SpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers.
Man, finding love sure is hard when you’re a domestic terrorist wanted for treason.
Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and extracted in the days before Amazon restricted access to app last week, reveal its users included police officers around the U.S. and service members stationed on bases at home and abroad.
Facebook announced on Saturday that it was banning ads that promote weapons accessories and protective equipment until January 22, after US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, “out of an abundance of caution.”
Another director joins the crew. Considering the subject matter, it seems like he’ll fit right in.
After more than 15 years of protest by tribal organisations, local communities, and environmental groups across the US from Arizona to Washington, DC, an extended battle over a valuable parcel of land in central Arizona entered a new phase. On Saturday, the Forest Service released the final environmental impact statement…
Google is reportedly about to face its third antitrust lawsuit from state attorneys general–this time challenging its stranglehold on the Play Store, the default app portal for hundreds of millions of devices worldwide.
After trying — and failing — to combat public outrage using a series of ostensibly well-intentioned tweets, WhatsApp announced on Friday that it would postpone its plans to implement a spate of controversial changes to its privacy policy.
Even if you aren’t the type of person who peruses WhatsApp on a regular basis, chances are you’ve tried perusing its new privacy policy.
Last year was a watershed moment for sex tech. For the first time in CES’s decades-long history, the category wasn’t banished to the dark corners of the showroom floor. This was after a contentious 2019, when the Consumer Tech Association (CTA) revoked an award from Lora DiCarlo’s Osé sex toy…
Apple has been slowly building its empire of subscription services for everything from news and fitness to TV and cloud storage. But Apple has dragged its feet on podcasts, which is strange considering the company popularised the creation and distribution of podcasts about [checks notes] 16 years ago. Apple is…
The rules of engagement are changing for the second season of Ronald D. Moore’s alt-history space race series: because war’s coming to the moon. Maybe moon pirates, too?
By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light — it loses all shape, form, and depth. But what happens when you mix those super-black paints with highly-reflective colour-shifting sparkles and then paint a car? The result is…
If you’ve been missing MagSafe, good news — rumour has it that Apple’s magnetic power adaptor is set to make a return to two upgraded MacBook Pros later this year.
One of the great things about the internet, among all the horrible ones, is that the abundance of online information makes research simpler. I know this is stupidly obvious when written out, but if you were, for instance, buying a video game in the ’90s, you had to read a…
The Volkswagen Group More Than Tripled Its Electric Vehicle Sales In 2020, Still Fell Short Of Tesla
2020 as a whole was not a kind year to many. Volkswagen, in particular, saw a global sales decline of 15.2 per cent. Things looked particularly dire in the first half of the year, but the VW Group saw a significant recovery in the fourth quarter. One bright spot for…
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Take the stars home – literally – with a galaxy projector to fill your home with the shiniest celestial bodies.
The Tesla Model 3 quickly earned a reputation for safety. Our look at the engineering of the Tesla Model Y crossover, which is based on the 3, revealed even more structural improvements. Now Tesla claims the Model Y is the safest SUV ever tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety…
Well, well, well. Look who else is jumping on the “hybrid” release bandwagon.
Vampire moves can be good, and these flicks will prove it.
Every now and again in this wretched world, a bright spot flickers and warms our cold, grizzled hearts for just a moment. Like when someone spots that the domain that you’d assume belongs to Australia’s leading anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson has expired, grabs it, and redirects it to a group…
On November 14, 2014, a telescope spotted a burst of light in a galaxy 570 million light-years away. It was thought to be a supernova, an arrestingly bright explosion that marks a star’s death. This week, astronomers revealed that the burst was not a supernova after all, but rather a…
Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House is ending the way it began, with a slapdash effort to make everything a little (or lot) worse than he found it while trying to burn down the planet in the name of conservative grievances.
WandaVision is the first in a heart new Marvel lineup continuing where Avengers: Endgame left off.
Ring, the Amazon-owned friend to nosy police departments everywhere, has suffered another embarrassing security stumble. The surveillance company’s Neighbours app — which was launched in 2018 as a kind of “neighbourhood watch” feature — apparently left users exact geographical data and home address information exposed to the internet.
From games like Wii Tennis to accessories like the Wii Balance Board, Nintendo has mad it possible to turn its consoles into fitness devices to help gamers get active. But hardware hacker Mike Choi may have just come up with the ultimate way to stay fit with the Switch by turning…
After months of rumours the Samsung S21 has finally been unveiled. Here’s everything you need to know about the three new phones, including the Australian prices and release dates.
It seems like just a few months ago Samsung released its active noise-cancelling Galaxy Buds Live. Oh, right, that’s because it did. And yet here we are with a brand new pair of active noise-cancelling Bluetooth earbuds, Galaxy Buds Pro. They’re a little pricier than the Buds Live, but promise…
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport partly because the only piece of equipment you need is a ball. But to maximise the sport’s accessibility, particularly in impoverished communities where a deflated ball can mean game over, Japanese design studio nendo created a non-inflatable soccer ball alternative that assembles like…
One of the biggest issues with smart lights is the way they interact with traditional wall switches, which is exactly what Philips Hue is hoping to fix with its new Wall Switch Module.
Over a year since announcing the deal and after months of regulatory scrutiny, the Google-Fitbit merger is finally official.
For the past 23 weeks, every Friday a new episode of Star Trek has appeared, delivering us Lower Decks’ surprising debut season and the third, strongest chapter of Discovery. A lot happened in nearly half a year of boldly going, but looking back, all I can think about was how…
We’re barely into 2021 and it’s already been kind of a lot, to say the least. If you’re able to take a break from doomscrolling, we recommend it. We’ve also rounded up some of the best iOS and Android apps for calming your brain amidst the chaos. Close Twitter, take…
