A power pack that can also be used to jump-start a car. Now that's a great idea. Gone are the days of needing a second car to get yours back on the road when the battery's flat.

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.

Australian men have been knocked off the top spot for world life expectancy, a new report published on Wednesday in The Lancet, has shown.

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