Joanna Nelius
Nearly 20 years passed between the first and second Tron films and, at this rate, it may be the same between the second and third. Rumours began swirling in earnest today about the long-rumoured Tron 3, and while they may or may not actually be true, we’ve learned over the…
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, Gizmodo’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, Gen Con Online gets things in full swing with its events schedule for the digital convention experience. Plus, a look at Pandemic Legacy’s upcoming season and a special anniversary edition for The Lord…
Just last week, renders allegedly showing the unreleased Galaxy Note 20 appeared on Samsung’s official Russian website. But now, it appears the Galaxy Note 20 has been photographed in the wild for the first time, confirming details we’ve gleaned from previous reports.
It’s likely that in the past few weeks or months, you’ve come across an ad for a UV disinfecting gadget. It makes sense! There’s a novel coronavirus going around wreaking havoc! Your phones are filthy, your bags are filthy, your masks are full of your own face sweat and spit….
Over the past decade and a half, we’ve watched Facebook mature from its halcyon era of “moving fast and breaking things” into one where it can’t seem to else, the first line of defence always seems to be a well-scripted promise to do better.
The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and the environmental movement have not always walked release of the BREATHE Act, a suite of policy proposals, on Tuesday.
The bro influencers of TikTok, released into the wild with sick iPhone hacks and dropshipping tips but a few years ago, have matured from pups to the Wolves of Social Media. Now they’re harnessing that power with a pump-and-dump scheme involving Dogecoin, the joke currency made of memes, and also…
A Paralysing Childhood Disease Is Set to Surge In The U.S. but Coronavirus Precautions Could Stop It
Outbreaks of an infectious, polio-like disease have popped up every other summer in the U.S. since 2012. This year, the viral illness would have been expected to surge yet again ” but the widespread measures taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus may also prevent large spikes of the…
Pregnant polar bears enter dens when they give birth for up to eight months. The process makes bear mums super vulnerable — they fast, surviving off the fat on their bodies, and can lose up to 43% of their body weight. And in that environment, the mums must care for…
Magic Leap has had it rough during the pandemic. In March, word got out that the struggling augmented reality company was announced it’s found a new head honcho: Peggy Johnson.
Creative technologist AI-powered duplicate of yourself to Zoom meetings. His newest creation is perhaps even more useful, allowing you to Rickroll your co-workers. There’s a good chance your next Zoom meeting will be the last you’re ever invited to.
Lithium is used in everything from medication to mobile phone batteries, but where does it come from? We know it is mined here on Earth, but where it is created in the universe is less well understood. We studied hundreds of thousands of stars like our own Sun and found…
Today I’d like to celebrate an under-appreciated American hero, that least-American-seeming of American cars: the Chevrolet Corvair. Specifically, I want to remind the world how incredibly influential the design of the Corvair was.
Update your speakers, build out your smart home or save on SSDs with this range of Amazon Australia deals. 2 Sonos Ones: $484 You can use them as standalone smart speakers with Alexa or Google Assistant, or as the rear speakers with the fancy (and very nice) new Sonos Arc…
Three months ago I received a hydroponic herb garden for review. As an avid cook and apartment-dweller who missed having a proper veggie garden, I wanted to give it a go. Little did I know how important it would be for my mental health during COVID-19. What’s good about a…
After months of searching, I sent $215 to a guy I had never met, for a bike I had never seen with my own two eyes, 4,828 km from my apartment. A good question would be: why?
Down the Hume Highway in New South Wales sits a tiny rural town, best known for its merino wool production. Holbrook has more livestock than residents but soon, if all goes according to plan, it’ll also be home to Australia’s first cryonics facility — making a few of those residents…
International students in the U.S. will be forced to attend at least some of their fall semester classes in person during the coronavirus pandemic, or their visas to enter the country will be revoked, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced on Monday.
When Hong Kong passed its shiny new national security law last week, the city’s authorities were probably expecting a bit of pushback from the locals, who’ve called the new regime everything from “chilling” to “draconian” to nothing less than the Chinese Communist Party’s “takeover of Hong Kong.”
For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theatre won’t have a blockbuster season. The covid-19 pandemic took care of that, pushing most of the big-budget popcorn films scheduled for this year’s winter months into spring, autumn, or even next winter. Since we can’t enjoy summer…
I live for all things pink, and there’s something beautiful about pink glacial ice. However, the dusty pink layer atop the Presena Glacier in the Italian Alps is more sinister than it looks. Algae has dyed the snow a bizarre colour. The otherworldly look could end up speeding up the…
Fox News broadcast a segment on Sunday about Ghislane Maxwell, the 58-year-old British socialite who was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire last week and charged with the sex trafficking of children in the 1990s. Maxwell was a close friend of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Fox aired a…
Smart home gadgets have gotten a lot better over the past few years, and thanks to big improvements in wifi connectivity, energy efficiency, and more, it’s possible to control almost anything in your house with just your voice. Most of us are spending even more time at home recently (whether…
After a years-long campaign waged by environmental justice activists, energy giants Duke and Dominion abruptly cancelled their plans to build an $US8 ($11) billion, 966 km fracked gas pipeline on Sunday, citing “ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty,” as well as “litigation risk.”
The relationship between DC Universe and the various arms of the Warner Bros. corporation continues to get , and so on. But now, there are even more signs pointing to DC Universe having an uncertain future.
Google Chrome is often maligned as kind of a resource hog, which means it tends to suck up more energy on mobile devices like laptops. But a new experimental flag in the next version of Chrome could help reduce the browser’s battery drain and extend the life of your laptop…
Ennio Morricone, one of the most beloved movie composers of the 20th century, has died. The legendary Italian artist, who was 91, passed after suffering complications from a recent fall.
The obvious choice for playing your favourite Xbox One games through Microsoft’s SN30 Pro for Xbox gamepad which includes an adjustable clip for your Android smartphone.
I decided to take a little break from my annual Fourth of July celebration to talk to you about an American car that I think deserves more attention than it gets: the Crosley Hotshot. The humble little Hotshot helped define a sportscar formula that still works today.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons may have outsold every other entry in the series and become the quarantine game du jour, but there’s always room for improvement. Because let’s face it, for every good design decision Nintendo makes, there are just as many questionable ones.
The incredibly (and deservedly) successful Hamilton: An American Musical has finally arrived on Disney Plus. The live stage show was filmed back in 2016 with its original cast (yep, that means Lin-Manuel Miranda himself in the title role) and was due to be released in spring 2021, but thanks to…
This week Telstra refreshed its entire range of phone plans, increasing data allowances across the board, but upping prices at the same time. Every plan is now at least $5 more expensive per month, but comes with a minimum of 10GB extra. So how do they stack up against Vodafone…
In May Telstra rolled out its SMS Over Wi-Fi system. It was a long time coming and allowed Australians in mobile black spots to send and receive texts via Wi-Fi. But as it turns out, the service is limited to texts only – it can’t send any kind of MMS….
