Of all the grifts we came across in 2020, one of the most bizarre was SmartDOTS, a so-called “anti-radiation” device that promised to neutralise the electric and magnetic fields transmitted by devices like phones and laptops. Popping one of these round stickers onto these devices, the company promised, would leave…
Every year at CES there’s a new buzzword generously thrown around: last year it was 5G, and for 2021 it’s going to be Wi-Fi 6E. If you’ve recently upgraded to a Wi-Fi 6 router that’s really unfortunate because 6E promises to genuinely fix a lot of the bottlenecks caused by…
For a couple of years, Wi-Fi 6 was hyped as the solution to wireless networks that had become over-crowded with smartphones, computers, and countless smart home devices all demanding their slice of bandwidth. In 2020 we finally saw a big influx of Wi-Fi 6 devices, just in time for the…
American Gods spent trying to claw its way out of production hell before coming to Starz. Now, it’s one of the shows returning in 2021 after weathering the ongoing covid-19 pandemic that continues to devastate the entertainment industry. It’s almost miraculous to consider, given the on-set upheavals and exits that…
TCL is bringing multiple soundbars and new display technology to its home entertainment lineup this year.
Just a few years ago, truly wireless earbuds were few and far between. Today, there’s almost too many to choose from, and new offerings get quickly lost in the sea of earbuds if they don’t stand out. Edifier’s approach to making its new wireless buds distinctly different is a transparent…
It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said, there are still aspects of existence that Silicon Valley has yet to quantify (though not, I’m sure, for lack of trying). Calorie-burn might be one of these. While countless apps/devices…
San Francisco police are preparing for a potential pro-Trump protest at Twitter’s headquarters on Tuesday, despite the fact that most Twitter employees are currently working from home due to the covid-19 pandemic. The protest, which is being organised online at the website TheDonald.win and in private Facebook groups, was sparked…
The vast majority of things that get transported via truck are things that are, generally, smaller than the trucks that are transporting them. Sometimes, though, they’re bigger, much bigger, and that always makes for exciting visuals. And then there are those rare times where they’re so wildly oversized that nothing…
Let there be light – and so much more – with our guide to getting started with the Philips Hue light system.
Last week was a crazy week. But here at Gizmodo, we have found the perfect video to unwind and put a smile on your face, a construction vehicle with a dinosaur head!
We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450℃ (the temperature of an oven’s self-cleaning cycle) and an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide (96 per cent) with a density 90 times that of Earth’s. Venus is a very…
HP just announced a bunch of new laptops ahead of CES 2021 kicking off this week, including the HP Envy 14 and Elite Dragonfly G2. Here’s what else you can expect and when they will hit Australia. HP Elite Dragonfly G2 This follow up to the Dragonfly G1 is exciting….
To say I’ve been in a tough spot lately would probably be a bit of an understatement, but there’s something about the aimless drive that serves as a balm for the shittiest of days.
Pizza Hut’s latest Stuffed Crust invention is everything we’ve ever dreamed of.
Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition app has seen a spike in use as police track down the pro-Trump insurgents who descended on the Capitol on Wednesday. With so many of those idiots snapping selfies and livestreaming the raid as if it was a school field trip, I’m surprised police even needed…
WarnerMedia, the AT&T-owned parent company of Warner Bros.’ TV and movie studios, is signalling that it’s ready to move on after its Justice League investigation — but for actor Ray Fisher, it’s nowhere near over.
Get a look at the latest Purge movie, if the world outside your window wasn’t enough. Legends of Tomorrow adds a fearsome new regular. Riverdale’s time jump continues to get weirder. Plus, what’s to come when Snowpiercer returns, and another new look at Batwoman’s second origin. Spoilers now!
The third season of American Gods will be a departure, finding Shadow in the small, seemingly innocent town of Lakeline. It’s not innocent, and for Shadow this isn’t just a quiet getaway — it’s a chance for him to figure out who or what he really is, and what he…
So far, 21st-century tech hasn’t quite lived up to all that sci-fi tropes promised. But while everyone may not have flying cars or their own holodeck yet, you can now bet on drone races from your phone in certain states, and I think that’s pretty dang futuristic.
Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has called…
Oscar Isaac is (tentatively) attached to star in Disney’s upcoming Moon Knight series. Now, the project has added two additional directors to its lineup. A TV show usually needs more than one, you know.
Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe.
At this point, a sequel to The Goonies seems unlikely. What’s more likely would be some sort of modernised remake — and if that happened, it just might look like Finding ‘Ohana.
Not every superhero is getting the chance to fly. CW has announced that it’s choosing not to pick up the Arrow spinoff Green Arrow and the Canaries to series, meaning a key part of the Arrowverse will officially come to an end.
Elon Musk’s march towards either overseeing one of the biggest stock market bubble pops in recent history or being the guy who opens a solar-powered portal to Hell on Mars continues unabated: Tesla is now one of the country’s top five companies by market cap.
I find it exciting when a new laptop brand enters the gaming market. The space is a little crowded at the moment, sure, but it can be refreshing to review something new. In my experience, there’s usually some feature or some hardware combination that I haven’t seen before, or the…
On Friday, UK’s antitrust authority announced a new investigation into Google’s plan to end support for third party cookies in Chrome. The probe, it explained, is meant to determine whether the change “could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on Google’s ecosystem,” potentially choking out competing companies that…
The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them unpleasant, but it will also be remembered for being one of the fastest on record, due to our planet’s accelerating rate of spin. Should this trend continue, it could result in an unprecedented “negative leap second.”
On Friday, Dominion released the Kraken on former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell. For months, Powell has made numerous conspiratorial allegations against the voting machine manufacturer — in public and in court. Now, Dominion is accusing Powell of defamation and seeking $US1.3 ($2) billion in damages.
Normally, bathroom tech at CES tends to be an assortment of wacky toilets, bathroom fixtures with Alexa crammed in, and showerheads that help you save water. That’s still mostly true this year, but with CES 2021 going completely virtual due to the pandemic, Kohler’s showcase poses a timely question: What…
An industrious Far North Queenslander used a drone to fly his phone up into the air in order to send a message to save his stranded family from rising creek water. On Monday night, four adults and a six-month-old baby had travelled to look at Blencoe Falls, a stunning waterfall…
The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. Zero marginal cost, zero emissions energy is now a reality. Wind and solar are cheaper sources of new electricity than coal in most cases, putting significant pressure on the profitability of the inflexible, ageing coal generators. The only questions are when…
