Aussie bid to make a crease-free cotton shirt
THE dread of pulling out the iron to work through a pile of creased shirts could soon be over, with CSIRO researchers embarking on an ingenious new project.
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Apple’s new smartwatch rival
GET ready for the two biggest smartphone firms to fight for space on your wrist this Christmas, as Samsung reveals a new smartwatch that could give the Apple Watch a run for its money.
New Samsung has record-breaking price
THE world’s biggest smartphone maker has unveiled its new flagship device with surprises aplenty, including its price.
Facebook prepares next big move
AFTER accusations that Facebook is damaging academia, Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a new hiring spree nabbing top robotics researchers.
Google tool can predict when you’ll die
WHEN a sick woman went into hospital doctor’s gave her a 90.7 per cent chance of surviving her visit. Google was less optimistic.
This is the real future of Aussie jobs
WHETHER in a kitchen, on a movie set or on the production floor of a factory, our workplaces are beginning to look very different.
We should welcome our robot overlords
WHETHER working in a kitchen, on a movie set or on the production floor of a factory, these robots could actually help save your job.
Google’s ‘horrifying’ experiment
THE tech giant has been skewered over the “deliberate deception” of its latest product with critics claiming it proves Silicon Valley is ethically lost.
Backlash over Google’s ‘horrifying’ experiment
THE tech giant has been skewered over the “deliberate deception” of its latest product with critics claiming it proves Silicon Valley is ethically lost.
Australia’s ‘skinniest house’ is a bargain
AN AUSSIE family has turned a $250,000, driveway-width plot of land that nobody wanted into a dream three-bedroom home.
China scrambles to cover big weakness
CHINA has long been concerned about its reliance on imported chips from global names such as Qualcomm and Intel and its scrambling to fix it.
The hidden nasties in our cities
YOU may not have noticed but our cities are littered with ingenious, unsettling structures designed to prevent “undesirables”.
Quickest way to $0 power bills
A GERMAN firm is starting a huge push into the Aussie market — and this Sydney family is proof of the potential savings to be had.
Awkward problem with US fighter jets
THE United States has two of the most potent and expensive stealth fighter jets in the world, but there’s an embarrassing flaw with them.
Big problem Elon Musk is tackling next
BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk just can’t help sharing his harebrained ideas with the world — but maybe it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Shocking new footage of bridge collapse
HEART-STOPPING dash cam footage has emerged of last week’s Miami bridge collapse, showing the deadly incident from the point of view of the drivers.
Big problem with our stations
A RANKING of the world’s best rail hubs has Grand Central at the top and Sydney Central at the bottom. There’s a big reason why Australia scores so low.
Why this house only costs $12,000
IT SOUNDS like it’s too good to be true but a new type of housing design could be the key to a mortgage free life.
$4bn ‘bungle’: Massive train fail
DAYS after it was discovered NSW’s new trains were too big for the tunnels, turns out Queensland’s new trains are kind of illegal.
Amazon boss’ $50m mountain project
WHEN you have all the money in the world you can do some wacky and wonderful things, but even Jeff Bezos admits this is a little different.
Huge flaw with Apple’s $6.3b HQ
APPLE’S futuristic ring-shaped headquarters are the fifth-most expensive building in the world, but all that money could not fix one major design flaw.
‘Embarrassing’ flaw in China’s new jet
THE superpower wants to show off its strength and growing capability in air combat but its long awaited J-20 stealth fighter has failed some important tests.
Spain cracks 500-year-old secret code
MADE up of more than 200 codes and 88 symbols, the secret letters between a famous Spanish king and his general confused historians for centuries.
What you missed in Starbucks logo
MOST of us see the Starbucks logo every single day, but chances are you might have never noticed the secret hiding in plain sight.
Inside an ultra-luxe club for tech elites
A SECRET club frequented by San Francisco’s tech elite has dropped its strict no-photos-allowed policy to give a rare glimpse of what goes on behind its doors.
‘Best thing the state has done in years’
MILLIONS of people descended this CBD station’s escalators over eight decades. Now they’ve been reborn in the most unexpected way.
Six crazy buildings that never were
THE Sydney Opera House might be ‘out there’ in design, but it pales in comparison with a dome over half of Manhattan.
China seeks ultimate weapon of warfare
A REPORT on China’s pursuit of artificial intelligence technologies claims the country is less constrained by legal and ethical concerns.
Bill Gates invests $104m in ‘smart city’
CO-FOUNDER of Microsoft Bill Gates wants to develop a “smart city” and has just dropped $104 million on a plot of land to do so.
Teen CEO solves our biggest gripe
RYLAN, 16, is earning more in one day than he earned in three months working at a cafe. And it’s all thanks to a simple idea.
Crazy reason this woman looks familiar
THIS woman looks familiar but she is the product of a freakish new technology that is set to change how we see the world.
Inside Barcelona sex doll brothel
THIS Barcelona brothel replaced sex workers with dolls so clients could act out their weirdest fantasies but it has faced swift backlash.
Our future houses are going to be so cool
FUTURISTIC houses are almost here with toilets that conduct medical tests, “smart mirrors” that virtually dress people and much more “around the corner”.
AI not held back by human knowledge
A GOOGLE-owned artificially intelligent computer is “no longer constrained by limits of human knowledge,” its creators say.
Is this the world’s coolest office?
THE biggest tech companies on the planet seem to be competing for who can build the coolest offices — and we have a new favourite.
US Army’s deadly new weapon
LETHALITY, survivability and sustainability have all been flagged as the improvements from a new weapon about the rolled out by the US military.
Hidden threat of robot revolution
THERE is an often overlooked challenge to creating artificially intelligent machines and it could have major implications for all of us.
Big problem with facial recognition push
WE WILL be no safer with a national facial recognition database, says University of Canberra law professor.
Jeans that will make you skinny
CONTOURING is usually reserved for Kim Kardashian’s face. Now, a fashion brand has created a line of denim that claims to shave off kilos.
Porsche’s ultra rare $21m super yacht
AFTER keeping fans waiting for months, Porsche has finally launched its hybrid super yacht — and the water bird is certainly opulent.
‘Beyond anything that we’ve seen’
IN THE next 10 years a technological revolution will sweep aside old notions of education and change the world forever, says a university vice-chancellor.
Aussie’s ‘top secret’ solar car unveiled
THE challenge is to drive from Adelaide to Darwin as fast as possible on nothing but the power of the sun. And this is how they intend to do it.
Russia reveals its secret new weapon
RUSSIA’S new aircraft, the “Ghost”, possesses capabilities such as the ability to be piloted remotely, like a drone.
74-yr-old Aussie inventor takes on China
THIS Australian entrepreneur doesn’t speak the language and faces a mountain of red tape, but he is taking his invention to China anyway.
Call to ban ‘terrifying’ killer robots
ELON Musk has joined 116 robotic and artifical intelligence founders to call for a ban on these lethal weapons or welcome a “terrifying future”.
How we’ll live in the year 2050
THE global population is growing at a rapid rate and the way we live is likely to change. A new report has made a number of predictions for our lives in 2050.
What you never knew about Clippy
MICROSOFT’S Clippy was one of the most annoying features ever, but there’s probably a lot you don’t know about the famed paperclip.
‘Vastly more risk than North Korea’
ELON Musk has used an old Victorian government anti-pokies poster in a strange apocalyptic twitter rant about the dangers of AI.
Most embarrasing design fails
FROM the dangerous to the completely inappropriate, these design fails must have cost a fair few people their jobs.
New $10 note has cool hidden feature
HOT on the heels of the new $5 note introduced last year comes a revamped tenner. It’s due to land in your pockets soon.
Most embarrassing design fails
THESE hilarious pictures reveal the world’s funniest slip-ups in the design department.
The sickest artwork of all time
A GRUESOME virtual reality installation named ‘Real Violence’ allows viewers to watch a man being beaten to a bloody mess.
Gigantic battle of the tanks in Russia
DEFENCE forces from Russia, China and Iran are currently battling it out in a gigantic spectacle competing for the title of best tank.
Why this image is worth $157,000
A PRINT of Nobel prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein is one of the most widespread and iconic images ever. So why is it worth so much?
The billion dollar battle over Bitcoin
THERE is a civil war brewing within the ranks of the most popular digital currency, and billions of dollars are at risk.
Life-like sex dolls a ‘game changer’
THE company behind the new dolls say they can listen and answer questions and move like a real person. And that is only the start.
China’s plan for Holy Grail of tech
CHINA has a plan to become a world leader by 2030 and it involves pursuing what many believe to be the Holy Grail of modern technology.
Inside Atlassian’s crazy new offices
IT’S worth $10 billion and offers its employees a free bar, kitchen and ice cream freezer. But believe it or not, this company does draw the line somewhere.
Before ‘it’s too late’: Elon Musk’s dire warning
BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk has delivered a stark message to politicians telling them we need to act soon to avoid a potential killer.
Hyperloop completes big first test
A US start-up has pulled off a major test of Elon Musk’s super speed train idea. “We essentially invented our own sky in a tube,” the company said.
Map fills half-a-billion-year gap in history
A GAP of 500 million years in our understanding of Earth’s history has been solved. This map gives us unparalleled insight into the missing millenia.
Teenage mogul makes a stunning fortune
WHEN she was just 14 Holly Cardew, a schoolgirl from regional Australia, started selling handbags online. Now she’s a stunning success.
Kid won $1m bet with his folks
MEET the high-school dropout who became a millionaire by the age of 18 after winning a bet with his parents to skip out on classes.
Canberra to Melbourne in 10 minutes
THIS ‘super train’ would be able to travel at 6500km/h and take 10 minutes to get from Canberra to Melbourne. But it’s certainly a long way off.
NASA’s insane supersonic X-Plane
NASA is set to test a new supersonic jet and it’s already being hailed as the “the new Concorde”.
Secret codes hidden in everyday items
DID you know your five dollar note has a hidden code that prevents certain tasks? This is only one example of clandestine messages tucked away in plain sight.
How future classrooms will look
ERGO chairs ditched for ones that make you ‘lean in’, floors designed to sit on, and virtual reality masks everywhere. Welcome to the classroom of the future.
Inside America’s secret bunkers
HIDDEN across the US are secret Doomsday bunkers, which are to be used by government and military officials in case of a nuclear war.
Can this machine ace a uni maths exam?
AN ARTIFICAL intelligence machine has taken the maths section of China’s annual university entrance exam, but the results weren’t quite as expected.
Why you should buy this $200 keyboard
USING unique craftsmanship and materials, the keyboard has been handmade from a single piece of wood, with the grain preserved. Sounds fancy, right?
10-year-old Aussie’s big Apple break
THE youngest attendee at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is a 10 year old from Melbourne — and his work has just drawn praise from the very top.
The tech changing how you shop
A NEW technology is set to change how you buy our food and produce — and it will put the power back in your hands.
Google’s ‘groundscraper’ headquarters
TECH giant Google has showcased a gigantic 11 storey building that will feature one million square feet of space and house 7,000 employees.
What if there were Aussie Pokemon
CRIKEY! Have a look at that beautiful Sidnee — one of the 151 native Australian Pokemon created for a Pokedex of the land down under.
Prodigy to take on Google’s AI
GOOGLE shocked the world last year when its AI toppled a grandmaster of an ancient board game. But can a 19-year-old Chinese prodigy do the unexpected?
Soon to be most common language
IT’S not Mandarin or French. There’s one language that will soon be the most understood in the world and Australia is woefully lagging behind.
Foldable helmet attracts famous investor
AN INNOVATIVE foldable helmet design could solve the most annoying thing about cycling, but they don’t exactly come cheap.
Pizza ad that’s not what it seems
YOU may think you’re looking at a pizza advertisement but really, the pizza advert is looking at you.
You can now order Tesla’s Solar Roof tiles
TESLA has announced it is taking worldwide orders for its Solar Roof tiles and they have a very promising price point.
Aussie student ideas taking flight
AUSTRALIAN university student have made the finals of aviation giant Airbus’s prestigious design competition with an idea that could change firefighting forever.
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