The US holiday shopping season officially opened with a deluge of Black Friday promotions but the frenzied crowds of the past have thinned out with the rise of e-commerce.

CSIRO and Monash Universitys Matthew Hill will receive the Solomon Award tonight for developing magic crystals with dozens of applications from cleaning gases and liquids to mining and drug production.

Luxury German carmaker BMW on Friday said it would build fully electric models of its Mini cars at a new plant in China, as it kicked off a joint venture with Chinese partner Great Wall Motor.

A German appeals court has ruled in several lawsuits against automaker Volkswagen, saying consumers who unknowingly bought cars with software installed to cheat diesel emissions tests deserve compensation but those who purchased ...

Amazon plans to hire 200,000 people for the busy holiday shopping season, double the number of workers it hired a year ago.

Earbuds or headphones make great gifts for yourself or a loved one during the holiday season. Every year, out of curiosity, I search for headphones on Amazon and this year I got more than 90,000 results. Obviously theres ...

Robotic vehicles like Amazon delivery drones or Mars rovers can be hacked more easily than people may think, new research from the University of British Columbia suggests.

PlayStation VR is still going strong going in its fourth year. The peripheral has seen a fair amount of great games since then developers get a grasp of the maturing medium and create higher-quality experiences.

We all rely on GPS to tell us where we are and where were going. The US governments global network of 30+ satellites guides planes, ships, cars, tractors and much more. The latest GPS systems can provide mm- to cm-accuracy ...

The first cargo-carrying robot marketed directly to consumers is on sale this holiday season. But how many people are ready to ditch their second car to buy a two-wheeled rover that can follow them around like a dog?