This manoeuvre takes a bit of coordination and a lot of practice. If you are now in a situation where you can do a bit of driving with no destination in mind, and, chances are, have a lot of open roads available to you, it’s a great time to give…
Galleries, museums, libraries, theatres, cinemas and art centres have closed. All film production has stopped. Theatre companies, dance companies, opera companies, orchestras, bands, festivals, pub gigs – every kind of cultural activity you can think of has stopped or been cancelled.
A suite of new measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 have been announced by federal and state governments in the last 24 hours. We’ve collated the regulations in an infographic below – but it’s important to remember the situation is rapidly changing.
Scammers have utilised every tool at their disposal to pry credit card numbers, passwords, and Medicare information out of consumers during the covid-19 outbreak: robocalls, phishing emails, and texts masked as World Health Organisation PSAs; e-commerce facades advertising household items; sham charities; and, especially, promises of a non-existent vaccine. This…
One of the looming questions in Westworld season three is: Who is Charlotte Hale? Tessa Thompson’s character may have been sheltering Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) during the escape from the island, but now she could be home to anybody. In a look at next week’s episode, the mystery rises to…
Screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick teases a wild take for The Conjuring 3. Get a new look at Wonder Woman 1984, and Black Widow’s Taskmaster. There are more rumours about the directors behind The Mandalorian’s second season. Plus, what’s to come on The Walking Dead and Stargirl. To me, my spoilers!
The writers behind Zombieland, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, like to credit Bill Murray for the film’s success. They feel Murray agreeing to do a cameo in their little zombie comedy is one of the biggest reasons the first film was such a success and got a sequel a decade…
Gig workers pose a clear danger where the continued spread of covid-19 is concerned. As to the open question of how to responsibly address this massive vector of workers, who are often uninsured and can’t afford not to work in spite of the risks, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has apparently…
Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, sold $US3.5 ($6) million in stock on February 26, a month after his wife, Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, received a closed-door briefing about the covid-19 threat. According to SEC filings, Sprecher sold $US15.3 ($26) million more in stock on…
When it comes to tracking the spread of one of the worst pandemics in recent memory, personal privacy has taken a bit of a backburner. It’s resulted in some pitches that are leaving some tech sceptics more than a bit uncomfortable—like sharing our mobile phone’s location data with the federal…
California utility PG&E is officially pleading guilty to manslaughter charges related to the deadly Camp Fire in 2018.
As everyone spends more time indoors to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, now more than ever people are looking for things to do and socialise over, even if from the comfort of their own homes rather than physically in person. So, frankly, what better time to start rewatching…
The second episode of Westworld may have focused on Maeve’s experiences inside Warworld, but Bernard was letting us in on an even bigger secret at Delos’ parks. Much like how the series surprise-dropped the Raj in season two, we’ve learned the identity of Park 4—and it plays a much bigger…
Target has apologised for selling N95 masks in some of its Seattle stores after a photo of the masks went viral on social media. Personal protective equipment like masks are in short supply for doctors and nurses across the country as the covid-19 pandemic worsens, and Target has now has…
The global pandemic has sent the Australian dollar into the toilet, and it hasn’t taken long before companies were forced to adjust. Take Nvidia. The company finally launched the latest version of their Shield TV streaming box in Australia last week, and literally days after it went on sale, the…
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When it rains, it pours. Telstra’s mobile network is suffering from “intermittent service” in the Melbourne CBD area, although users have been reporting problems with the Telstra network nationwide.
And only one of them takes place in Warworld.
A number of planned races for Formula 1’s Grand Prix 2020 season have been dramatically postponed since the global coronavirus outbreak. To keep the ball rolling, it’s now hosting virtual races to continue the season amid uncertain times.
The dog-themed reality show, Pooch Perfect, imposes makeovers on a steady stream of dogs that haven’t asked for them. We may marvel at the skill of professional groomers, but what do the dog models make of all this?
Every wrencher knows that sometimes the only cure for a misbehaving machine is to just hit the damn thing. The finely tuned machines of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are no exception. Even a whole planet away, with different gravity and no magnetic field, machines just work better with…
In an address on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed his dismay at the hordes of “panic buyers” sweeping supermarket shelves clean across the country.
Authentic cosplay takes a lot of work. It’s an incredible art, on par with professional costuming, except done by hobbyists and fans, some of whom get paid for it but mostly by people who just… really like it. In a new video, a cosplayer shows how to transform into one…
Social distancing isn’t necessarily a one-person experience (although if it is for you, we made a list of games that can help with that). Some of us are living with a partner, a roommate, or someone else who plays an important role in our lives. It’s important to take time…
The Nissan Z sports car (well, let’s be real, it’s a sporty touring car) has a storied but inconsistent history. So, too, does the Z emblem. The twin-turbo rounded wedge Z of the ’90s was cool, but the long and lithe Z of the ’70s was the loveliest. This new…
If you’re an Apple user feeling under the weather and are worried you might have covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, you now have a new resource at your disposal: Siri.
You know what was a great decade for cars? The 20s. The last one I mean, not this one that we’re half a week into. Lots of great cars came out of the 20s, and a few great car companies. One of those companies was Alvis, which began making cars…
The second generation of The Walking Dead’s world is going to have to wait a bit longer for their journey, as The Walking Dead: World Beyond has been delayed.
Twitter has announced that it’s ramping up the verification process for its infamously arcane blue-checkmark system and prioritising qualified health professionals in the face of this ongoing pandemic.
Though all Apple retail locations outside of China technically closed on March 14 in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company provided customers with a two-day window to collect in-store pickups or any devices previously left for repairs. That grace period expired Tuesday, and if you haven’t already visited…
A potentially huge piece of Star Wars news is out there to end this terrible week but it almost feels too good to be true.
We’ve all mapped out some mental image of the world we live in, and it’s not great. Whatever our doomscape looks like, though, we can probably agree that it still beats a medieval patchwork of theocratic states after an unspecified Event, a zombie-colonised Britain, and a Pacific Northwest after Oregon’s…
With new information about the novel coronavirus seemingly arriving every hour on the hour, it’s perfectly understandable to feel confused and discombobulated. With that in mind, here’s a mantra I’ve held close to my hopefully healthy lungs for almost three months now: The things we think we know about covid-19 are…
Between there being just seven days left before Steven Universe Future brings the Crystal Gems’ epic saga to an end, and the fact that people across the world are staying home right now as the public still scrambles to fend off the covid-19 outbreak, now’s a pretty damned good time…
