Leah Williams
It’s a great time to be a fan. This year, aside from making everyone very familiar with walking routes in their local area and the restocking times for the Tesco loo roll aisle, has shown the world that fans have power. In May, Warner Bros announced that the heavily mythologised…
Running through a roll of slide film today will run you around $30, before you add in any cost of processing and scanning a single photo. It costs a lot to hold a slide up to a light and see a more colourful world shining back at you. What’s free,…
Apple never misses a chance to brand itself as a tech company that puts our privacy before its profits ” and this year’s annual developer conference was no exception. By the time the virtual keynote wrapped up earlier today, the company announced a slew of new privacy-protective tech that’d be…
New war, same as to reveal some ancient evil or lingering secret Imperial force that could put its generation of Jedi at their peak to the test. Turns out, thankfully, that’s not the case: what the Jedi are up against is so much more fascinating.
Apple’s WWDC 2020 has finally arrived. The keynote is done and dusted and a hell of a lot was announced. From iOS 14 to Apple’s new custom silicon for Macs, we have quite a bit to cover. iOS 14 iOS 14 has been revealed and it comes with a…
Funny thing about Infinite Earths to could show up.
Presumably said coins will be tossed into the pockets of cast and crew as they ramp up production on the series’ second season. One would hope so, at least.
At its big product showcase last fall, Microsoft introduced the first Surface Laptop powered by an AMD CPU. But now, based on some leaked benchmarks, it appears Microsoft might double down on its use of AMD chips in the upcoming Surface Laptop 4.
It’s an adaptation 50 years in the making, which somehow feels more pertinent than ever. The first teaser trailer for Foundation, Apple TV+’s take on Isaac Asimov’s groundbreaking sci-fi series, has arrived — telling the story of a futuristic empire facing its own inevitable destruction, as a group of rebels…
Apple’s super-stuffed developer’s presentation today brought new announcements for wearables, an overhauled iOS interface, and a new macOS with the debut of Big Sur. But Apple dropped a bunch of updates coming to the Apple tech we use in our homes — a place we’re now spending more time than…
Apple officially announced that it will move away using Intel processors in its computers to its own custom-designed chips, and it says those processors will be faster than Intel’s and consume less power. The company is designing a family of SoCs for their Mac product line, so there will be…
It’s been a bad year for bees. According to the preliminary results of the University of Maryland’s annual survey, U.S. beekeepers lost 43.7% of their honey bees from April 2019 to April 2020. That’s the second highest rate of decline the researchers’ have observed since they started the survey in…
It seemed like Apple completely reinvented the way we used iPads with the recent iPadOS 13 update that added support for trackpads and mice.
WWDC 2020 is still going ahead this year despite COVID-19. It’s going to be all digital and streamed online as per usual. This means us Aussies still have to get up at a ludicrous time (or stay up) to catch all the action live. Get ready to mainline that coffee….
For the first time in most of our lifetimes, your local movie theatre won’t have a summer blockbuster season. The even next summer.
In an email, Amazon notified
There’s a lot of random chance happening in this post, so I figured that I, like a Dadaist, may as well embrace it. By chance I happened to see an Instagram post from the VWSlut account, which had a picture taken from Bruce Lee’s tribute Insta account, which featured Bruce…
Some cars are a bad influence on drivers. That Maserati Ghibli from a few weeks back certainly is one. Other cars, though? They can be the opposite, bringing out the best in someone, help them rise to the occasion. This Lancia Flavia looks to be one of those.
Apple’s WWDC 2020 will be a little different this year, coinciding with a global pandemic and demonstrations causing further instability across the United States. Instead, it will be streamed digitally from June 22 and is set to unveil some exciting new features. Here’s what we know so far. What is…
On Saturday, President Donald Trump held his first re-election campaign rally since states nationwide issued shelter-in-place orders and mandated restrictions on crowd sizes to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. To everyone’s surprise, the event was largely successful and critics applauded the president’s tactful and sensible talking points in…
If your Samsung Blu-ray player randomly started going on the fritz, you’re not alone. This week, thousands of users reported experiencing bugs that rendered their devices useless, and what’s causing the issue remains unknown.
Long a destination for adventurers seeking to know and understand the place where Christopher McCandless passed away as he strove to make a life for himself in the Alaska wild, Bus 142, or the “Magic Bus” as McCandless referred to it, has been removed from its remote resting place by…
From beautiful fantasy landscapes to stylish fan art, Jenn Ravenna Tran is an impressive illustrator.
large legacy, and more than a little bit of big Dark Side intervention from the baddies of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. In Adam Driver’s mind, that story was a bit more simple and grounded.
The novel coronavirus pandemic’s effects have already been felt far and wide, in what the covid-19 pandemic has done to them, their art, and the industry.
Only one catch: the cosplays were made in a day, with only household items. I guess that’s two catches.
A freak heatwave has been scorching most of the Arctic for weeks now, but it broke records Saturday when the temperature hit 38 degrees Celsius in a town in Siberia, one of Russia’s northernmost regions.
The neighbourhood social networking platform Nextdoor dropped its “Forward to Police” feature this week, a widely panned function that’s faced years of criticism for purportedly facilitating racial profiling.
Two years ago, Gizmodo shared author Molly Tanzer’s Victorian fantasy novel Creatures of Will & Temper in serialised excerpts. And now we’ve got good news for fans of the author, not to mention fans of free books: We’re doing it again, with her newest title! Check out chapter nineteen today.
In light of rising covid-19 cases, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Governor Gavin Newsom of California on Thursday announced that the state would require all residents to wear face masks or coverings in public and in situations deemed high-risk. The reasoning was simple. Apparently, too many people are…
Author Andy Weir hit the ground running with scooped up by Hollywood too. His third novel won’t be out until next year, but it’s already piling up the big names. It just added another one.
Apple’s Mac computers have gone through just two major CPU architecture transitions in their entire history: moving from Motorola 68k to PowerPC processors in 1994, and then switching from PowerPC to Intel x86 chips in 2005. Based on recent reports (and nearly half a decade of rumours), it appears Apple…
Welcome back to Who Ya Got, the series where we make up the rules a new way each time. In this instalment, I want to know Who Ya Got between a Suzuki Jimny and an original Hummer H1.
