In an 80-16 vote on Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to restore controversial surveillance tools used by the FBI in terrorism and espionage investigations. But the bill has at least one more hurdle to jump thanks to a series of changes implemented yesterday.
Entirely fair, frankly. Hand-drawn 2D animation? And like, with the state of the world right now? Hayao Miyazaki can do whatever he wants, including spend three years turning in 30-odd minutes of (presumably very gorgeous) animation with his team.
If (like me) you watched too much true crime TV in the 1990s, the Unsolved Mysteries theme is enough to spark some pleasingly bizarre memories—of aliens, psychics, ghostly phenomena and host Robert Stack, always there to insist that you (yes, you!) might be able to help solve that night’s string…
Almost a month after President Donald Trump threatened to block a $US10 ($15) billion emergency loan to the U.S. Postal Service unless it raised shipping prices on companies like Amazon, UPS, and FedEx, the USPS has decided to review its package delivery contracts, according to anonymous sources who spoke with the…
HBO Max nabs itself another Stephen King/Joe Hill project. Patrick Stewart says at least one major Star Trek: Picard character won’t be back for season two. Some familiar faces of the Rebellion may be in the Cassion Andor TV show. Plus, a look at what’s in store for Pat Dugan…
Many fans of Percy Jackson & the Olympians were less than thrilled with the big screen adaptation of Rick Riordan’s series—the author included. Now, after years of trying to get a new take on the fantasy saga, Riordan has announced that a television series is coming to Disney+.
Despite its promises to cut ties with the data generated by underage users on its platform, TikTok continues to be a privacy-violating nightmare—especially for kids.
An international operation led by Spanish authorities has arrested 18 members of a drug gang in Spain, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and Colombia that allegedly smuggled cocaine by embedding it in cardboard.
This is set to be the year renewables take off. A new report from the Energy Information Administration shows that electricity generation from renewables is finally set to surpass that of coal, a major milestone in the efforts to a clean energy economy. The coronavirus is helping drive this shift.
Earlier this year, Roku announced a neat, if expected, trick. By combining the already available Roku soundbar, sub, and the wireless stereo speakers, the company gave users the ability to create a seamless 5.1 audio solution that gives you a similar experience of something premium like a Sonos system, but…
The scientific community worldwide has mobilised with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output is staggering. Every day, hundreds of scientific papers about COVID-19 come out, in both traditional journals and non-peer-reviewed preprints. There’s already far more than any human could possibly keep up with,…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe now contains over 20 films, multiple television shows, spin-off shorts and more. As a newcomer, it can be overwhelming — and even revisiting your favourites can be a monumental task. But it is possible. Whether it’s by chronological order, release date or just watching the highlights,…
Has it really been five years since the post-apocalyptic off-road opera of Mad Max: Fury Road? Indeed, the eyeball-searingly beautiful movie about an angry post-apocalyptic convoy is just about five years old now. Entertainment writer Kyle Buchanan collected an oral history of how it came together for The New York…
COVIDsafe, Australia’s coronavirus contact tracing app, has just just gotten an update which addresses some bugs and privacy concerns. The update will also help with some of the background bluetooth problems that iOS devices have suffered with the app so far.
It’s not often that a car company gets to kill off a brand name twice. After retiring the Datsun name in 1986, it was brought back as Nissan’s brand for developing market cars in 2013. Now, just seven years later, it appears Nissan is killing it again. Make up your…
Last month Samsung released 28 new TVs across its 4K, Crystal UHD and Lifestyle ranges in Australia. It also announced its new 8K range, but we didn’t know what the prices would look like or when they would land. Well, the wait is now over. Here’s how much they cost…
Word from the streets of Liverpool is that the seagulls are finding lockdown as difficult as the humans, not because they’re also struggling to find anything interesting to watch on Netflix and have bollocksed up another attempt at sourdough; but because the lack of the usual human detritus is leaving…
The first named typhoon in the western Pacific this year has arrived, and it’s already roaring. Typhoon Vongfong formed on Tuesday and rapidly intensified into a fierce pinwheel of a storm streaking toward the Philippines.
Earlier this year, Dell refreshed the XPS 13 to great results, and now Dell is coming back to revamp the rest of its best line of laptops with the new XPS 15 and XPS 17.
Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh once said he hoped Google would be “selling products in high volumes in five years.” That was three years ago. After disappointing sales of the Pixel 4 and a recent shakeup within the Pixel team’s management, Google’s aspirations to become a major player in the…
Frogs in Myanmar are surprisingly dependent upon elephants, or rather, the tracks they leave behind. New research shows that water-filled elephant footprints provide an under-appreciated sanctuary for frogs to lay their eggs.
While it initially seemed as if a new adaptation of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles was set to make its way to U.S. streaming service Hulu, fate (read: AMC) apparently had other, more bewitching plans in mind.
While studying Europa’s magnetic field in 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft inadvertently collected evidence of watery plumes shooting out from the moon’s icy surface, according to new research.
The Justice Society of America is dead. Long live the Justice Society of America! DC Comics’ first superteam is one of its most iconic and convoluted mythoi, the nexus of the publisher’s approach to its own fictional history. Its members have been rebirthed, re-imagined, retconned, and revived endlessly since their inception,…
It’s always something with those darned New Mutants. Mergers, rumoured reshoots, global pandemics. Anything to keep the film out of theatres. And yet here we are again, with another release date.
Elon Musk wasn’t asking for permission. Quite the opposite, in fact. On Monday afternoon, the Tesla CEO told the California government to eat shit. He was reopening his factory and they could come cuff him if they wanted.
I think of all the cars that were designed and prototyped but not actually put into production, one of my favourites is Volkswagen’s 1969 EA 266 prototype, an incredible mid-engined marvel of small-car packaging. I wrote about it back in 2014, but now, thanks to our pals over at Car…
Somebody followed through on the objectively excellent idea to make a Bullitt Mustang tribute Ford dump truck, and well, here it is.
The government has now released the source code of its contact tracing app, COVIDSafe, but a developer has noted he’s hitting brick walls when it comes to reporting any bugs or flaws with the app.
I didn’t expect when I went to sleep last night to wake up with a nostalgia for 2008, but somehow—thanks to this incredible Porsche drift car—that’s exactly what happened. Back then I was still in college and was consuming possibly even more automotive media than I do now, and I…
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On Wednesday morning, business communication Platform Slack went down globally. At the time of writing users were still having trouble connecting and sending messages, including us! I guess you’ll have to wait for some of the spicy stories we have in the works.
The reveal of Baby Yoda at the end of the first episode of The Mandalorian was a huge surprise to everyone, but what was more surprising was the fact Disney didn’t have any toys lined up to meet demand during the impending Christmas shopping season. A lot has changed since,…
It’s good. But my head would not like to accept it, thank you.
