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…
Hundreds of scientists across the world have just petitioned the World Health Organisation via an open letter with one demand: Acknowledge publicly that the coronavirus behind covid-19 can be airborne, meaning it can spread through the air (and linger there) via tiny aerosols emitted by the breath of infected people,…
Microsoft seems to be getting a kick out seeing users struggle to find Windows 10 features these days. After moving the Fresh Start feature in the latest version, 2004, and reducing the number of days Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education users can manually delay updates, the company is now experimenting…
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A particularly disturbing photo of President Donald Trump has been making the rounds on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit recently. But is the image authentic? No, the photo is totally fake. But it’s close enough to the very real (and quite grotesque) look of the president that people could be…
In a stunning win for the environmental justice movement, a court just ordered that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down.
Are you spending your sleeping hours getting chased down endless hallways by men with enormous claws for hands? Shrieking in pain as wolves chomp your legs? Re-experiencing various traumatic incidents from your childhood from the vantage point of a ghost, forced to watch the same disasters play out over and…
Unlike Ferrari, Maserati, McLaren, and the rest of the big supercar names, Lamborghini hasn’t really liked to push on its racing cred. That’s usually because the cars the band has fielded on the track haven’t done all too well. This one is no exception, but that doesn’t make it any…
A list of habitats critical for a number of Australia’s threatened species has not been updated for 15 years, according to a report by the Guardian. The list, Register of Critical Habitat, is used to record land that is critical to the survival of a threatened species. Damaging a habitat…
Researchers have sought to answer a question very few people were likely asking — how far can an Adélie penguin poo when it’s guarding its nest? That answer is up to 1.34 metres, in case you were wondering. Physicists conducted the original study back in 2003 to determine how much…
To beat the coronavirus pandemic, countries need to collaborate. We need the best possible science to develop vaccines and drugs, and to test, track and contain the virus. If we’ve learned anything from the rapid global spread of this virus, it’s that we’re all in this together. It was therefore…
The Dodge Journey is finally dead after the 2020 model year, a Fiat Chrysler spokesperson has confirmed. When production ends in the fourth quarter of 2020, the crossover SUV — which by then will have been around for a dozen years — will ride off into the sunset of mediocrity,…
After defining commercial air travel for more than five decades, the Boeing 747 will finally leave production, according to a report from Reuters. The news wire reports that Boeing had made its final orders for parts more than a year ago, signalling the end for the double-decker quad-jet that has…
other cape shows tend to stick with over the course of a season in favour of getting to the point. Though “Sex Patrol” is only the fourth episode of the show’s second season, it feels very much like this arc’s first major milestone for reasons that are both horny and…
Over the years, Festo, a German automation company with a penchant for robots, has designed countless Mother Nature-inspired automatons that swim, hop, and fly like their real-world counterparts. That includes robotic birds, which have now been upgraded with fake feathers that allow the robots to soar through the air with…
is a point of personal fascination for me, for the sole and entire reason that is absolutely bizarre. A thriller about literally outrunning the sun, it is a weird melange of influences and concepts, including being inspired by a novel (Jacek Dukaj’s The Old Axolotl) that it does not resemble…
Andy Serkis made a name for himself as a motion capture actor, and the big franchise that truly proved his talent was Lord of the Rings, where he famously played Gollum. His face, and his voice, are inseparable from Tolkien’s story for fans of Peter Jackson’s films. And for those…
In the shadow of Mount Rushmore on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump decided to celebrate America’s Independence Day by launching a diatribe against liberals, cancel culture, and the “angry mobs” of protestors toppling statues of colonisers and white supremacists. While that may just sound like another Friday at this point,…
We’ve all heard the story. A family comes from the old country. They work hard. They hope. They dream. One of them”¦ gets preserved in pickle brine.
Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians, which means these serpentine creatures might actually be venomous — an unheard of trait among amphibians.
Over 350 elephants have died in Botswana since March, sparking a government probe to investigate the mysterious deaths.
Countless companies have tried to dethrone Sony from its noise-cancelling headphone throne, but none have succeeded. Now Razer is taking a different approach with its first pair of headphones designed for a wider consumer audience ” not just gamers ” by paying homage to the Queen with a look that…
Today Dodge trotted out the inevitable 710-horsepower 2021 Durango Hellcat, 797-HP Charger Hellcat Redeye sedan, and an 807 HP Challenger called the Super Stock that effectively replaces the Demon. The 2021 Durango R/T also got some revisions. Neat, I guess!
A couple of months ago Maserati let everyone know that it was not only continuing to develop its MC20 supercar, but that it is developing its first 100 per cent in-house engine design for it. This new engine has an exciting new name; “Nettuno”. Ooooh. Aaaah. It’s a 621 horsepower/538…
As you read this, health officials are busy finalising the government’s review of the health star rating system on packaged foods. One of the issues the review is looking at is whether the system, which has been voluntary in Australia and New Zealand since its launch in 2014, should become…
Realme’s latest update has quietly stopped split screen mode working on third party Android launchers. Realme’s explanations have been somewhat contradictory, resulting in a third party launcher developer calling the company out. Split screen mode stops working Split screen mode seems to have stopped working with third party launchers when…
A cornerstone of containing the COVID-19 pandemic is widespread testing to identify cases and prevent new outbreaks emerging. This strategy is known as “test, trace and isolate”. The standard test so far has been the swab test, in which a swab goes up your nose and to the back of…
Look, we love Lego. We even love Lego when it’s destroying our wallets with incredibly cool yet buildable art canvases might be a bit too much.
Being an adult is hard nowadays. There’s the ongoing novel feel like a kid again.
A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by scientists.
Google announced Wednesday that it had implemented its SmartReply system for YouTube creators, which will give those users access to suggested replies based on what someone has commented. Unlike the SmartReply system Google currently uses for Gmail, SmartReply on YouTube required some further tweaking because of the way people us…
It’s safe to say that white America’s general image of police officers has taken a bit of a nosedive. A role that some folks respected more than members of U.S. Congress just last year has, in the span of about a month or so, become one that they’re terrified of,…
Microsoft has struggled to convince people to use its cloud storage service, OneDrive, for quite some time. Whether that’s because of the cost or the feature set is unclear — which storage service you choose comes down to your personal needs, and OneDrive may not do it for you, especially…
