has announced that he will step down from Telstra's board at the company's AGM in October. Earlier this year, Vamos, who has been the country manager of more high profile tech companies than you can shake a stick at, took on the role of chief executive of cloud accounting provider Xero.

Lobby group Internet Australia has raised serious privacy and security concerns about the Australian Government’s proposal to introduce a new cyber encryption law, warning the draft law seeks unprecedented expansion of powers to access citizen’s devices.

With the latest flagship smartphones price from around $1500 to $1800 in Australia, Oppo hopes its Find X marks the spot with its big notchless display, pop-up camera and more, but there's no NFC, headphone jack, IP rating or wireless charging.

Julian Shovlin, the entrepreneur behind the UK’s "leading high tech repair brand", iSmash, comments on Samsung's new Note9, the difficulties he envisages with the repair process and his predictions for future models.

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