James Whitbrook
With all the advanced health features that smartwatch makers keep rolling out, it’s easy to forget that many people aren’t looking for anything more than notifications, good battery life, and basic fitness-tracking. Unfortunately, if that’s all you want, your options are either bland fitness trackers or chintzy smartwatches that look…
New research released Wednesday underscores the role of obesity in type 2 diabetes. It suggests that obesity plays a major factor in up to half of new diabetes cases that occur annually in the U.S.
Audi first showed off the E-Tron GT as a concept three years ago, and today the all-electric grand tourer is finally making its formal production debut. If it looks familiar, that’s by design.
You’ve probably heard the conversation around 8K a lot lately, and it’s not likely to die down anytime soon. While many will point to a lack of content at that resolution, sophisticated upscaling technology will have future-proofers and early adopters firmly on the 8K train. So if you’re looking to…
With so many passwords to remember its easy to simply save them to your browser. Here’s why you need to cut it out immediately.
It’s been almost a year since many workplaces transitioned away from face-to-face meetings to predominantly remote conferencing. And still, people often struggle with finicky videoconferencing. Few, however, have problems as breathtaking as a lawyer who appeared at a remote court hearing with a cat filter. On Monday, lawyer Rod Ponton…
Last year the government announced a fibre NBN upgrade for half the network by 2023. We now know which suburbs are next in line.
With so much of our life relying on being online, there is truly nothing more frustrating that slow internet. Having a speedy service is essential, but the faster a NBN plan is, the more it’ll cost you. Thankfully, plenty of NBN providers offer regular discounts on their plans, and you…
It’s a pretty common refrain among gearheads to complain about how all modern cars look the same. And, sure, you can absolutely make a valid argument that they do, and go to any parking lot and wave your arm over the sea of nearly indistinguishable grayscale SUVs, but if it…
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, Gizmodo’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This week, everything changes when the fire nation rolls for initiative, Magic: The Gathering celebrates Black History Month, and Games Workshop figures out another way to ease you into the worlds of Warhammer.
Alexander Freed’s Alphabet Squadron trilogy has given us a window into the complex political landscape left behind after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, through the lens of damaged fighter pilot veterans of the galactic civil war. Now things are coming to a head in its last chapter, and the…
Few 1-year-olds are as intrepid explorers as NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter. The space probe is already 222 million kilometres from Earth and is about to take baby’s first trip behind the Sun.
GameStop’s stock has fallen back to something like a reasonable price and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims he lost about $US700,000 ($906,080), but the future of meme stocks is not yet written. And at least one New York-based quantitative fund seems to think there’s still a glimmer of gold…
The newest show to join the CW’s Arrowverse, Superman & Lois, just dropped a few new details at the Television Critics Awards press tour, and they range from intriguing to “huh, OK.” Suffice it to say, the Kent-Lane family has more to deal with than just saving the world.
For a romantic night out during the pandemic, consider laying out a picnic blanket in a park to count the stars. As an added bonus, your little date could help see if covid-19 lockdowns have impacted light pollution.
Donald Trump is a real jack of all noxious trades. It turns out that as he was rolling back environmental policies and overseeing an endless stream of noxious climate misinformation as president, one of our dear former leader’s hotels has also been ignoring clean water protections. A multi-faceted pollution king!
I’m no thief, but I am smart enough to realise that, if you’re going to steal a car, and you hope to get away with it, you’re probably going to want to jack something common. You know, that way you can blend in with the crowd. But some imbecile in…
Most Magic: The Gathering (MTG) players will be aware of the mystique of Black Lotus. The rarest card the game has ever seen, it was a mere flash in the pan in terms of how long it was actually in circulation. But it’s still considered to be incredibly special — here’s why.
Years after Apple Watch added irregular heartbeat rhythm notifications, the feature has finally been approved for use in Australia.
For the most part, Twitter is a trash heap. We all know this. But once in a while, something kind of cool happens, like when a hugely successful filmmaker decides to answer a bunch of interesting fan questions. And that happened today.
Who among us don’t love a good theme park ride? Big roller coasters, scary haunted houses, serene river rides, everyone has a favourite. In the new film Jumbo, however, that love of theme park rides gets taken to a whole new level: the main character literally falls in love with…
The next time you see a drone buzzing overhead, try to keep an open mind about these goofy, oversized R/C planes. Some are actually doing incredible work.
A new update to Raspberry Pi OS, previously known as Raspbian, has put open-source fans on edge. Why? The new OS is pinging Microsoft servers every time the user updates their apps or the OS itself.
At long last, Amazon has a unionisation vote on its hands, the first and only since 2014. Today, 5,800 Alabama warehouse workers have been sent mail-in ballots and can begin voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). If they vote in favour, RWDSU will…
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole. Black holes – regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape – are a hot topic in the news these days. Half of…
My ex was the first person to tell me about Q. This was near the end of 2016, and we were in the beginning stages of our relationship. I took it as us having the same, passive interest in conspiracy theories. The kind of interest where you go, “LOL sounds…
Mission: Impossible 7 resumes production with some vague new teases. Godzilla gets the upper hand in new Godzilla vs. Kong footage. Simu Liu will keep hyping up the Shang-Chi trailer until morale improves. Plus, what’s coming on Clarice, and Lana Condor gets ghostly for a new Netflix show. Spoilers away!
Having thoroughly conquered the galaxy of animated sci-fi comedy with Rick and Morty, Dan Harmon is taking on mythology with a new cartoon set in ancient Greece, set to debut on Fox in 2022.
Tesla has purchased $US1.5 ($2) billion in bitcoin, according to its latest SEC filing on Monday. The electric car company made the purchase sometime since January 2021, though the filing doesn’t say what price the company locked into.
A new study out Monday is the latest to suggest that climate change is already making people’s lives worse, this time for those allergic to pollen. The findings indicate show pollen season in North America has gotten measurably longer and that pollen has become more plentiful over the past three…
The overwhelming economic consensus is that coal is out, renewables are in. Yet one company, associated with the Navajo Nation, doesn’t seem to have gotten the message — and may be weighing the tribe down with more coal baggage as the rest of the country moves on.
Folks with tiny hands have been clamouring for a smaller smartphone for years, and in 2020, Apple finally delivered with the iPhone 12 Mini. Except it looks like Apple might stop manufacturing its littlest phone due to less-than-stellar sales.
