Online

Queensland MP Taking The Fight To Atkinson’s R18+ Games Ratings Refusal

11:46AM Nick Broughall | It’s all well and good for us consumers to bitch about the lack of an R18+ rating in video games, but it’s another thing altogether when politicians start doing it for us. The Hon Kate Jones MP has sponsored a government petition up in Queensland to bring change to the current classifications scheme. More »
Online

iPhone And Android Are Taking Over The (Mobile) Internet

8:31AM John Herrman | So, what does it take to snatch a combined 75 per cent of US mobile internet traffic? Two operating systems, a handful of phones and one great browser core. More »
Breakfast Wrap

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night

Science

LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn’t End The World

8:10AM Jesus Diaz | Hey, we are alive! At the end we didn’t need any escape pods: The Large Hadron Collider has smashed two particle beams together for the first time. However, the unknown is still ahead of us as they ramp things up: More »
Computers

Why It’s Gotten Straight Stupid To Buy A Mac Pro

8:00AM Mark Wilson | Never before has it been so apparent that a power tower – pretty much the laziest design in the computer industry – is being sold by a design-centric company with neither design nor power. More »
Design

The Pop-Up Cardboard Office

7:17AM Jesus Diaz | We like cool pop-up books here. Awesome scale pop-up cardboard office? Yes please. Designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner, I want your babies. Your cardboard babies. Sadly, the pop-up cardboard office doesn’t include a pretty sofa for siestas. [Likecool]
Cameras

Creative’s Third Gen Vado HD Pocket Cam Improves… But Drops GB

7:05AM Rosa Golijan | The third generation of Creative’s Vado HD pocket camcorder improves on the last generation’s features with better low-light video recording, manual exposure adjustment and motion detection modes, but for some odd reason only a 4GB model will be available. More »
Cameras

Gifts For Aspiring Artsy Photographers

6:59AM Matt Buchanan | Every photographer wants to be artsy, because if their Flickr stream isn’t fancy enough to pull in lots of “Oh, you’re so talented” comments, what’s the point? Here’s some gift ideas for aspiring artsy photographers. More »
Phones

Your Phone At 48 Degrees Below Zero

6:40AM Matt Buchanan | At –55F (–48C), your phone’s dead, but unlike people, it can be revived. In fact, a Moto Krzr survived a bath in a –314.7F (–192.6C) bucket of liquid nitrogen. More »