When it comes to smartphones, Australians are buying more Samsung devices compared to this time last year, and ever so slightly more iPhones, but less of almost everything else.

In a three-day event that has already seen the country announce its intent to build an entirely new city - called Neom - from scratch, the announcement that a robot named Sophia has been granted Saudi citizenship stands apart.

Pay TV bundling refuses to die, but the pressure is on to offer bite-sized pricing in the Netflix age.

Under French military supervision, four golden eagle chicks hatched last year atop drones - born into a world of terror and machines they would be bred to destroy.

An Australian game producer who worked on Horizon Zero Dawn fills us in on the intent behind the beautiful, robot-dinosaur-filled adventure.