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Telstra launching direct to cell satellite messaging
The technology allows a standard mobile phone to connect to the Telstra network via the SpaceX Starling satellite network.
How Telstra’s new satellite-to-mobile messaging lets you text using Starlink
Telstra has become the first Australian telco to activate “direct to cell” functionality with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites.
- Tim Biggs
- Review
- Samsung
Samsung’s new phone is skinny and light. That’s come with some compromises
The S25 Edge is a fashion-forward thin and light phone that can hold its own with the best, except in a few key areas.
- Tim Biggs
Easily distracted? Here’s how to improve your attention span
Digital devices, social media and a 24/7 news cycle are taking their toll on our ability to concentrate – but you can train yourself out of it.
- Devi Shastri and Laura Bargfeld
US border security can legally search your phone. Here’s how to protect it
With the practice of examining visitors’ phones now under greater scrutiny, here is what the searches might involve and how to protect your personal data.
- Sophie Dickinson
- Opinion
- Child safety
How Trump’s tariffs will turbocharge child deaths in Africa
Three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, used in smartphones and laptops, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This makes us vulnerable.
- Passy Mubalama
- Opinion
- Opinion
I can’t take my eyes off my husband’s ‘rival’. Is this more than a dalliance?
My husband’s nemesis knows all my secrets, my passwords and bank accounts and has access to my emails. He controls my diary. But I can’t walk away.
- Melissa Coburn
‘I don’t see how it doesn’t happen’: Apple eyes giant change to devices
Apple is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google.
- Mark Gurman, Leah Nylen and Stephanie Lai
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