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My mum is listening to Andrea Bocelli songs on Apple Music, playing on an Amazon Alexa. She asked Alexa to play songs Andrea sings in English, and an utter F-AI-L ensued.

A new Homepod, the 2nd generation, is out, and available from Friday 3 February. The original HomePod was released five years ago and the new generation comes with a raft of innovations made over that period.

Thoughtworks’ XConf conference provides reasons to be optimistic about the potential for software to solve some major challenges.

Smart home tech is exciting, but it can also be an expensive happy. Philips has your back with its Hue starter kit, bundling all you need to brighten up your home with three globes, a Hue bridge, and a programmable smart button - in one convenient pack.

With the M1 Pro offering breathtaking performance that builds upon the incredible M1 launched in November 2020, and then the stunning surprise of the M1 Max that shows just how far Apple is ahead of the industry, Apple's new MacBook Pros, new AirPods, new Apple Music Voice Plan are more are set to stun, and take Apple and all of us to Warp factor 1000!

Apple enterprise management specialist Jamf has announced immediate support for Apple's iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and tvOS 15 releases.

You can talk to your smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, smart speakers, smart displays, home systems and more, and one of the world's favourite ways to speak to your devices is Amazon's Alexa, with Amazon sharing how we're using Alexa devices. 

Communications equipment provider Poly has announced a line of smart, USB Bluetooth speakerphones that use proprietary technology to track the speaker, one of which will be available for sale before Christmas.

The first six-monthly interim report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions Digital Platform Services inquiry shows that the share of online advertising spend of Google and Facebook is increasing, with $53 of every $100 going to Google and $28 to Facebook.

Engineers from the University of NSW are leading a research project aimed at closing a gap in speech recognition systems that they say have until now performed badly in understanding young users of technology.

Sonos delivers a big soundbar with a sound and a price tag to match.

Apple may be about to open up what many refer to as its walled garden and allow the installation of third-party browsers and mail clients on its mobile devices, a report claims.

AirPods Pro, Apple's latest headphones, feature active noise cancellation and a new design.

Thursday, 16 May, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Craig Smith, who works as a school educator in Australia and around the world working with children on the autism spectrum, tells us all about the inspiring inclusive technologies you need to know about – and can even use yourself!

Westpac Bank is claiming an Australian first with the launch of Siri for Westpac, allowing its customers to make payments using voice technology.

It has taken several months to arrive Down Under after launching in the US in October 2017, but the biggest and loudest version of Google's Home speakers is finally set to go to Max down under for A$549.

AirPlay 2 on Sonos means you can do a stack of Apple-related stuff on your Sonos speakers, adding to its flexibility and giving Sonos additional ammo against Apple's own HomePod.

With voice assistants used in smart homes to grow 1000% by 2023, up from an estimated 25 million in 2018, you and your voice assistant smart speaker are going to be heard!

If you have any iOS device capable of accessing Siri, and you live in Australia, you can now ask Siri on HomePod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Macs to play the top ABC radio stations.

We’re living in the future, with self-driving cars and voice-controlled assistants who turn our lights on and off. Our investigations show they're not yet perfect, but maybe there's a home assistant right for you.