After spending months of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the spotlight for trying to repeatedly re-open the gates to the Magic Kingdom, Disneyland is finally letting Californians in…but not to take a ride on Haunted Mansion or sip on a green milk at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
At-home fitness is having a moment due to the global pandemic, and connected gym equipment makers are struggling to keep up with demand. While you probably know NordicTrack best for its treadmills, the company is launching one of a smart workout mirrors — sort of like the Lululemon-owned Mirror, but…
Extreme weather disasters are costing the country billions of dollars in damages each year. A new study from Stanford shows that over the past three decades, the U.S. has seen nearly $US75 ($97) billion in damage from floods fuelled by the climate crisis.
At first glance, Razer’s refreshed line of 15-inch Blade and 17-inch Blade Pro laptops might not look much different than last year’s models, but inside is a different story — this year we get faster displays and GPUs, along with a subtly revamped design.
AMD’s Ryzen series of CPUs seem to be getting better with every iteration, and the Ryzen 5000 series launched in the fall of 2020 was perhaps the most impressive series yet. And now it’s coming to laptops.
A new report released Tuesday by the American Cancer Society provides some good news: Americans who had cancer in 2018 were less likely to die from it than they were a year earlier, continuing a steady decline in cancer mortality over the past 30 years. As hopeful as this trend…
Watching an airport operate can help pass the time while you’re waiting for a flight. As you watch the orchestra of people and vehicles prep a plane for its flight, a baggage tractor will certainly join the effort.
What would you do if you could be invisible? Would you use your power for good? For evil? Or just to avoid awkward conversations? Transparency may seem like the simplest form of camouflage, but in the last year, research has revealed new complexities behind what some animals do to vanish…
Every year CES sees a plethora of bathroom tech. So good. Some bad. Some just plain weird. But occasionally a product will come along that I will thirst for with every inch of my cold, black heart. This year it’s the Kohler Stillness smart bath and I wish to live…
Hollywood blockbusters such as X-men, Gattaca and Jurassic World have explored the intriguing concept of “germline genome editing” – a biomolecular technique that can alter the DNA of sperm, eggs or embryos. If you remove a gene that causes a certain disease in an embryo, not only will the baby…
Ben Affleck is probably never going to direct that Batman movie he’d been prepping but he may get to play with some wonderful toys at a rival studio.
Several of the U.S.’s largest telecommunications companies have vowed to halt donations to the Republican lawmakers who sought to delay the certification of the 2020 election results, joining a growing list of businesses pledging to reevaluate their political contributions in 2021.
The season three finale of Star Trek: Discovery was a big one for Michael Burnham. She had to retake the Discovery from the villain of the season, try to stop some of her closest friends from dying of radiation, and prevent kickstarting a galaxy-wide cataclysm — just to name a…
When it comes to indoor gardening you basically have to go big or go home. Anyone who has started seedlings in the kitchen and hoped to get some basil or thyme out of the process knows that it’s easy to get a sprout but hard to get a plant. Chicago-based…
Despite the spectacular failure of Juicero — a $US400 ($516) machine that created freshly squeezed juice by squeezing juice-filled pouches — there are still companies willing to bet on pod-based instant food machines. The latest is the ColdSnap which creates on-demand soft serve and other frozen treats if you’ve got…
Lenovo’s ThinkPads are some of the few commercial laptops that have crossover appeal to the general consumer market, and for CES 2021, Lenovo claims its new Thinkpad X1 Titanium Yoga is not only the thinnest 2-in-1 it’s ever made, but also the thinnest ThinkPad ever.
While consumer electronics companies tend to dominate CES, makeup brand L’Oreal has carved out a neat little niche for itself at the show. From augmented reality makeup lines to wearable UV and pH sensors, the company always has something up its sleeve when it comes to beauty tech. This year,…
Parler is now suing Amazon after the company — along with fellow tech giants Apple and Google — refused to continue hosting the “free speech” platform in the wake of last week’s violent rush on the U.S. Capitol.
It’s no secret that Google, as well as other big tech companies, know a lot about you. Probably a lot more than you think they do. And while in general that’s really creepy, sometimes it can briefly produce cool results, before going back to being creepy. Case in point: You…
A pair of ongoing NASA missions — the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and the InSight lander on Mars — have been extended following an external review.
All aboard for season two of TNT’s Snowpiercer!
A common parasite spread through undercooked pork and occasionally our cats might have more insidious health effects than previously suspected. New research suggests a link between infection with Toxoplasma gondii and an increased risk of brain cancer. At this point, however, scientists aren’t sure yet if there’s a direct cause-and-effect relationship,…
Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book, Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter…
In case you need more proof that we live in hell, a massive sinkhole opened in an Italian hospital’s parking lot on Friday. The gaping hole, which was 20 metres deep and 2,000 square metres wide, swallowed at least three cars in the Naples car park. It also disrupted the…
It’s not CES without at least one AI-powered toothbrush that promises to revolutionise how you clean your mouth. It’s usually some form of Bluetooth connectivity with an app that lets you view which teeth you’ve brushed, and which ones you may have missed. At this year’s show, however, Philips’ Sonicare…
TCL is bringing multiple soundbars and new display technology to its home entertainment lineup this year.
Panasonic is hoping to win over the gaming crowd with its flashy new flagship OLED. Grab a ticket, buddy.
Last year, nestled among the booths at CES Unveiled, an untouched veggie platter, and hordes of tired tech journalists, I stumbled upon the taint bandaid.
If you haven’t already swapped out your backups for SSDs, then congratulations, it means you haven’t lost data after accidentally dropping a drive on the floor. For many reasons solid-state drives are a safer solution for digital hoarders, and with a bump to 4 TB capacities, Western Digital and SanDisk’s…
I do not like bugs. Creepy, many-legged things make my skin crawl. But as unpleasant as they are, insects are absolutely crucial for our world’s ecosystems to function, and sadly, new research shows that the creatures populations are on the verge of collapse.
A team of researchers in Malaysia have managed to create a bio-degradable drone from discarded pineapple leaves.
We’ve all had those times when we’ve forgotten to plug in our phones overnight or drop them onto wireless chargers. If you’re staying in a hotel, or you’re out and about, there’s a good chance that there’s going to be some kind of publicly accessible charger that you can jack…
Parler is learning a hard lesson this week that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.
