Thanks to a new book written by Lucasfilm Star Wars fact extraordinaire Pablo Hidalgo, we have a lot of interesting new information about the galaxy far, far away. And it turns out George Lucas’s original plans for a sequel trilogy bore some interesting resemblances to what actually happened.
NASA is preparing to send a woman and a man to the Moon in 2024, in what will be the first mission to the lunar surface in 52 years. The new spacesuit being designed for the mission is sleek and ultra high-tech, with a swath of features not possible during…
Agility Robotics has announced a $US20 ($28) million funding round for a robot that looks like a Greek myth crossed with a cyberpunk fever dream. The robot, called Digit, is designed to work alongside meat humans in environments where people congregate but that might be difficult for robots to manage.
Watching The Boys, one could easily come away from the show with the impression that series creator Eric Kripke has a bone to pick with the superhero adaptations that have fundamentally altered the shape of modern day Hollywood. In reality, though, Kripke’s beef is less about stories about caped heroes,…
At least this time, there isn’t a showrunner change?
This week, U.S. Republicans got their most coveted pre-election prize: smoking-gun evidence that Facebook and Twitter are depriving them of their God-given right to say whatever they want on Facebook and Twitter, as the Founding Fathers intended. It’s the moment they’ve all been waiting for. They could not be more…
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has put the kibosh on any dreams of rushing out its experimental covid-19 vaccine before the U.S. election day. The good news is that the company is optimistic that its vaccine will be ready to apply for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorisation (EUA)…
The writing has been on the wall for a while now, but it finally appears that Japan is ready to proceed with dumping over 1 million tons of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The water will be treated to remove some — but not…
The Sims is a great way to create fun, unrealistic versions of everyday life — a blessing in disguise for the times we’re living in. But it has another purpose: Finding out how evil you can be to digital strangers. For this unholiest of months, I decided to create a…
After being delayed by a month, Apple’s iPhone 12 event has finally happened. With it came four new iPhone 12 devices and we have all of the Australian price, specs, pre-order and release date information for you right here. The entire range comes with mmWave 5G functionality that has Smart…
Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you’re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no. But atoms and particles are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, in which several different possible situations can coexist at once. Quantum systems are…
It’s time to do my monthly check-in on Bollinger, the electric truck startup that I really hope can pull this off. Bollinger so far has forged a path of sensible progress, as opposed to — to use two recent examples — Lordstown Motors and Nikola. Founder Robert Bollinger said this…
Google is taking a cue from the Apple-owned music recognition app Shazam by enabling a search feature that will recognise any song you hum to it — and you don’t need to hum on-key either, apparently. Hum to Search, along with a few other new features, is one of a few…
Rumours have swirled around the internet the last few days that there could be a reunion of previous Spider-Men in the new Spider-Man 3 film. That’s right, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield — potentially together at last. Spider-Man 3 Rumours: Spider-Men Last night Sony did absolutely nothing to dampen those…
It’s 2020 and everyone is bored in quarantine, except for David Lynch. The Twin Peaks director has been posting videos daily from his workshop since May, with content ranging from short films to bizarre music videos. And that’s just scratching the surface. David Lynch’s YouTube channel, the David Lynch Theatre,…
Earlier today, Google announced in a corporate blog post that the die-hards currently left on the Hangouts messaging platform are officially getting the boot. Starting in early 2021, the company will start making moves to “automatically migrate” everyone’s Hangouts chat history and contacts to the Google Workspace-ready alternative, Google Chat.
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Update: Seems like it’s back. Carry on If you’ve been frantically refreshing your browser or checking your router: don’t worry, it’s not just you. Twitter is down. According to website outage service Downdetector, users began reporting an outage around 8.08 AEDT. Some said they could load the website but were unable…
Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have boarded Roland Emmerich’s moon disaster movie. Brannon Braga has hopes for more Books of Blood. Stephen King gives a tiny update on HBO’s The Outsider. Plus, The Walking Dead zombie-shambles back into production, and Dexter returns. Spoilers get!
Stephen King needs no introduction. Though he spends most of his time writing books and stories that almost inevitably get made (and remade) into movies and TV series, he also manages to do a little acting on the side, most often popping up in adaptations of his own works. Would…
You may not fully realise it to look at a lot of the promotional material, but Soul, Pixar’s new movie on its way to Disney+, is actually the studio’s first feature to centre a story on a Black protagonist, one who ends up dying quite early after he’s introduced, with…
Yellowstone National Park is home to a magnificent geyser known as Old Faithful that spits out boiling hot water at regular intervals (on average, every 90 to 94 minutes). I’ve never seen it in person, but I figured there was no rush since with a name like Old Faithful, it’d…
If you were on Twitter yesterday, you may have seen the photo of Senator Cory Booker, a hair’s breadth from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s mouth, making the rounds thanks in part to Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who tweeted: “Masks?” The implication was that the image was taken at Amy…
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the U.S. government’s privacy and civil liberties watchdog to launch an investigation into claims of government surveillance at protests against police violence and racial inequality spurred this year by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
The Oculus Quest 2 makes setting yourself up in virtual reality easier (and more affordable) than ever before, and if you’ve invested in the hottest VR gadget of the moment then you’re going to want to know how to get the most out of it. We over a lot of…
A game hidden in Vivaldi version 3.4 is adding “pixel-perfect” 8-bit cyberpunk action to your browsing sessions.
In just a few years’ time Arcade1Up has managed to make a name for itself with a collection of DIY, IKEA-like arcade cabinets perfect for retro gaming collectors with limited space. The company is now targeting board game fans too with its new Infinity Game Table that lets players crowd…
Australians have a variety of video streaming options. Many of those are owned by Foxtel: Foxtel Now, Kayo and BINGE are all different streaming services with some overlapping content that come under the company’s umbrella. But as of Friday, some of the company’s services won’t play together as well as…
For many political junkies, Aaron Sorkin’s television show The West Wing has become a religious text. The fictionalised world depicting a rose-tinted (or completely divorced from reality if you ask some) view of U.S. politics that inspired a generation to believe in the power of rousing rhetoric and bipartisanship. And…
There are certain film roles that can define an actor’s career. Ralph Macchio has starred in over 25 films, yet he is most identifiable as the teenage Danny Larouso in The Karate Kid (1984). Similarly, Alex Winter has had a long career as a director and actor, but is best…
Get ready to feel the guilt… and pain. Amazon Studios has signed on for a television adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer, about a group of teens who do something really stupid and get murdered for it.
Amaysim and Lycamobile are being fined by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for supposedly advertising false ‘unlimited’ mobile data plans. Unlimited data… with limitations The Australian consumer watchdog has given both telcos infringement notices for allegedly posting false and misleading plan information on social media. Amaysim has been…
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will now be extending current rules about lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic to include misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
Voting is a fundamental right, but not even the Coronavirus Pandemic can stop that other great Australian democratic institution, the democracy sausage. It turns out that all you need to bypass that whole inconvenient social distancing matter is a few good drones.
