MORNING BRIEFING: The Federal Energy Minister 'unreservedly' apologises to Sydney's Lord Mayor for falsely claiming her council spent $15 million on travel, while parts of NSW remain blanketed in haze as winds fan smoke from bushfires.

A Vietnamese man carrying four kilograms of pork-filled mooncakes has been turned away from Sydney Airport after failing to declare he was carrying food.

The mayor of the Inner West Council says a "very deep hurt" is caused to Indigenous Australians by the "jingoistic celebration" on January 26. But an independent councillor has called the move divisive.

The new FFA pay deal will close the pay gap between Socceroos and Matildas players, and has been praised by players, fans and administrators alike.

One Peak Creative, which started in Vancouver before moving to Kelowna, has created several mock ads during the coronavirus pandemic.

EVER noticed that you prefer to carry your baby like this? It’s not a coincidence.

Lenovo is leaping quickly on the latest NVIDIA and Intel technology for its gaming laptops. It's introducing Legion 5i and Legion 7i portables (successors to the Y540 and Y740 respectively) that, most notably, are among the first to use NVIDIA's Advanced Optimus graphics switching. The tech both lowers power consumption in less-intensive moments and ramps up performance in GPU-heavy situations, theoretically giving you added battery life and higher frame rates in the same package. The Legion 7i also touts the option of new GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics if you insist on the best possible visuals.

There are countless examples of the real world intruding on art, making something that was fine a day ago a grisly mistake now. The pilot episode of X-Files spin-off The Lone Gunmen, which aired six months before 9/11, featured a terrorist plan to fly a plane into the World Trade Center, for instance. And it's likely that The Complex, an interactive movie about dangerous biotechnology, skirts the same issue. After all, nobody wants to fixate on doctors in a life-and-death race against disease when there's a pandemic raging, do they?

If you play games with your Xbox One frequently, there's a good chance you already have Game Pass Ultimate. Now is an excellent opportunity to top up your subscription at an affordable price. Newegg is offering a total of six months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $40 when you enter the code "EMCDHDE22".

It's not just multi-manufacturer racing leagues like NASCAR going digital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Porsche is livestreaming its Mobil 1 Supercup Virtual Edition starting on April 4th at 10AM Eastern, when drivers take to a digital version of the Spanish Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for two races in 911 GT3 Cup cars. The iRacing-based series will have 31 drivers, 22 of which are full-time Supercup racers -- the nine others are factory and young professional drivers fielded by big-name sponsors like TAG Heuer and Vodafone.

Science has a reputation for moving slowly. The very process of publishing solid scientific data—let alone developing vaccines and therapies—requires a long timeline. But outbreaks of infectious diseases spread quickly, demanding a much quicker pace. Scientific endeavors to better understand SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have progressed rapidly. Within weeks of the virus emerging…

Does she have a point?

Thanks to Zoom, 50 of their friends were able to attend.

"I’ve been trying to figure it out on my own."

"I think this quarantine is really revealing a lot."

She gushes about her 17-year-old Sy’rai in interview

Don Lemon came through with a word!

"We are all in this together."

The documentary hits Netflix tomorrow.

Just say "no" to mom guilt.

Plus more celebrities flaunting their curves!

See the new ad that has fans cheering for the baby girl!

"This is also my love letter."

She has not been able to watch the horrifying video

Sneaker heads, rejoice.

Beyoncé, Serena Williams, Kerry Washington, and more!

We're celebrating moms as we countdown to Mother's Day.

These 11 songs will show her that she is appreciated.

Unwind with these simple but healing body-bending poses.

Omada Health founder and CEO Sean Duffy had an a-ha moment about digital health when he saw his mother start asking her doctor for FaceTime appointments. “That’s when I realized we are in a different world right now,” he said.

Over the last few years, social networks have instituted slightly stiffer policies against misinformation, but those systems are being pressed to their limit by a fast-spreading new video. The ‘Plandemic’ clip “spreads debunked conspiracy theories ab...

The first full week of May brought a number of deals on home tech and mobile devices. Those on the market for a smaller Echo device with a screen can still snag the Echo Show 5 for $50 and the Show 8 for $80. Star Wars fans with a soft spot for slow...

Google isn’t done making Duo video calls more accommodating in the pandemic era. It’s introducing a handful of updates that make chats livelier, including a family mode. Fire it up and you can add cute AR effects or doodle while you keep in touch. Th...

Scary stories about Zoombombing and privacy leaks may have you feeling tense about setting up a video call. But under current circumstances there aren’t a lot of other options available, so columnist Violet Blue has some advice on what you should (an...

Borucki and catcher Jansen, who usually work out together in the winter, both stayed in the Dunedin area while most of their teammates went home.

The money earmarked for sports will go to national and provincial organizations, Canadian sport institutes and Indigenous sport groups.

It helps to have a former big-leaguer as a dad if you want to stay sharp during a pandemic.

Uber's first-ever safety transparency report establishes a baseline from which the ride-hailing giant must improve.

California lost more manufacturing jobs to China than any other state.

Snap's stock took a tumble after a disappointing year-end earnings report, but analysts say there's ample reason to think the company's upward trajectory will continue.

Equifax, like most large U.S. companies, failed to encrypt the databases that store some of the most sensitive details of people's lives.

Bernie Sanders, who has criticized Amazon's treatment of its blue-collar workforce, led the field of Democratic presidential hopefuls in donations from Amazon employees, with support from both warehouse workers and software engineers.

Facebook will remove more than 1,000 Trump campaign ads that urge people to fill out a mailer that looks like official 2020 census forms.

Filmmakers often say the last thing they want is for people to watch their movies on a phone. Now, as Quibi launches, some are hoping they do exactly that. It may be the boldest cinematic experiment in memory.

A coalition of more than 50 groups is calling on Congress to resist Uber's call for a new category of work and force on-demand gig companies to fund unemployment benefits.