George Dvorsky
Christopher Eccleston transformed Doctor Who forever. Sixteen years ago, the actor — headlining a bold reboot of the beloved British sci-fi classic that had been off screens for nearly a decade — presented a tortured, compassionate take on a Time Traveller without a home. Then, as quickly as we met…
There are people so obsessed with trains that they’ll travel the world just to spot a rare locomotive. And then there’s Jason Shron, who’s not only built a replica of a passenger train car in his basement, he’s also found a clever way to simulate a train ride by strapping…
Papua New Guinea’s health minister, Jelta Wong, spoke with an Australian think tank over videochat on Thursday about challenges PNG faces in combatting the covid-19 pandemic. PNG is seeing a resurgence of the disease along with a growing wave of misinformation being spread online about vaccines, and the talk is…
Imagine this: pulling up to a gas station to fill up only to discover that you can’t get gas there. Your car is a Chevy and you’re at a Shell station. Chevy’s aren’t compatible with Shell stations. You can only fill up at Speedway. But you really need gas and…
Labor has promised to make electric vehicles cheaper by dropping tariffs and taxes on many models if it wins at the next election. On Wednesday, the Australian Labor Party announced its electric vehicles policy at their national conference, as the party lays out its agenda in the lead-up to what…
Facebook is making it easier for Australians not to get sued for defamation because of comments made on their posts by giving users the option to control who can comment on their public posts. On Thursday morning, Facebook announced a handful of changes that it says will give “more control…
In space, nobody can hear you be a complete buffoon — unless you’re speaking to them directly about how, exactly, you painted the wrong number on the side of your own ship.
In a Wednesday update posted to the company’s ad-friendly content guidelines, YouTube announced it would be easing up on the monetisation restrictions for certain kinds of content dealing with “recreational drugs and drug-related content,” among other topics. Youtube’s been a historically unfriendly place for cannabis-related content, with some creators in…
This month we’ve got teenage telekinetics, magical twins, shapeshifters, supernatural detectives, space adventures, palace intrigue, fantasy epics, monsters, and more — plus the first-ever YA fantasy novel by Gizmodo co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. Read on!
It must be hard, getting 86’ed from a venue, watching as 2.7 billion people stroll past a skinny, pale bouncer. Maybe you mull around the dumpster outside, in a cloud of cigarette smoke with the Nazis and Laura Loomer, talking about how much that party sucks, actually, that this alley…
For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration called ALPHA, which…
Wireless chargers have a dark secret that’s never addressed in the brochures and other promotional materials: You still have to deal with wires. But with Humanscale’s new NeatCharge wireless charger, at least those cords are hidden away out of sight underneath a desk or table.
Let’s face it. We’re all old. Even if that’s not technically true, there’s always something a person can say or do to make you feel that way. One of those is when we realise a movie we feel an affinity for is way older than we remember it being. The…
A new animated movie produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed both the outstanding first Lego Movie and the even more outstanding Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? Yes, please.
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Venom 2. Get a tiny little taste of more The Suicide Squad footage. The cast of Lucifer shares their thoughts as the show wraps production. Plus, Teen Titans Go! recruits an old foe for a new Easter special. Spoilers, Go!
Facebook users will soon get more control over who can comment on their public posts, according to an announcement by the social media giant on Wednesday.
The latest instalment of the ACCC’s Measuring Broadband Report looks at just how good ISPs are when it comes to streaming Netflix in 4K.
Optus just raised the typical evening speeds you can expect during peak hours. The telco is also advertising a congestion-free experience.
The Obi-Wan TV series is set to reveal secrets about the Jedi’s past and his relationship with Anakin Skywalker.
Today in things that absolutely no one asked for: a patent for a potential iPhone design that looks like a cheese grater. You know, like on the cursed Mac Pro tower? That, but on your phone.
As Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama near a ballot count for their union election, Amazon is engaged in another sweep of last-ditch efforts to salvage the company’s reputation as a GREAT workplace and it made another thwarted attempt to micro-monitor the ballot count. All around, it’s a bad look for…
The saying goes, “Winners never cheat, and cheaters never win,” but that’s apparently not the case. Police in Kunshan, China, say that a video game cheating ring pulled in an astonishing $US76 ($100) million in subscription fees before a recent bust, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
Friends, I’m not typically a picky eater. But there’s something about Google’s new AI-generated cake recipe that… makes my skin crawl just a bit.
Whaaat just happened to Squarespace? In today’s daily dose of irony, the website hosting provider (known for supporting site operations for companies the world over) seemed to temporarily lose access to its own homepage Tuesday.
He has history in the field of medical sciences, of course, so Donald Faison should be more than fine adding sugar, spice, and everything nice to the CW’s live-action take on the Powerpuff Girls.
There’s growing awareness that plastics are an environmental disaster for marine and terrestrial ecosystems alike. A new United Nations report published Tuesday shows they’re also a huge problem for human beings — and that they don’t affect us all equally.
New research suggests Borisov — the second known interstellar visitor to our solar system — had never previously visited a star, not even the one from its home system, prior to zipping past our Sun in 2019. That makes Borisov one of the most pristine — if not the most…
Researchers have demonstrated just how easy it is to trick the mind into remembering something that didn’t happen. They also used two very simple techniques to reverse those false memories, in a feat that paves the way for a deeper understanding of how memory works.
Ended, the Clone War has — but Clone Force 99’s fight is far from over.
Who’s ready for some frights? Lionsgate’s Spiral: From the Book of Saw has a brand new trailer today, and it reveals a bit more about what we can expect to see from Darren Lynn Bousman’s reboot of the horror franchise.
The world’s in a pretty miserable place lately, but looking to the future can help inspire us to build a better tomorrow for us all — and novelist, Hugo-Award winning podcaster, and former editor of io9 and Gizmodo Annalee Newitz is here to help!
Anyone who’s ever had to buy a replacement set of earbuds at the airport after losing their good ones during a trip already knows what a $US25 ($33) pair of earbuds sounds like: disappointment and regret. And yet somehow Skullcandy’s new $US25 ($33) Dime truly wireless earbuds sound surprisingly decent given…
It’s hard to imagine a time when people still relied on paper maps and printed directions, but we’ve come a long way. To celebrate, Google today announced that more than 100 AI-powered updates are coming to Google Maps in 2021. Yes, that’s right: 100.
