Samsung and Mastercard are officially teaming up on a credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced on Thursday. These so-called “biometric cards” will come baked in with a “several key discrete chips” from Samsung’s side, and are planned to be compatible with any point of sale (POS) terminal,…
Spotify and Apple Music are the two biggest players in the streaming music game, but thanks to a new deal valued at $US297 ($381) million, Square is looking to change that tune by acquiring a majority stake in Tidal.
Name the greatest sci-fi film franchises ever made. Star Wars. Star Trek. Aliens. Back to the Future. Planet of the Apes. There are others but it’s not a very long list. And yet, these days, any such list would almost certainly be incomplete without World of Tomorrow.
Seresto, a popular flea collar produced by the company Elanco Animal Health, has been tied to over 1,600 pet deaths in the U.S. alone since 2012, according to a new investigation by USA Today. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates flea collars and any other pet treatment containing…
I probably spend way too much time on online car auction sites looking at cars I can’t afford. Most recently I was looking at a sweet Kei fire engine and boat combo when I spotted a rough Dodge Caravan with a high bid for its condition. Why were people willing…
Here at Giz we love cars, and know you do too. From Teslas to when people do dumb shit on Aussie roads, we’re all over it. So now we’d like to know some stuff about your car. Since we can’t really leave the country at the moment, cars have become…
I love when enthusiasts get crafty with their vehicles. Wild RV builds often catch my eye, but motorcyclists also come up with some awesome modifications. A viral video recently tipped off the internet to fun-loving builders dropping personal watercraft shells onto their scooters. They are glorious.
More companies affected by Australia’s controversial proposed Online Safety Act are voicing their concerns with the legislation with Facebook and Twitter now joining Google in speaking out. The Online Safety Act is a bill before the Parliament that seeks to expand the powers of the eSafety Commissioner with the hopes…
Six years ago Google was going hard on its Cardboard VR contraptions. But now that journey has come to an end with the company ceasing sales.
This robot is a hero, and should be celebrated as such.
Remember two months ago when all you really knew about Disney+’s WandaVision was it had something to do with classic sitcoms? That was obviously a massive undersell, and yet we’re currently in a similarly clueless place with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Marvel’s next streaming series is just a…
Over two years ago ECG features were introduced to the Apple Watch, but not in Australia. That has finally changed. Electrocardiography, or ECG, functions were first introduced to the Apple Watch in September 2018. This allowed the devices to monitor low heart rate detection and irregularities. While it’s certainly not…
If you were planning to fly to Japan to attend the Olympics, love the optimism! But most likely, your plans have been spoiled because we are, in fact, still in a global pandemic. While the final ruling has not yet been announced, the paper Mainichi reported today that a source…
It’s an unfortunate truth that snake oil salesmen lurk behind every corner of the internet, waiting for the next conspiracy or wellness fad so they can swoop in with cure-all wares and rob people of their hard-earned cash. It’s also true that people generally fear the unknown — and new…
After a brief moment of hype-driven confusion as to how many episodes WandaVision’s debut season would ultimately clock in at, the series is coming to a close this week with a ninth chapter that’s likely to answer just as many questions as it leaves standing about the life of Wanda…
Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. For a blessed moment it seemed we might get a break from conservative bitching and moaning about unfairness. No such luck.
Apple’s Find My app has long been a handy way of keeping track of your iPhone, MacBook, and other Apple devices, but in the most recent iOS 1.5 beta, Apple looks to be expanding item-tracking to a wider range of non-Apple products.
Human fingerprints are all over the world’s freshwater. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature shows that while human-controlled freshwater sources make up a minimal portion of the world’s ponds, lakes, and rivers, they are responsible more than half of all changes to the Earth’s water system.
Will people actually be staying in space hotels by 2027? That’s the promise of Orbital Assembly and Voyager Station, space startups that got a lot of headlines this week. But there are plenty of sceptics that space hotels could become a reality for Americans who are still waiting on universal…
Even if you’ve been using Google Chrome since it first rolled out back in 2008, the browser is capable of some tricks you may have not discovered yet. Google adds new features on a regular basis, while older features get lost and forgotten about if you’re not using them every…
At this point in time, Apple have more or less become the go-to brand when it comes to tablets. While the various iPads aren’t bad products, the hefty price tags attached to them can give one pause. If you want a tablet that’s going to be used by the entire…
A marketing collective has realised all our deepest fears by strapping a paintball gun to Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot.
I’m not sure if you’ve been keeping up with the news, and if you haven’t, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the thriving Roman city of Pompeii was completely buried under ash from the eruption of Mt.Vesuvius in 79 CE. Terrible, right? I probably…
Between states across the U.S. now vaccinating people against covid-19, and the fact that many aspects of everyday society — like movies being released — only ever really slowed during the ongoing pandemic, there’s a way in which some people have begun to think things might be returning to “normal.”…
Last Thursday, it was In the Lost Lands. Today, it’s Sandkings. Tomorrow: Every other non-novel George R.R. Martin has ever written?
It looks like Elon Musk has his sights set on his own town in Texas. The Tesla CEO tweeted on Wednesday morning about creating a city called ‘Starbase’ in Texas. Elon Musk is all over Texas SpaceX already has a significant presence in Texas, with a rocket testing site in…
I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I tend to have a number of slow-simmering automotive research projects bubbling around, often unattended. One of these has been my quest to figure out the origin of one of my favourite headlamp units in all of motoring: the sloping,…
Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly seeking the company’s permission to examine the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are visible or granted the most prominence in each Facebook user’s feed.
Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his upcoming smashup…
When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if your drown was small enough to accidentally swallow?
Today at Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, the tech giant revealed a bold glimpse at the future of digital collaboration with Mesh, a new mixed reality experience set to shape how people work and socialise online.
What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don’t know how truly difficult a game can be. The deceptively simple running game is so challenging to master that even an AI trained using machine learning still only…
The streaming video business is booming, and while that makes it easier to access tons of content, for some companies like Sony, it makes it less attractive to manage digital storefronts, so at the end of August, Sony is disabling the ability to buy on-demand videos in the PlayStation Store.
