
A controversial, highly influential study involving the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19 — one that helped launch months of research and failed clinical trials — has now been sharply criticised within the pages of the same scientific journal that published it. The new post-publication peer review highlights a…

Nothing bad ever happens at Disney. Or, at least, that’s the message the family-friendly company leads people to believe. You very rarely see or read raw, behind-the-scenes coverage from the mega-corporation because everything there is so carefully packaged. And that’s precisely why the new Disney+ show, Into the Unknown: Making…

If you thought you were only sacrificing Joy-Cons and TV connectivity with the Nintendo Switch Lite, the lack of removable controllers also means the compact console doesn’t have any vibration feedback. If you really want to feel that rumble when catching a butterfly in Animal Crossing, this set of snap-on…

The whole point of concept cars is that they’re cooler than normal cars. That’s why carmakers build them — to hint at future design directions, introduce potential new technologies, inspire, excite, and, yes, usually disappoint you when the production version of the car comes out and it seems so, you…

TikTok has dominated Australian headlines over the past few weeks after an unnamed federal politician made allegations linking the popular app to the Chinese government. The politician alleged that the popular video-sharing app “hoovers up” the information of the more than 1.6 million Australians who’ve downloaded it and sends it…

Over the past week, we’ve seen a spike in the number of COVID-19 infections among health-care workers in Victoria. This includes a doctor at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, one staff member at Brunswick Private Hospital, nine staff members from the emergency department at Melbourne’s Northern Hospital, and two nurses at…

Australia’s chief medical officer Paul Kelly recently recommended people in Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire wear masks when leaving the house: […] If people have symptoms and they need to go for a test, for example, which we would definitely encourage, they should wear a mask. Other people, where physical distancing…

Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year. A practice where people come together to remove the offender’s cultural capital and “cancel” them, the phenomenon has intensified since the…