Look at them. They’re gay. (Well, Princess Bubblegum is bi, if we’re being exact.) Good for them.
One knock against Thor: Ragnarok is that it was Sif-less, a lack that fans of Jaimie Alexander’s Asgardian warrior took sharp note of. Fortunately, Thor: Love & Thunder won’t be nearly so bereft.
Oracle is relocating its California-based headquarters to Austin, Texas, making it the latest tech company to decamp from Silicon Valley.
In the last few years, tech companies have sunk an incredible amount of time, money, and hype into solving sleep. Some companies offer to help you track your sleep with wearables, some aim to help you sleep more soundly with meditation services or devices, and others have developed products that…
For decades, volunteers in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts have spent November and December trekking up and down the area’s beaches during high tide. They have a very important mission: finding stranded sea turtles that are so cold they can barely move, leaving them essentially defenseless on the shore.
New modelling from the U.S. Centres for the Disease Control and Prevention paints a grim outlook for the near-term future of the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S., even as Americans are poised to receive the first doses of two highly effective vaccines soon. This week, the agency released projections that…
Fear might be the mind killer, but streaming could wind up killing Dune itself. Director Denis Villeneuve is speaking out against WarnerMedia’s recent decision to give all of next year’s movies simultaneous releases on HBO Max, warning that it could mean the end of the franchise before it’s even begun.
On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart and 17 other researchers from the Stanford Research Institute gave a 90-minute demo of groundbreaking technologies that provided a startlingly accurate glimpse of a future that was still decades away. One of those technologies was a computer interface navigated with a mouse: a device…
A group of astronauts have ventured out into space and are now on their way home, but what if there’s no home to go back to? In the latest trailer for Netflix’s The Midnight Sky, star and director George Clooney is desperate to keep a crew of returning explorers, led…
In October of 2014, a rare Apple 1 motherboard, thought to be one of the first 50 built by Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs’ family home, was sold by Bohnams at auction for $US905,000 ($1,203,922). Today, you can own a small piece of that Silicon Valley artefact, but it comes…
There are many ways to remember U.S. President Donald Trump’s environmental legacy, none of them good. But among his most destructive will be his utter disregard for the natural world, and there’s no clearer symbol of that than the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
I was thinking about Monday’s story where the autonomous robotaxi/small bus company Zoox was spotted shooting some sort of promo video with their new bi-directional autonomous transport cube-vehicle when it occurred to me that this company could be accomplishing all of their goals for likely a lot less money than…
“Coronavirus” has already established itself as the scary new word of 2020. Add the word “mutant”, and you’ve got an even stronger candidate for the scary new phrase of 2021. One fear is that critical parts of the coronavirus genome will mutate, making any vaccine obsolete before it’s widely rolled…
After a year of production delays and shutdowns, the momentum hasn’t slowed down at Disney. At the Walt Disney Investor Day presentation on December 10, Disney announced its upcoming content across all of its brands including Star Wars, Marvel, 20th Century Studios and Disney movies and TV shows, many of…
Google plans to counter vaccine conspiracy theories and misinformation by tacking on new knowledge panels to search results when people look up information about covid-19 vaccines.
Hyundai is certainly looking toward the future these days. Wednesday we reported that the South Korean automaker is finalising a deal to buy our future robot overlords Boston Dynamics for just under a cool billion dollars, and now Hyundai has reaffirmed its dedication to what it calls urban air mobility…
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is coming on March 19. The date, and a first trailer, were shared during today’s Disney event. And that trailer was nothing short of bonkers.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently announced the winning bidders of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase 1 auction, revealing SpaceX’s Starlink won a massive $US885 ($1,177) million to provide high-speed internet to underserved and unserved rural areas of the U.S. The agency’s report provided information on how much money…
The Clone War may be over. But Clone Force 99’s war is only just about to begin. Welcome to The Bad Batch. The Clone Wars continues with The Bad Batch Today at the Disney Investor Day livestream, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy revealed the first look at what to expect from…
It’s not very often that Google shows care for anything besides its bottom line these days, but on Thursday, the company made a small step in the right direction by announcing a new setting that lets people limit the alcohol- and gambling-related ads they come across.
Watching a six-minute YouTube video is a lot to ask when the internet serves up bite-size snippets of entertainment requiring just a few seconds of your attention. But close-up magician Eric Chien manages to squeezed so many impossible tricks into his 2018 World Championships of Magic-winning routine, you actually might…
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This morning, people are refreshing the ‘front page of the internet’ to no avail because it seems that Reddit is down. Update: Reddit is back and it seems like the issues didn’t last past mid-morning AEDT. You can read the original story below. Early on Friday morning (Australian time), users…
Following an opinion piece in the New York Times which called out both Pornhub for hosting nonconsensual and often illegal material, and the credit card companies for enabling the site to profit from it, Mastercard has terminated its relationship with Pornhub. For now though, Mastercard will continue to do business…
Wanna watch The Watch? Well the time is almost here.
Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space — they just need a surprising resource.
With the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie being as surprisingly solid as it was, Sega’s latest plans for the supersonic mammal hardly come as a surprise.
A thorough re-analysis of a skeleton belonging to a 2-year-old Neanderthal and the archaeological site in which it was discovered some 50 years ago is providing some of the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals deliberately buried their dead.
Rumours have been swirling around claiming the Galaxy S21 could get announced as early as January (possibly a month sooner than S20’s debut last year), and now it appears some official teasers have leaked out giving us a glimpse at the S21’s unique design.
Since the final episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, a ticking time bomb has lurked in the show’s background, a time bomb that began to tick faster when talk of series spinoffs emerged. Whatever can we do about Emperor Georgiou? The show’s decided that it’s time to answer and see…
Johns Hopkins, the 19th century philanthropist whose name graces some of the most prestigious scientific and academic institutions in America, was long thought to be a man who deplored slavery and fought to abolish the ownership of human beings in the U.S. But as it turns out, Hopkins actually owned…
Believe it or not, buying a home used to be a far more painstaking process than it is now. Granted, it was far easier to actually save for a home back when our parents weren’t being taxed for extra-curricular activities like bar-hopping, but in terms of the actual process of…
There aren’t many mosquito fans out there. In fact, people want to kill them — perhaps even all of them. And some have figured out very creative ways to get rid of them: specifically, killing mosquitos using Cardi B music. A YouTuber has come up with a very creative way…
A car meet has claimed yet another victim. This time, the crash was not caused by faulty traction control but by one-upmanship and a poorly executed manoeuvre.
