The Pixel 4a 5G is an interesting phone, because on the outside it’s as plain as can be. But just like the Millennium Falcon, she’s got it where it counts. The Pixel 4a 5G is also somewhat awkwardly named, having more in common with the Pixel 5 than its smaller…
The Nissan Z Proto, 400Z, the 370Z update with the 298kW twin-turbo 3.0-litre VR30… whatever you want to call it, it’s now in America and it looks so much better out of the confines of Nissan’s Japanese press tour. It helps that it visited Chris Forsberg Racing, probably the best…
If an artist writes enough music, they’re going to eventually touch on a lot of subjects repeatedly. But it seems that for John Darnielle, songwriter, singer and creator of the Mountain Goats, that cars and driving are a constant thread through his work. Darnielle is incredibly prolific. He started recording…
This is one of those things I suspect all of us have wondered about at some point or another — does changing the air cleaner on your car actually give you the power boost you’re hoping for? I mean, it seems to make sense — let the engine breathe easier,…
In a rollercoaster conversation, Charlie Park, global category director of environmental care at Dyson, said that Dyson air purifiers can kill viruses and bacteria, like COVID-19, on contact. But then he followed that up with a pretty big but that means you absolutely should not rely on air purifiers to…
Birthdays can be a bittersweet time for anyone who’s lost a loved one. But when you’re as rich as Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are, there are things that you can do that us mere mortals can’t, like creating a hologram replica of your dead dad, for instance. On Friday…
Two of the five Republicans arrested on corruption charges involving former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder pleaded guilty on Thursday to racketeering. They’re the first to be convicted in the alleged $US60 ($86) million federal corruption scandal, which federal prosecutors are already calling one of the largest pay-to-play scandals in…
Let’s check in on Roborace, the robot-driver race car series in development, shall we?
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With Flash shutting down, an early 2000s favourite could be on the verge of shutting down.
It’s time to get horrifying. Blumhouse has unveiled a whole new slate of frights to get us through 2021, featuring several more “Welcome to the Blumhouse” flicks, a new teaser for Halloween Kills, and a fifth Insidious movie — this one directed by franchise star Patrick Wilson himself.
Y: The Last Man has had a long, long, long journey to a screen near you and now, finally, it’s actually happening. FX announced that the newly reimagined Y: The Last Man TV series has begun production in Toronto, and a few new cast members are along for the ride.
You may remember the Rejuvenique Facial Toning Mask from creepy infomercials in 1999 starring Linda Evans. “If you get the idea of what doing eight situps a second would do for your stomach, you have an idea what Rejuvenique would do for your face,” a smarmy salesman tells Evans, in…
Paramount Pictures’ Spell — from director Mark Tonderai — is a film that sets out to exist in a number of emotional spaces while terrifying you with a story about how simultaneously horrific and freeing homecomings can be. While the film doesn’t quite accomplish all of its goals, it does manage…
Pregnancy tests these days can get surprisingly high tech — and may even be rigged to play Doom. It’s also an unfortunate reality that these high-tech tests aren’t always accessible for the visually impaired. Because most rely on digital screens, blind or partially sighted people often have to ask someone…
When the scientists who warned the world last year that 1 million species face extinction issue a new warning about the “pandemic era,” we should probably listen.
The internet has pretty much turned the entire world into cranky roommates, with everyone knowing everyone’s business all the time. While sometimes this can be maddening, other times I kind of appreciate the fact that any major claim will be subjected to truly remarkable levels of scrutiny. This goes for…
There is nothing quite like that feeling of dancing on the fine edge of adhesion. Getting a corner just perfectly right, braking straight and true, finding an early apex, and then powersliding out the other side. There are so many mechanical, chemical, historical, and mental forces at play here to…
Australia’s metadata retentions laws are making it too easy for too many people to access Australian’s data without warrant, according to a review of the controversial scheme. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has published a report that reviews how the scheme, first implemented in 2015, has been…
At this point, you probably already know that the Lexus GX is for the most part a 120-series Toyota Prado, and that makes it a pretty solid starting point for an off-road project. You may not know that I have one, so I’m going to walk you through my truck…
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Aussie Broadband just connected its first customer to its very own private ‘dark’ fibre network. And we’re pretty jealous about the available speeds. Private Aussie Broadband fibre network Aussie Broadband’s fibre network (which is called ‘dark fibre’) is a 20km loop that includes the Melbourne CBD as well as port…
Finally, a rare bit of good news.
Folks, I have heard enough of the bad remote discourse. Let’s settle this debate.
Early data from an ongoing study in the UK is setting off a wave of alarm over the pandemic this week. It found evidence that levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 took a sharp plunge in England’s general population during the summer, prompting fears that immunity to covid-19 may start to…
At least seven people were hospitalised after Donald Trump threw a rally at Nebraska’s Eppley Airfield near Omaha in freezing temperatures on Tuesday night. The president promptly jetted off afterward, leaving thousands of attendees in hours-long lines for campaign buses to return them to the parking lot, leading several exposed…
André Øvredal has an update on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sequel. Disney+’s Moon Knight show has seemingly found its director. Hasbro’s bold new Power Rangers reboot has tapped a writer. Plus, a new look at Freaky, and what’s to come on Soulmates and Moonbase 8. To…
As Halloween approaches, it is paramount that we all take a moment to remember — or discover — Tim Curry’s “Halloween Song” from The Worst Witch. Since HBO aired its extremely low-budget, TV movie adaptation of Jill Murphy’s children’s books in 1986, it has remained one of the most wonderful,…
They’re tiny, they’re toony, they’re all a little, well, Looney Tunes. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Tiny Toons Looniversity, the latest ‘90s animated series revival from executive producer Steven Spielberg.
AMD put on one hell of a show-stopper when it revealed all the details about its next-gen processors earlier this month. And it’s done it again with its full-reveal of its next-gen graphics cards today. This may very well be the generation of AMD hardware that finally puts it neck-and-neck…
As a Climate Person, I strongly believe we urgently need to electrify everything and ditch natural gas completely. The problem is, I love my gas stove. I find the heat from an electric stove’s coils basically impossible to control — last time I used one, I burned a beautiful pan…
While we’re all pretty much done fawning over the 2022 Hummer EV revealed by GMC last week, the automaker has released early design proposals that show different versions of the electric pickup truck we almost got.
Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman led 1995’s Casper, a film that mixed live-action and CGI that also crossed genres. It was comedy! It was fantasy! It was sci-fi! And, if you were a tween, it was also a very complicated romance. But enough about ghost kisses, let’s talk about the…
Apple Watches can track a lot of things in your life: your heart rate, how many steps you take and how you’re sleeping. And now it’s being used to track when someone’s life abruptly ended. In the past, murder trials have used data from smart devices. And now, they’re using…
In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally the question arises: What is the…
