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…
When car enthusiasts think track cars, Bugatti probably isn’t the first marque that comes to mind. They’re fast, sure, buy they’re also heavy. Those W16 engines move a lot of weight to achieve the speeds they do. So, what would happen if Bugatti decided to build, you know, something not…
As if this Hunter Biden smear campaign couldn’t be more clearly manufactured, Martin Aspen, the author behind a viral phony “intelligence” document about the Vice President’s son that made it to Trump’s inner circle, is not the Swiss security analyst he claims to be. Namely because Martin Aspen doesn’t exist….
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PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan discussed the future of VR gaming in a recent interview, speculating its mainstream adoption was a long way off.
Apple has updated its trade-in scheme following the release of the new iPhone 12 models and there are some pretty good deals for those looking to make cash from their old devices. Apple’s trade-in promotion allows customers to get credit towards their next purchase by mailing or bringing in their…
Yoko Ono once noted: “people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them”. Witches were maligned for centuries because of their perceived dark power and influence — but could this fear have stemmed from their commercial success? Witches have been savvy business women since the 13th…
Fear may be a path to the Dark Side but it’s not something most people associate with Star Wars. When you think Star Wars you think sweeping sci-fi adventure or maybe even laid back Western swagger. You rarely think of nail-biting dread or shocking jump scares. They’re in there though…
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There’s no bowl of ramen quite like Yakuza‘s. About a week ago, Xbox Australia announced probably the most delectable promo for a next-gen game yet: Rags to Riches, a $400 bowl of ramen topped with a golden lobster. It was a tie-in for the Western release of Yakuza: Like a…
We’ve reviewed a ton of laptops and played around with even more. While we have an entire guide dedicated to laptops, we know some people just want to game and so no matter your budget, we’ve curated some of the best gaming laptops currently on the market too. Many of…
Truth Seekers, a new series whose co-creators and stars include noted nerds Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), hits Amazon tomorrow. It would be a welcome arrival any time of year, but since it’s all about the paranormal (and the humans who’re obsessed with it), it’s the…
Phones are expensive. Most people upgrade every few generations, and they want a phone that will take great photos, support the latest software, and won’t shit the bed after just a couple years.
Black biologist Charles Henry Turner was doing groundbreaking research into animal cognition at the turn of the 20th century, yet his ideas never gained traction on account of racism and his seemingly radical viewpoint. Many concepts proposed by Turner are now accepted science, and a group of researchers to say…
In 1991, the Star Wars universe changed forever. After a few years of quiet, the Expanded Universe exploded in scope and reach, kicking off with a series of novels from Timothy Zahn that brought us the story of what happened after Return of the Jedi. With it came the rise…
This week, Star Trek: Discovery reunited the disparate halves of its cast for an emotional chance to take stock of their unprecedented situation. The crew has arrived in the future and is headed to the ancestral home of the Federation — but as we so often learn when we return…
A petition calling for a Royal Commission into Australia’s media diversity started by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been signed more times than any other e-petition in Australian history. Today, the Royal Commission to ensure a strong, diverse Australian news media e-petition reached more than 404,000 signatures, overtaking the…
We will remember 2020 as a year of crisis. COVID-19 hit Australia just as we were beginning to make sense of the horror bushfires and smoke of last summer, a sinister illustration of global warming’s threats. Since then, the news media has given centre stage to COVID-19 and its cascading…
If you’re like me, you probably spend an inordinate amount of time on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist looking at vehicles you could buy only if you sold your first-born or a nonessential organ. Occasionally you may just run into something weird. Maybe the find is a mystery Isuzu with a…
Ah, Bunnings. A warehouse paradise where you walk in for one thing and emerge with 2kg of potting mix, a window herb garden and some duct tape you’ll inevitably lose. While the noble Bunnings sausage is perhaps the most recognisable icon of this shrine to DIY, the Bunnings Jingle is…
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This year’s prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has been awarded to a team of Australian physicists for their contribution to a stellar, reality-bending discovery. Emeritus professor David Blair and professors Susan Scott, David McClellan and Peter Veitch from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery…
For those wondering just how many old Xbox games would run on the Xbox Series X and S, we have some good news. Most Xbox games will work just fine. Microsoft has confirmed that all almost Xbox, Xbox 360 and XBox One games will be compatible with the next gen…
Restrictions are lifting and establishments are reopening slowly across the country, particularly Victoria. While this is a cause for celebration for many, some may be worried about venturing back out into the ‘real world’ — and not just because of health fears. This post was originally published on May 20. …
We discovered this week just how big the PlayStation 5 is, and, well, it looks sort of like a basketball arena with its swoopy design and towers over even the heftiest consoles, like the Xbox One and the original Xbox. But what’s most clear about the PlayStation 5 is that…
Kal Cobalt is a disabled transman. Relying on accessibility devices when out in public means using accessible bathrooms, which means that Kobalt knows all too well that so-called accessible bathrooms are sometimes only “technically” accessible.
Like so many other series in production, Amazon’s The Wheel of Time was brought to a halt by the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. At this point, it doesn’t seem at all likely it’ll launch in 2020 the way it was originally meant to. That being said, The Wheel of…
Change is hard. I get that. Judging by the dismay on Twitter over the Gmail logo change, few people are happy with the multi-coloured M. Some have blamed the email logo change for missing important missives. Others complain it’s now visually indistinguishable from Google’s other app logos. To everyone in…
New research detected an intriguing change in the average body temperature of the Tsimane people, an indigenous foraging and farming group in the Bolivian Amazon that has recently started to interact more with industrialized communities. Over 16 years, the Tsimane have experienced a slight but rapid drop in body temperature…
After being kept on life support for arguably far too long, Flash will finally be sent to that big hard drive in the sky by the end of this year. To make the goodbye a little easier, Microsoft has released a new Windows update that purges Flash Player before its…
The trackball is a contentious kind of peripheral. Most people point to the mouse or the trackpad as superior ways to move a cursor across the screen, but for a small subset of nerds, myself included, there is nothing as gratifying or exact as a trackball. A flick of your…
Telstra has announced its expanding its international operations into Canada. Canuck you believe it. After operating in the Americas and Asia for over two decades, Telstra is pushing further north. As an FYI, Telstra Canada is in regards to internet service providing, as opposed to mobile connectivity. Telstra Canada is…
It’s the time of year where I would usually be waxing rhapsodic about the latest Huawei Mate series. But a lot has changed in the last year and a half. I didn’t expect the Huawei Mate 40 Pro to even come to Australia — especially after the last few releases…
While I was doing a bit of research this week for this extended vans post, I realised something I don’t believe I’d ever realised before: AMC never made a van. How could that be? A major (well, you know, close) U.S. automaker not even trying to get a taste of…
