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Face unlock feature once again defeated with anything resembling owner's face.

The Google Pixel 2 line will come from HTC later this year, but smartphone makers are reportedly racing already for the chance to make the Pixel 3 due in 2018. Potential partners include HTC, LG and more, according to a new report.

Major international technology firms have announced they will set up a cross-industry forum to tackle online terrorist propaganda following a crunch meeting with the Home Secretary Amber Rudd. The commitment from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, c

It used to be one of the joys of writing embedded software was never having to deploy shell scripts.But now with platforms like the Raspberry Pi becoming very common, Linux shell scripts can be a bi...

Apple is making more moves to clean up its App Store.

The road to the perfect phone-desktop hybrid is littered with the carcasses of ambitious failures -- just look at Microsoft's Lumia 950 and Motorola's Atrix. Still, that isn't stopping Samsung from giving it a go with a new dock for the Gal

The Samsung Galaxy S8 has arrived, but should you buy it or are you better off sticking with last year's effort?

Samsungs latest flagship has an all-new design with slim bezels.

Samsung's flagship Galaxy S8 and S8+ Android smartphones are here and they've got bigger curved screens, faster performance and the Bixby AI assistant.

Large-scale solar looks to be on the cusp of an Australian boom. The country has had a record-breaking year in the construction of major solar projects, and the trend is predicted to continue.

CERN scientists discovered five subatomic particles, which were excited states of Omega-c-zero, a baryon particle comprising two quarks and a charm quark. The excited states were carrying more energy than the standard particle of Omega-c-zero.

The recent ban on electronics larger than smartphones, as upheld by some U.S. and UK airlines came without sufficient reason. Recent reports, however, have now shed light on the possible cause of the ban.

Fear and Loathing in Belize

The National Bureau of Economic Research released a new paper examining the effects of robots on US employment, and it doesn't look good.

A team of scientists successfully transform a simple spinach leaf into heart tissue. The interdisciplinary teams success could solve bioengineerings long-standing human tissue regeneration problem.

Hosting service's access to .au registry suspended Australian web service firm Enetica has provoked consternation among customers frustrated about a prolonged outage now entering its second day.…

Adding a fresh leg up to technologies seeking to replace silicon in solar panels, a photovoltaic perovskite ink has been created which dries up in a minute at 100C on any surface, paving for cost-effective mass production.

Apple has responded to the latest crop of WikiLeaks documents.

AI, VR and 3D printing are among the hottest areas in technology today.

A US Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania has upheld a ruling that found that refusing to decrypt a hard drive for police, even if youve forgotten the password, is considered contempt of court. The post Court: Claiming you forgot your decryption