Max Finkel
There is entirely too much content out there—so much so that plenty of folks find it quite literally overwhelming. And trying to keep track of all those horror movies and melodramatic reality shows and whodunnits starring Chris Evans in a cable knit sweater (oh OK, fine. There’s only one of…
Getting stuck in the mud is seldom noteworthy. But every once in a while someone gets their vehicle so prodigiously stuck, in a place that is so preposterously far from civilisation, in the nastiest and slipperiest mud imaginable, that it draws the attention of people from all over. Such is…
The company delivering the National Broadband Network has offered an apology to property owners unhappy with the installation of equipment, as criticism mounts about the rollout of the network. Stanmore resident Daniel Ribarovski said NBN Co’s contractors dug up the front yard of his 1880s Victorian terrace while he was…
A new Star Wars movie is out, and for better or worse, that always means there’s also a host of new tie-in material released which can explain or clarify some questions left lingering after the credits rolled. The Rise of Skywalker is no exception, and its own “Visual Dictionary” guidebook…
Violent weather has become one of the hallmarks of modern life as climate change pushes our planet into a new, more volatile state. And unfortunately, 2019 was a painful reminder of that.
Wait, where’s Rose? As anyone keeping up with the state of Star Wars discourse has undoubtedly heard, Rose Tico, the Resistance engineer introduced in The Last Jedi and played by Kelly Marie Tran, has a very small amount of screen time in The Rise of Skywalker. Like, compared to her…
Have you hugged the Star Wars nerd in your life lately? Because they’re probably far, far more stressed out than is reasonable. Such is the nature of fandom, that it can end up with a lot of unnecessary frustration when something you love ends up differently than you imagined, or…
Are you tired of all these Galaxy S11 rumours yet? Well too damn bad. Because it looks like we’re rounding out the year with a purported first look at the Samsung flagship’s final camera configuration following other leaked details about its size and, possibly, a new naming convention to match…
Is anyone surprised? Anyone? Maybe one of Moff Gideon’s poor bumbling Stormtroopers.
I can’t believe I published our hotly-anticipated 2019 Year In Droids Recap on Monday, only to have the biggest fucking droid-related news of the year happen after the fact. Yes, my fellow dorks and associated dipshits, I’m talking about the stunning reveal of an R2 droid with humanoid-style limbs as…
Scientific societies and publishers are angry about a rumour that a White House executive order might make all federally-funded research open access.
Technologists have long speculated on the privacy implications of largely ungoverned, camera-enabled vehicle fleets roaming the roads of America. Now we’ve finally bumped up against the tip of that particularly worrying iceberg.
People dealing with painful migraines will soon have a new treatment available. This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a unique drug meant to shorten acute migraine episodes. It’s the latest treatment for a condition that’s historically had few.
Ring and its parent company, Amazon, are facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations of negligence, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment for the allegedly lax security standards that have left thousands of cameras vulnerable to hacking. This comes on the heels of several high-profile reports about security…
When Google announced the Pixel 4, one of the things we were most excited for was the new Google Recorder app. It could transcribe your recordings live and offline! Around the world, journalists, students, and anyone who might need meeting transcripts raised their eyes heavenward and whispered a quiet “Thank…
There are few things as soothing as desert snow, the rough and spiky landscape smoothed over by a layer of frozen flakes. That’s exactly what happened this week in Joshua Tree National Park after an extremely powerful storm ripped across the region.
Tears, cheers, shock, and awe. The season finale of The Mandalorian had all that and more, resulting in almost certainly the show’s best episode.
Local authorities are dumbfounded by a flock of drones that recently began performing nighttime flights over northeast Colorado with no apparent purpose or operators (at least, none they’ve been able to identify so far).
From its indecisiveness on SUVs to its rigid stance on never making a pink car, Ferrari is a perplexing company. But the company is getting ever so slightly closer to the mark in terms of whom it’s openly marketing its different models toward, because it’s at least hinting that it…
People riding electric-powered bikes are more likely to risk serious injury than those on conventional bikes and motorised scooters, according to a recent study. But e-scooters have their own unique health risks, too.
Despite the privacy concerns, labour strikes, and reports that Amazon is selling literal trash on its platform”in the face of all of the myriad reasons shoppers should have avoided buying through Amazon this year”the company still made a killing this season.
All Netflix subscribers have had the experience of being suddenly accosted by the opening moments of the next episode of a series literally seconds after the final scene of the previous episode has ended, because the streaming service wants nothing more than to keep people watching whatever it is that…
“If we don’t get it, shut it down” is a staple call-and-response of worker protests for good reason. Even without a clear antecedent, the meaning is obvious to bosses: these are out demands. Meet them, or you may find the usual means of extracting profit difficult. This week, Amazon saw…
A woman’s years-long beauty regimen caused severe mercury poisoning and irreversible neurological damage, say her doctors in a recent case report published by the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention this month.
Peacock is getting more movies. Unfortunately, not all of them will be great.
In an ideal world, you’ll connect all of your devices up to fast, free-flowing wifi wherever you happen to be, but away from home you’ll often run into restrictions: Maybe only a certain number of devices can be connected per user, or maybe wired Ethernet access is free but wifi…
Christmas Island is not just a Jimmy Buffett song, it’s a real place! And the biggest recurring event there is not Jesus’ birthday, it’s an annual red crab migration. The crustaceans have to cross roads in big numbers, putting them at high risk of being squished by cars. Hence, Chris…
So here we are on another Boxing Day. You may only just be waking up from your food coma, but you can never be too full to feast your eyes on the following Boxing Day sales. Whether you’re into gaming, food, technology or ambitiously athletic rumpy, you’ll find a bargain…
It’s time to look ahead to the coming year and all things that will be happening in space exploration. With new missions to Mars, a probe returning to Earth with samples taken from an asteroid, and even more batches of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites going into orbit, it’s going to…
“˜Tis the season for three-hour movies”but we’ve got five shorts that won’t be nearly as demanding on your attention span this holiday season. Two are seasonally-appropriate (including a film that’s debuting on Gizmodo!), but we’ve also got vampires, animated animals, and a new episode of The Kirlian Frequency for you…
It’s that special time of year when we all have a chance to look forward to all the shows set to return in the coming months, buzz around upcoming movies is reaching new levels of intensity, and for some reason, studios decide to try and work real-world Earth holiday traditions…
Put aside any notions that research is a dull cycle of routine. For scientists who do field work, collecting data means taking risks, exploring remote areas, sleeping outside, and encountering wild animals and extreme weather.
At least two tech review sites are considering plans to rescind their recommendations of Ring home surveillance cameras, a leading digital-rights organisation announced this week.
