Technology

THE NEW YORK TIMES: AI could make the smartphone passe, what comes next?

AI could make the smartphone passe, what comes next?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Every major tech company is thinking about this million-dollar question: What comes after the smartphone?

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
Video
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spruiked his company’s iPhone Air as a ‘game changer’.

Apple’s Air is super thin and very expensive

The new iPhone weighs less than a carton of cigarettes and is thinner than any phone before it. But will cautious consumers accept the fat price tag?

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Apple CEO Tim Cook holds a next generation, as YouTuber Mr Beast looks on at Apple’s launch event.

The iPhone 17, Air and everything else Apple just revealed

THE WASHINGTON POST: Here’s the latest news and everything you need to know about Apple’s product launch ... and what it means for customers.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →

Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters.

Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.

Email Us
By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
The Apple iPhone Air during an event at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.

We want better battery life. Apple’s just did the opposite

THE WASHINGTON POST: Apple’s splashiest new iPhone has a slim and lightweight design that only leaves room for a battery with less juice.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Video
The next generation iPhone 17 during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters.

Apple unveils ‘game changer’ iPhone 17, slimmer iPhone Air

Apple has rolled out its next generation of iPhones that includes an ultra-thin model.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
THE ECONOMIST: Business is finding better, less-knowing alternatives to AI’s god-like Large Language Models.

Why tiny AI brains are beating the chatbot giants

THE ECONOMIST: Business is finding better, less intelligent alternatives to Large Language Models like ChatGPT.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →
US President congratulated Google’s Sundar Pichai.

Google CEO thanks Trump for antitrust resolution

‘Google had a very good day’: US President congratulates Google’s Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin following Alphabet’s favourable antitrust ruling.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
China has expanded the global cyberwar with an ‘indiscriminate’ hack of passwords and accounts across the West.

Australian spy agency blames PLA for global cyber hack

The Australian Signals Directorate joined an international alliance of intelligence agencies to warn that China is conducting one of the most ambitious cyberattacks in its history.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
More than half a million remaining homes and businesses are set to receive full fibre upgrades.

REVEALED: Aussie suburbs to receive full fibre NBN upgrades

More than half a million homes and businesses across Australia yet to receive full fibre NBN connections will be getting upgrades in the coming months. SEE THE FULL LIST

Updated
Read more (1 min) →
Physicians are using AI technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.

Are AI tools making doctors worse at their jobs?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s still not entirely clear why a doctor’s skills might decline so quickly while using AI.

Updated
Read more (4 min) →
A federal judge’s remedy in Google’s search monopoly case has been criticised as a ‘nothing-burger’.

Google’s search monopoly fix is a ‘nothing-burger’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Google could have been forced to correct its behaviour and open up competition, but that did not happen.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The one danger that should unite the US and China.

The one danger that should unite the US and China

THE NEW YORK TIMES: China and America don’t know it yet, but the artificial intelligence revolution is going to drive them closer together, not farther apart.

Updated
Read more (16 min) →
The technology exists to effectively verify ages on social media, an independent trial has found. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Enforcing age limits on social media ‘can be done’

More than 60 age verification tools have been tested as part of a push to better protect children from inappropriate content and harm on social media.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Rented robots get the worst jobs and help factories keep the humans.

Rented robots take worst jobs, help factories keep humans

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The robot rental model has the potential to transform the American industrial base.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →
A photo of Adam Raine, taken not long before his suicide at 16.

A teen was suicidal, ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

THE NEW YORK TIMES: When 16-year-old Adam requested information about specific suicide methods, ChatGPT supplied it. Now his friends can’t believe he is gone. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT

Updated
Read more (11 min) →