What’s that zipping across the Sumida River in Tokyo, Japan? Behold, the zipper boat.
Millie Bobby Brown has joined a new fantasy adventure at Netflix. Lionsgate has nabbed a new ‘80s-inspired slasher in Video Nasty. Jason Blum gives us our occasional “yes, Spawn’s still happening” update. Plus, the CW’s run of Swamp Thing continues. Spoilers away!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s fourth season saw Alyson Hannigan’s Willow Rosenberg tap into new depths of her burgeoning magical abilities and begin to come into her own as a young queer woman. But looking back on the beloved series, Hannigan now thinks that her character should have become romantically involved…
Responding to demands from consumers for “an Alexa, but make it talk even more,” Amazon announced on Wednesday that its latest digital assistant model will be able to infer a user’s “latent goals,” and will use those to pose follow-up questions to users.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting this Saturday for the launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, in what is expected to be the first of many regularly scheduled crew flights to space from U.S. soil. Here’s what you need to know about this historic mission and how you’ll…
The next major update for macOS is here, and Big Sur brings with it a bunch of new features as well as a significant revamp on the visual side. These are 11 of the most significant upgrades that enable you to do more with your Mac, once you’ve downloaded and…
Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ series, WandaVision is coming. Soon even. Just not as soon as we’d hoped.
Svalbard, Norway, is home to the world’s doomsday seed vault because it’s so cold. But the climate crisis is changing that calculation.
There are a lot of music streaming services out there, but chances are you probably fall into one of three camps: Spotify, Apple Music, or Pandora. A few months ago, Sonos tossed its hat into the ring, launching a free streaming radio service called Sonos Radio. Today, it’s expanding that…
Pfizer and BioNTech have just released interim results of their COVID-19 vaccine trial. Although it is not the only vaccine in the late stages of testing, the large size and careful design of the trial, not to mention the promising results, have caused understandable enthusiasm around the world. As we…
Build your next gaming PC with a little smart shopping and planning.
Since early 2020 Vodafone has been testing 5G in Parramatta. We hadn’t heard a whole lot about it, but as it turns out the telco started quietly rolling it out to other areas. Here are the suburbs that now have access. Vodafone 5G This is the first significant step we…
Kevin Rudd’s campaign to call a royal commission into media diversity in Australia broke records. Even still, there was a near-zero chance that it was going to happen. But now, it looks like the former prime minister will a very good consolation prize. On Wednesday, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young successfully…
Spot is a very good boy, with a very important job.
Google rolled out Chrome version 86.0.4240.198 on Wednesday in response to two zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in the wild — the fourth and fifth security flaws discovered in the browser in the last three weeks alone.
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is poised to give the much-maligned team of antiheroic baddies a second shot at life on both the big and small screens, as John Cena’s overzealous Peacemaker character is the centre in a spinoff series set within the same universe. But a character like the…
For the most part, George Lucas has stayed fairly quiet about his own future plans for Star Wars before selling off Lucasfilm and the franchise to Disney. We’ve had teases here and there, but in a new interview, Lucas lifted the lid even further on what could’ve been Star Wars…
Over the past few years we have seen a plethora of incredibly impressive phone cameras. The vast majority of those have been of the Android persuasion. Huawei. Oppo. Google Pixel. All of these brands continue to produce truly spectacular, industry-leading photography. And yet I’ve found myself reaching for the iPhone…
Until now, Nanoleaf has been best known for those fancy RGB-lit triangles, squares, and hexagons that show up in the background of seemingly every YouTuber’s videos. But starting this week, Nanoleaf is entering the world of mainstream smart lighting with its affordable Essentials Line.
An extensive survey of deep waters off the coast of Australia has resulted in a trove of bigfin squid sightings. And by trove, we mean the detection of five individuals — these deep-sea creatures are exceptionally rare, so any new observations are quite valuable to scientists.
There are few things in this wretched world more glorious than a perfectly smoked brisket. That’s doubly true when travelling to Texas for the real thing — or, hell, even going to a restaurant — is either impossible or could possibly kill you. Thanks to the proliferation of home-smoking tech,…
The full contents of the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the U.S. have been revealed, and they’re unsurprisingly terrifying. On Tuesday, Washington state officials announced they found over 500 Asian giant hornets in the nest, including dozens of not-yet-fertile queens that were primed to mate, wait out the winter,…
Last week, I kindly asked then-Tropical Storm Eta to go away because it was clearly drunk. It did not listen.
Angela Bassett will return for the next two Missions Impossible. Freakazoid is back…on Teen Titans Go!? HBO has cancelled its Stephen King adaptation The Outsider, but there’s hope it might live. Plus, there’s good news for The Umbrella Academy. Spoilers now!
Almost every other automaker is out here talking about how much they’re doing with electric cars, Hyundai this week was like: That’s cool and all but how about good old SPORTINESS and PERFORMANCE.
Genetic engineering has already cemented itself as an invaluable tool for studying gene functions in organisms. Our new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, now demonstrates how gene editing can be used to pinpoint genes involved in corals’ ability to withstand heat stress. A better…
The Matrix 4 is set for release in 2021, but we still don’t know a whole lot about the upcoming sequel.
Another argument for throwing your Ring doorbell into a cement mixer: It might catch your house on fire.
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Updated 2PM AEDT: Microsoft says ‘we back‘. Microsoft’s Outlook, OneDrive and other Office365 products are having big problems this morning as users report being unable to access their products. On Wednesday morning Australia time, people began noticing they were receiving errors when they were trying to access their emails hosted…
Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such Curtin University building, the Legacy Living Lab in Fremantle, reduces construction waste and cuts emissions to almost a tenth…
Circles.Life is a little-known telco with a questionable name choice. But they’re running real hectic SIM-only plan deal for Click Frenzy right now. For $28 a month you get a whopping 100GB data, and you don’t even need to sign a contract. This article has been updated since its original…
Like most major comic book conventions in North America, Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled this year in response to the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Though the virus is still raging in the U.S., con producer ReedPop is confident that things will return to normal by next Northern Hemisphere winter.
This is not the time to let your guard down if you live in the U.S.
