Black Friday has become Australia’s biggest shopping event of the year - a pre-Christmas institution where retailers slash prices and consumers justify buying gadgets they absolutely need (or at least need to believe they need). What started as a US post-Thanksgiving tradition is now a global long-weekend of online chaos, impulse buys and surprisingly good tech bargains.

It would be almost cliche to say this pair of Laifen razors are as if Apple made a razor, but the comparison to Apple is so hard to avoid. These razors shave, of course, but also look absolutely stunning, CNC-machined out of a single block of aluminium and with magnetic swappable heads.

HPE has expanded its next-gen Cray supercomputing portfolio, unveiling new liquid-cooled compute blades, unified management software, and high-performance interconnects designed to push performance, efficiency and AI scalability to new heights. Universities in Germany have already selected the platform for their next flagship systems.

In a market crowded with premium cordless stick vacuums, the Roborock H60 Hub Ultra offers a compelling combination of performance and convenience: high suction, a sealed self-emptying dock, and some clever design touches. But like all devices of this class it comes with caveats. Here’s how it stacks up.

Valve, the company behind Steam and mega hits like Half Life and Counterstrike, has announced three new additions to its hardware family, coming early 2026 - a new Steam controller, Steam Machine PC, and the Steam Frame, a VR headset and controller. All work together, optimised for Steam, but also operating as open platforms.

Google's third generation foldable, officially called the Pixel 10 Pro Fold but colloquially simply the Pixel 10 Fold, shows foldable tech has matured to the point that it's now a serious tool for working technologists - as well as power users, and general consumers alike.

AI demands data; data demands storage. And the more AI, the more the data, and, of course, the more the storage needed. Seagate has announced its new Seagate Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems purpose-built for data-centric environments and the data centre and edge, with up to 3.2 petabytes of storage.

A dusty driver inside Microsoft Windows, shipping for years and years and no doubt on your own Windows PC right now, has erupted into a serious security threat. CVE-2025-24990 has been added to CISA's known exploited vulnerabilities list, with Microsoft confirming active exploitation in the wild.

LEGO has released a party game which may fell find a place under your family's Christmas tree. LEGO's Brick Like This! is an in-person game for two or more teams who race to build randomly-shaped LEGO constructions under time pressure, with one describing the objective and another frantically trying to follow.

Nanoleaf has long been regalling gamers and those who want to light up their spaces with clever, innovative smart lighting solutions. Now it's ventured into health and beauty bringing its extensive light heritage in this remarkable light therapy face mask tackling fine lines, uneven skin tone, acne, and more.

With hybrid work the norm, good conference tech is more important than ever, and the bar for "good enough" has seriously shifted. Like you, I've suffered through many a meeting wondering who the ant people on the screen are where someone figured placing a regular old webcam on top of a TV mounted on one wall of a boardroom.

Yealink has been making SIP phones, video conferencing equipment, and more for almost a quarter of a century. It's no surprise then that its flagship Bluetooth headset brings truly brilliant audio, wrapped in a package that's so comfortable you could genuinely wear it all day.

In an era when wearables are everywhere, the Withings BeamO manages to feel genuinely new. This pocket-sized 4-in-1 device doesn’t just track your steps or pulse; it brings together four medical-grade instruments - thermometer, oximeter, stethoscope, and ECG - into one handheld gadget that turns any kitchen table into a mini health clinic.

During its annual Celosphere 2025 conference in Munich, process intelligence leader Celonis highlighted how global customers such as Mercedes-Benz, Vinmar, and Uniper are achieving major operational gains through enterprise AI powered by process intelligence.

Celonis has used its Celosphere 2025 conference in Munich to unveil sweeping platform innovations that position it as a central player in the new era of agentic, AI-driven enterprises.

AI tools have expploded on the scene, and with them, the term "AI slop" has similarly emerged. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says "vibe coding sometimes feels like things that create slop," but says that need not be the experience in your business.

Agentic AI is here, and GitHub has unveiled Agent HQ, its boldest re-architecture since Copilot’s launch. The company wants to turn the world’s favourite developer platform into a neutral control tower for all coding agents - not just its own. You can supervise and review all your agents, with full traceability where code came from and why.

There’s a quiet revolution underway in mining, and it doesn’t start with a new drill or a bigger truck. It starts with data. Aveva's Glenn Kerkhoff and David Such explain how industrial intelligence, analytics, and AI are reshaping one of the world's oldest industries.

Mark Boyd has spent his life on both sides of the IT desk - from crawling under desks to troubleshoot servers to sitting across from global brand executives in billion-dollar boardrooms. Today, as the founder and Managing Director of AssetSaaS, Boyd is bringing that lived experience together in a radically human-centred way to reshape how small businesses consume IT, cybersecurity, and marketing.

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