Face, face, face! Apple, TrueDepth and a nose-driven iPhone X game Selfie-satisfied to augment reality with their mugs Science13 Feb 2018 | 20
Talk down to Siri like it's a mere servant – your safety demands it Voice assistants get samples of our voice that can be remixed and faked AI + ML12 Feb 2018 | 71
Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 Done in by the weaponisation of optimisation, and now 2017 may be as good as it ever got On-Prem24 Jan 2018 | 218
Smartphones' security enhancements just make them more dangerous Is that incriminating data in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? Security08 Jan 2018 | 77
Surveillance Capitalism thinks it won, but there's still time to unplug it We gave up privacy for convenience, and 2018's the time to win both of them back Science28 Nov 2017 | 79
Your attention has value, personal cryptocurrency will advertise it ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy Science14 Nov 2017 | 21
Augmented reality: Like it or not, only Apple's ready for the data-vomit gush It's all about AR... and iPhone has the X factor Science13 Nov 2017 | 38
It's time to rebuild the world for robots We smoothed the world for cars, but assume robots will have eyes and ears Science24 Oct 2017 | 55
Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist Security10 Oct 2017 | 88
Alexa and her kind let the disabled or illiterate make the web work But they need a marketplace and the cloud to make it happen Science26 Sep 2017 | 23
Sure, HoloLens is cute, but Ford was making VR work before it was cool Interview Elizabeth Baron found genuine use for virtual reality in the design process Science18 Sep 2017 | 12
The bigger the drone, the bigger the impact Fast book delivery is a first world problem, but cargo-carriers might just slow down the growth of cities On-Prem11 Sep 2017 | 35
In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen With three different forms of Chinese spoken across one mega-city, smartphone translation is essential AI + ML25 Jul 2017 | 12
Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs Once the tap turns on again, GPUs will restore PCs and edge computing to glory Science10 Jul 2017 | 71
Robots will enable a sustainable grey economy Oldies will retain mobility and independence when Teslas can self-drive them to work or be sent out to do the shopping Science29 Jun 2017 | 93
Connectivity's value is almost erased by the costs it can impose The internet made information flow on the cheap, but making it anti-fragile will cost plenty Security13 Jun 2017 | 35
PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls Star Wars New Hope @ 40 Sort of. Leia's a New Hope Science24 May 2017 | 55
Go ahead, stage a hackathon. But pray it doesn't work too well OPINION Are you ready for an idea from the playground to challenge your organisation? Devops23 May 2017 | 21
Facebook is abusive. It's time to divorce it And lament that early browsers gave up on web site authoring tools and created monsters Science08 May 2017 | 253
TVs are now tablet computers without a touchscreen And that's good because apps can handle codecs that broadcasters abandon Personal Tech26 Apr 2017 | 133
Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn't outweigh the benefits Security10 Apr 2017 | 77
OVH-VMware deal skips Australia, will snuff vCloud Air's public bits Focus will be on Europe, US SaaS05 Apr 2017 |
Trump's America looks like a lousy launchpad, so can you dig Darwin? The space boom is lifting off and there's only so many places close to the equator with heavy industry and stable government Science27 Mar 2017 | 39
Can you ethically suggest a woman pursue a career in tech? Efforts to engage women with STEM are useless if 'Bro culture' means they face years of harassment and frustration On-Prem13 Mar 2017 | 178
Autonomous cars are about to do to transport what the internet did to information Matter is going to move more freely and cheaply than ever before Edge + IoT27 Feb 2017 | 121
Kids these days will never understand the value of money Nor should they, because the folding stuff is disappearing into phones and cards On-Prem13 Feb 2017 | 89
'Grey technology' should be the new black When the elderly can't access services or communicate, we all lose Personal Tech31 Jan 2017 | 83
Too much landfill, too little purpose: CES 2017 Tech sector needs decluttering Personal Tech10 Jan 2017 | 52
The future often starts as a toy, so don't shun toy VR this Christmas We won't know the possibilities of VR or any other technology until we play with it Science28 Nov 2016 | 31
The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers Your career is now a game of musical chairs: you need to be ready when the song stops On-Prem14 Nov 2016 | 95
Good luck securing 'things' when users assume 'stuff just works' Making devices secure by design requires more effort than vendors currently allow Security27 Oct 2016 | 70
Virtual reality is actually made of smartphones From the HoloLens to the PlayStation VR, all VR kit is descended from the first iPhone Personal Tech13 Oct 2016 | 61
Zombie Moore's Law shows hardware is eating software Customised CPUs are doing things software just can't do on commodity kit AI + ML22 Sep 2016 | 77
Vale, LOGO creator Seymour Papert, who taught us that code can be creative play Arduino-fiddling kids, and the rest of us, owe Papert a debt of gratitude Software25 Aug 2016 | 12
Star Trek Beyond: An unwatchable steaming pile of tribble dung Review Trek works when the struggle is within, not when the fights are fast and furious Legal20 Jul 2016 | 218
Smartphones aren't tiny PCs, but that's how we use them in the West In China, they get it, QR codes are like money and mobile payments are everywhere Personal Tech13 Jul 2016 | 128
Hackathons aren't just for hipsters Done right, they can be a training tool that engages and produces rapid results On-Prem16 Jun 2016 | 6
8K video gives virtual reality the full picture for mainstream use Reg man gets his hands on Samsung's only-in-Korea Gear 360 VR cam Personal Tech02 Jun 2016 | 20
If you know what's good for you, your health data belongs in the cloud Connected diabetes monitors show the more you share, the more you can be helped SaaS20 May 2016 | 35
When careers don't last much longer than primary school, play is the new training Drag and drop tools that teach through experimentation have a place beyond the classroom On-Prem06 May 2016 | 14
Clucking hell! Farcical free-range egg standard pecked apart by app Software as an instrument of transparency has the potential to scramble politics for good Legal20 Apr 2016 | 72
Grab your Hammer pants – it's the '90s again: Facebook brings Virtual Reality back But why exactly does it want to be a hardware company? Personal Tech13 Apr 2016 | 37
Australia's broadband policy is a flimsy, cynical House of Cards Prime Minister Turnbull is strangling our economy Legal06 Apr 2016 | 37
It's nuts but 'shared' is still shorthand for 'worthless' But it won't be long before sharing's wealth-creation potential is realised On-Prem23 Mar 2016 | 46
Home Ebola testing with a Tricorder? There's an app for that DNA-testing peripherals for smartphones are here. And DNA can change your day Applications09 Mar 2016 | 26
Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin What are the ten largest cities with female mayors? For the first time, machines can answer Software25 Feb 2016 | 26
Bitcoin's governance bungles stain the blockchain's reputation If the cryptocurrency can't organise its own evolution, we lose a chance at better security Security11 Feb 2016 | 26
Sensors, not CPUs, are the tech that swings the smartphone market The more your phone knows about the world, the more useful - and invasive - it becomes Personal Tech28 Jan 2016 | 42
A granny and a marriage celebrant show Turnbull's 4ked the NBN Immersive cameras are mainstream, but our networks aren't built to deliver the content Legal14 Jan 2016 | 14
Rebels defeat the Empire (again) by giving BB-8 an API Disney omitted an API for The Force Awakens' star droid. The Force of the internet decided that wasn't good enough Software16 Dec 2015 | 37
Samsung Gear VR is good. So good 2016 could be year virtual reality finally makes it But can anyone make VR content? Ask whoever runs your local film school ... Personal Tech26 Nov 2015 | 74
Hackathons: Don't try them if you don't like risks Rules and tools to get the most out of your pizza-replete staff On-Prem12 Nov 2015 | 14
Insurance companies must start buying security companies Insurers have no idea how to protect the digital realm. So they need to buy those who do On-Prem29 Oct 2015 | 27
Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation On-Prem15 Oct 2015 | 81
Grounded: Can big data do for agri-business what it's not doing for retail? Agriculture proving fertile ground for analytical startups HPC24 Sep 2015 | 6
Batteries on wheels are about to reshape our cities and lives Cars as we know them shaped our cities in bad ways that IT will untangle Science10 Sep 2015 | 55
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined Kids don't want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can't perceive Software27 Aug 2015 | 106
Telcos' revenge is coming as SDN brings a way to build smart pipes Wanna watch the Olympics in 8K with no jitter? Hand over your credit card, kid Networks06 Aug 2015 | 18
Today's smart home devices are too dumb to succeed You want me to do what? And remember it? On how many apps? Fuggedaboutit Personal Tech27 Jul 2015 | 57
Smartphones are ludicrously under-used, so steal their brains Who needs computers everywhere when the one in your pocket is ready for work? Personal Tech09 Jul 2015 | 73