As usual, there is drama in the cryptocurrency community. Someone claiming to be the founder of Bitcoin is claiming copyright over its white paper and the governments of Estonia and Colombia are trying to do something about it. Last week, lawyers on Craig Wright’s behalf began sending copyright infringement notices…
Huawei might be looking to sell off its high-end P and Mate series of phones. But the company denies this is happening. Rumours Say Huawei will sell the P and Mate series As first reported by Reuters, Huawei is said to be in the early stages of selling off its…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that one of the garbage barges helping clear the federal Superfund site in Brooklyn’s infamous Gowanus Canal of toxic waste has itself sunk.
Alberta Inquiry Pays $36,000 for Washed-Up Climate Denial Talking Points Written by a School Teacher
Consulting is a lucrative business if you can get it. Doubly so if you can traffic in conspiracy theories with no public accountability.
A team of scientists demonstrated something back in 2019 that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth on average.
An unusual mortality event of grey whales off the coast of Mexico is disturbingly persistent, according to a study published this week in the Marine Ecology Progress Series. The die-off began in 2019, and the grey whale death count is currently at 384, though the actual number may be higher.
Last October, Disney revealed the first trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, and it looked pretty swell. What was revealed was an Asian-inspired fantasy movie felt very Avatar: The Last Airbender, minus bending but plus dragons. This new trailer, however, takes Raya out of Avatar’s shadow to reveal what…
So far, Marvel’s WandaVision has very much been Wanda Maximoff’s show and a testament to how the studio was sorely under-utilising her in its movies. But it’s also been a very quirky character study of Paul Bettany’s Vision, the increasingly human-like synthezoid who began his existence as a shared twinkle…
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day.
A recent phishing campaign by North Korean nation-state hackers successfully duped a number of security professionals who were involved in vulnerability research and development, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
As early as next year, these four men could make history by becoming members of the the first commercial crew to visit the International Space Station.
Sexually transmitted infections continue to be a major headache for Americans and their wallets, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. About one in five Americans in the U.S. were thought to carry an STI in 2018, while there were 26 million…
Stocks: They’re so random ???? these days.
Just when I was starting to eye the new MacBook Pro for its incredibly fast processing speeds, AMD just pulled me back to the Windows side with its Ryzen 9 5980HS. Like its latest desktop processors, AMD took advantage of its Zen 3 architecture and brought the same impressive performance…
Despite building a toy empire on interlocking plastic bricks, Lego hasn’t shied away from modern technologies. Lego’s video games have been immensely popular for years, and last year it introduced the first interactive Lego figure with Lego Super Mario. This year, the toymaker has partnered with Universal Music Group for…
No matter how many safety precautions they take, motorcycle riders are still about 28 times more likely than a car passenger to die in a crash due to the prone nature of the rider. The thing that people love about riding — the sensation of being open and close to…
Twitter announced on Monday that it had officially launched Birdwatch, a program designed to combat misinformation on the platform by deploying a small group of users to flag potentially misleading content.
The phone numbers (and corresponding site IDs) of some 500 million Facebook users now appear to be for sale on a dark web cybercrime forum.
We first met Camina Drummer in The Expanse’s second season, when she was introduced as Fred Johnson’s (Chad L. Coleman) security chief on Tycho Station. Though the character appears in the books, her role in the series has been expanded over the years — and now, in the show’s outstanding…
On Monday, Google released a few more details on its proposed tracking alternative to third-party cookies, a “privacy-first” technology that, from any angle, seems like just another way for the company to maintain its stranglehold on digital ad sales.
Smartwatches have added incredibly sophisticated health features in recent years, with the ability to take electrocardiograms to diagnose atrial fibrillation and monitor your blood oxygen levels. But if rumours are to be believed, the next iteration of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch and the Apple Watch Series 7 could attempt the holy…
A unique planetary system located 200 light-years from Earth hosts five exoplanets with orbits locked together in a repeating pattern, despite their very different sizes and densities. The discovery is challenging astronomers’ notions of the kinds of planetary systems that can exist and how they form.
A screen protector that does its job well is also a screen protector that you never see. It’s a product you want to be completely invisible, or maybe you don’t? A smartphone case is no longer the only way to personalise your device as a company has come up with…
Scientists found a 34-year-old grizzly bear in southwest Wyoming, identifying him by a mark on his lip made by biologists in 1989. That’s the oldest grizzly ever known in the Yellowstone region that includes parts of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Respect your elders.
While we’re all waiting for more of Geralt’s adventures on Netflix, the streamer is looking towards a much bigger future planned for its world of adaptations based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy saga. And one of its most interesting additions has just found its star.
Even more movies are facing delays into late 2021 (and out of it entirely). Colin Trevorrow teases the scale of Jurassic World: Dominion. The new Batwoman battles a familiar face. Plus, Neil Gaiman teases an important moment on the set of Sandman, and what’s to come in Black Lightning’s final…
Australia is in the midst of tropical cyclone season. As we write, a cyclone is forming off Western Australia’s Pilbara coast, and earlier in the week Queenslanders were bracing for a cyclone in the state’s far north (which thankfully, didn’t hit). Australia has always experienced cyclones. But here and around…
2020 may have been a year of serious financial decline, but rich people remained rich, and they all kept buying big fancy cars at auction. Out of the 10 most expensive cars that hit the auction block last year, Bugatti and Alfa Romeo dominated the list.
Although Apple has long acknowledged that its iPhone 12 lineup and MagSafe accessories may interfere with medical devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, it released additional guidance for people who use medical devices on Saturday. The message: Keep your iPhone 12 and MagSafe accessories a safe distance away from your…
Earlier this month Samsung unveiled its brands new Samsung Galaxy S21 range. It’s currently available for pre-order but isn’t supposed to go on sale yet. But it looks like devices are being sent out early to some lucky customers.
Cyberpunk 2077 is on the road to recovery, but you should hold off if you want to see the game at its best.
Biofuels are all the rage these days as companies look for natural and more sustainable ways to power race cars and aeroplanes. Boeing has joined the party now, too, with its promise that 100 per cent of its fleet will be running on biofuels by 2030.
Parler, a veritable breeding ground of far-right extremists, has arguably come under the most fire for its part in the Capitol riots, but let’s not forget that the internet is a big place, and violent radicalisation on the scale we saw on Jan. 6 doesn’t develop in a bubble. Case…
