Tegan Jones
If your brain is wired like mine, your car is basically always dirty. There is a sliding scale of what is considered “clean” and the definition changes to be just slightly cleaner than however clean you just finished getting it. However, with nothing to do, now is the change to…
Scientists are determining the lifespan of the world’s largest fish with the help of nuclear weapons tests from the 1950s and 60s.
There have been far too few truly good concept cars in the last decade. Whether this can be attributed to a proliferation of new forms of media OEMs can use to reach consumers, a decreasing importance of auto shows, or the general tightening of belts that still hasn’t eased from…
With the Whisperer War about to reach its bloody zenith and everyone’s lives on the line, The Walking Dead apparently isn’t afraid to let things get weird first. And the assault rifle-toting ray of sunshine who made her debut last week was only the half of it.
If you’re looking at a NBN plan – NBN 50 or NBN 100 tends to be the best bet when it comes to speed. Anything slower and you’re not getting much of a improvement over ADSL. While these plans are pricier than sluggish speed tiers like NBN 25, there are…
Isolation is a common theme in cinema: stranded on an island (Cast Away), in space (Gravity or The Martian), on a boat (Life of Pi), stuck in the desert (127 hours), or simply confined to an apartment (Rear Window). But what about when the filmmakers themselves are stranded?
A leak has revealed that Tesla seems to have been working on a new Launch Mode called ‘Cheetah Stance’ that utilises the Smart Adaptive Air Suspension in the Raven editions of the Model X and Model S.
When dealing with weeks of social distancing, sometimes you have to find happiness right where you are. For many of us right now, it’s playing Animal Crossing. But the warm, fuzzy feelings of life on a quaint country island don’t have to end when the Nintendo Switch is off! Here…
Surprising quantities of bacteria have been found living in clay-rich rocks under the Pacific seafloor. The discovery raises the possibility of equally resilient microbes living deep beneath the surface of Mars.
For those unaware, Zoom officially has a porn problem.
With Nightwing making his debut in Titans‘ second season (and Bruce Wayne showing up rather frequently for a show that isn’t about him), it was only a matter of time before even more members of the Bat-Family made their way to the DC Universe show.
In our new reality, plenty of us are having to get used to working from home, and that often means making and taking calls, depending on your job. If you don’t want to have your phone pressed to your ear all day, or you’d rather keep your work on your…
Practical effects used to be the only way of doing things. If you wanted a cool image on screen, you had to build it and figure out how to film it. Now, computers make that work, well, not easier, but different. If you were an old special effect, it would…
On the day that the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised the public to wear cloth face masks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Etsy’s CEO, Josh Silverman, told his community of sellers that those with the skills and materials to make these masks should consider…
Amazon has been scrambling to perform damage control amid alarming reports from employees and demands from U.S. lawmakers regarding its lacklustre response to the covid-19 pandemic, but on Thursday the e-commerce giant’s PR crisis spiralled even further.
Beginning Sunday, Zoom will begin requiring passwords and enabling virtual waiting rooms by default in an attempt to tamp down on the flood of troll attacks that’s accompanied its ballooning userbase in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
From the perspective of the young Amy Pond, meet the Raggedy Doctor.
Right now, whales are facing myriad threats, from pollution and getting tangled in fishing gear, to warming and acidifying oceans. To understand how those threats are affecting whales, scientists need data. And to get that data, they’ve come up with a drone that can capture whale snot.
On December 31, few Americans had ever heard the word “coronavirus.” It was unfathomable that in cities like Pittsburgh, the U.S. National Guard would soon be deployed to work food lines that stretch beyond sight. Few knew the emotional strain of having to physically separate themselves from a loved one…
Trying to evacuate your home before a hurricane hits is hard enough. Now imagine doing it against the backdrop of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
Because it’s still unclear if and when countries across the world will manage to get on top of the covid-19 pandemic, there is no way of knowing when it will once again be safe for the public to return to everyday life and pile into movie theatres. This has led…
This week, the U.S. government approved the first blood test in the country that will look for the antibodies produced by the body to fight the novel coronavirus. Such a test can reveal whether someone is actively infected by the virus, as well as whether they were previously infected but…
As out planet heats up, one of the most important we can understand is the relationship between climate change and war. Scientists, advocates and policymakers have argued that in Syria, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya, drought exacerbated existing regional conflicts.
Compared to the audio quality of digital files and CDs, analogue cassette tape was kind of awful. And as YouTube’s Kris Slyka discovered, it’s an even worse medium for recording and playing back video, but quality issues don’t make Slyka’s clever hack of an old cassette recorder any less impressive.
The Matrix turned 21 years old this week and, like many of us, I’ll never forget the first time I saw it.
A team of scientists have discovered a key step in the search for more colours and they’re looking to nature to find it.
Petrol may be dirt cheap right now, but if history is any indication, that can all change overnight when the economy starts to go under. When that unfortunate dawn comes, the new hybrid Hyundai Elantra and its claimed 50 mpg will be there for us.
Twitter has revealed users accessing the site through Mozilla Firefox might have had their non-public information, like direct messages, stored in the browser for days after they logged off due to a cache bug.
Recently Facebook, Reddit, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube committed to removing coronavirus-related misinformation from their platforms.
One good thing about being forced to stay inside your house because of a virus is that it gives you a chance to really reflect on things and finally, perhaps for the first time ever, see things as they really are. For me, this has been the realisation that the…
Making movies and TV can often be a secretive business—especially in nerdy genre fields where fans are eager to learn the ins and outs of production as soon as they can. Sometimes, that means a bit of skullduggery and that even actors don’t know the parts they’re truly auditioning for….
Supermarket groups Coles and Woolworths are reportedly planning to raise tap-and-go limits to $200 in an effort to increase contactless payment across their stores. PINs will not be required for these transactions.
Apple appears to be loosening up its policies around in-app purchases that have come under fire from third-party services and antitrust regulators over what’s come to be known as the “Apple tax.” An agreement between Apple and Amazon will now allow users to purchase movies and TV shows from their…
