
Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant. Such a contraption would refute core principles of physics as we know them and eliminate a huge barrier to deep space…

Apple’s offering a bit more clarity surrounding the anti-tracking tech that’s going to debut this autumn. On Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that Apple’s so-called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) protocol will crack down on all identifiers an app might use to track you — not just identifiers that…

We’ve seen shockingly little from Hasbro’s upcoming G.I.Joe movie reboot starring the titular, fan-favourite ninja, despite the fact it was due to premiere back in March of 2020. It’s been delayed multiple times since then, but it’s suspicious that we never got a trailer even before the pandemic hit. Still,…

“Remember this?” Budweiser asks, in a new commercial promoting covid-19 vaccines. What follows are a series of snapshots of the before times, when we swigged at the barbecue, sloshed around at the bar, flung beer all over each other at the frat. Jimmy Durante croons, with nostalgic record cracking, the…

It’s always interesting when you can pick out the influences that shaped an artist’s work, and then consider the influences and what they inspired as pieces of culture in conversation with one another. Consider then Craig Gillespie’s Cruella, a 101 Dalmatians prequel of sorts that’s also humming with a surprising…

Peter Dutton is threatening to sue Twitter users for defamation over claims that he was a “rape apologist”. On Thursday, the Guardian Asutralia’s Paul Karp and Amy Remeikis reported that one Twitter user had received a legal letter from the Australian Defence Minister about their tweets. “Guardian Australia is aware…

Australia’s top diplomats are acting on the assumption that their phones have been hacked after the identities of multiple Australian politicians have been used as part of sophisticated phishing attacks on Telegram. Two weeks ago, Australian Finance Minister Simon Birmingham referred a Telegram account to the police after contacts of…

Apple CEO Tim Cook hopes the right-wing social media network Parler will return to the company’s App Store eventually because *checks notes* variety is the spice of life. In an interview on the New York Times’ Sway podcast on Monday, Cook discussed everything from his thoughts on Elon Musk to US voting rights. But in…

Popular group-chat app Discord deleted 2,000-plus servers dedicated to extremism and violent content in the second half of 2020, including more than 300 QAnon communities. According to its latest half-yearly transparency report, released on Monday, Discord banned a total of 2,212 servers dedicated to extremist content between July and December…

Is “leftover Easter chocolate” an oxymoron? Does such a thing even exist? If, for some bizarre reason, you get tired of consuming chocolate bunnies this April, don’t throw all that chocolate away. As YouTube user Knifemaker demonstrates, you could actually turn all those sugary treats into a functional kitchen knife.