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Google has confirmed reports that it’s offering tiered discounts for some Google One Subscribers and lifted the lid on exclusive services for Pixel 4 owners. Google One subscribers get a sliding scale of discounts. On a 200GB plan, you’ll get 3% off your Google Store purchases, while 2TB plans see …

It seems like today’s the day for biometric unlocking woes. Not content with letting Google have that limelight, Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S10’s fingerprint scanner can be thrown off by ‘cheap screen protectors’. This means other people can unlock the device – and authorise app installations and payments …

The NSW Government has launched a new app called Park’nPay, giving motorists a simple way to pay for parking spaces even if parking meters aren’t working or they’ve no coins or cards to feed them. Park’nPay is now operating at sites around The Rocks, Liverpool and parts of Darling Harbour …

Google Maps just goes from strength to strength. Along with the company’s other products like Gmail, Photos and Google Pay, it has transformed the way we get things done. Google keeps adding new features, and most of those are real improvements to the service. Crowd reporting of traffic incidents is …

The big reveal on Wednesday morning was the real world use of the Soli technology and although very limited the Face Unlock and motion sensing co-ordination was meant to be fantastic — and it would want to be as it is the only biometric sensor on the Pixel 4. LastPass …

The Nvidia Shield TV is touted as one of the best Android TV experiences you can get and as such users have been eagerly awaiting on an update to the console. We have seen rumours and had suspicions over what this update may entail but today we see that everyone …

The disruption of banking and financial services continues. Not only are digital banks popping up in Australia now (and providing the kinds of digital services the Big 4 can only dream about), but they’re integrating with new and existing services at rapid speed. Australia’s first digital bank Up has partnered …

Espresso Displays is a Sydney-based start-up with a big promise – the world’s thinnest portable touchscreen monitor to improve your productivity every day. Using a clever design process, the LCD display, PCB (circuit board) and casing are just 5mm thick. It’s not the first portable touchscreen we’ve come across – …

Realme’s promise is stylish and powerful camera phones at a fraction of flagship price, which sounds awfully familiar to another big Chinese phone OEM. There’s a reason for that, as it turns out. Prior to Realme’s official Australian launch this evening, I had the opportunity for some hands-on time with …

It’s not a topic that people like to talk about, but whether it comes unexpectedly or after a long lifespan we all eventually pass away. Wills deal with giving away our assets to family and friends after we pass away, but they don’t usually mention key digital accounts that contain …

The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has welcomed yesterday’s announcement by the federal government about new telco regulations that mandate stronger industry-wide identity verification measures before mobile numbers can be ported from one provider to another. Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher, announced new telco …

Adding captions to audio and video is a major accessibility goal, allowing people with different abilities to consume and understand audio and video content. The holy grail has always been live captioning of content in real-time, and with the Pixel 4 Google is now one step closer to that reality. …

I’ve been following 5G for a while now, since it was first talked about at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This feels like a decade ago (but actually wasn’t that far back). 5G has come around quickly – much faster than previous generations of mobile technology. Since that time, I …