How Samsung and Apple phones handle being submerged in water and dropped onto hard surfaces, Dick Smith will live on as an online brand, a bacterium that can break down PET plastic.

Inventor of email dies aged 74, drones that autonomously follow you, the National Day of Unplugging.

Google's self-driving car no longer has a clean driving record, Apple achieves a small victory in its case against the FBI.

FBI asks Apple to create software to help brute force a suspect's iPhone, Qantas to introduce free wireless Internet access on all domestic flights, ambulance called after request via Reddit.

Nissan's self-parking office chairs, guilty plea from man who shot down drone, Google's latest Android ad mocks Apple, the iOS 1970 bug.

Twitter suspends 125,000 accounts linked with terrorism, Facebook analysis reveals 3.6 degrees of separation, Toyota to drop the Scion brand.

Microsoft to trial an underwater data centre, Apple is no longer the world's most valuable company.

Haptic feedback technology in vehicles, Microsoft's concept app makes it difficult to snooze.

CES booth raided by US marshals and stock confiscated, programming a drone to land autonomously on a moving vehicle, Germany gets Google, Facebook and Twitter to agree on removing hate speech, hackers break fuel discount voucher algorithm.

Facebook ditches Flash for video, mobile browsing to surpass desktop browsing by the end of 2016, technology to prevent truck drivers from falling asleep at the wheel, The Beatles now available from streaming services, plus more.