Apple’s iOS 14 beta has proven surprisingly handy at sussing out what apps are snooping on your phone’s data. It ratted out LinkedIn, Reddit, and
Public health officials in Oklahoma announced on Friday the U.S. state will begin using text messages to help contact people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus by patients who have tested positive. It’s a wise decision for contact tracers in the state, given the reluctance of many people…
Optus managing director, Matt Williams, has gone after Telstra, calling its recent mobile pricing changes “tone deaf” and “surprising”. This article was originally published on July 24. Williams made these comments to News Corp on Friday. This was part of a announcement that sees Optus place a price freeze on…
Though you’ll probably learn more about the movie itself from the very recent trailer, San Diego Comic-Con’s Bill & Ted Face the Music panel was still the opposite of bogus, with the cast and crew (virtually) reuniting to discuss the much-anticipated three-quel.
The Cold War is really heating up in the second season of alternate history Apple TV+ show and provided a sneak peek at what the future holds.
He’s not Aquaman. He’s way more pathetic.
During a press conference Friday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany decried the supposed cancelling of Nickelodeon’s popular kids show PAW Patrol and, in doing so, proved why outrage over so-called cancel culture is usually nothing more than deflective bullshit.
Look, OK, some of you are going to blast me as a chump who’s willing to give up her face to Big Tech for convenience, but I really hope this rumour that Face ID may be coming to Macs is true.
Fans of The Walking Dead have been waiting for its latest spin-off since it was announced last year, an anticipation that’s only grown since a couple of intriguing trailers dropped. Then, The Walking Dead: World Beyond‘s planned April debut was postponed ” but today’s virtual Comic-Con panel brought all kinds…
About a month ago, Oculus announced that it was slimming down its VR headset portfolio by dropping support for the Oculus Go in order to focus more on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S. But now, new photos have emerged depicting a revamped Oculus Quest with potentially a new set…
New leaked benchmarks that supposedly show Apple’s developer transition kit running Geekbench 5 Pro natively on the Mac mini are starting to make the rounds — meaning unlike the benchmarks that had leaked previously, which showed Geekbench 5 running virtually via Rosetta 2 on the transition kit, someone has supposedly…
We’ve gotten tomorrow’s virtual San Diego Comic-Con panel: a full, and fully eerie, trailer for the much-anticipated series.
There are probably few phrases in the English language that immediately set off more alarm bells than “Pizzagate movie.” But ready or not, there is a grindhouse Pizzagate movie coming out — and against the odds, it actually looks pretty damn good.
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, there are mysterious canines with short ears, pointy noses, and bushy tails that roam the undergrowth. The creatures, which are one of the least studied variety of dogs on the planet, are rarely seen even by scientists who have spent years studying the region.
Murmurs that Microsoft’s Surface Duo might appear Bluetooth SIG certification that popped up today are strong hints that we’re probably a just a few weeks away from launch.
This week Aussie Broadband’s managing director Phil Britt revealed one user chugged 34TB in a month. Britt said the culprit would soon be hearing from the telco regarding its fair use policy. It’s made good on its promise too, because the bandit’s connection was just cancelled. Actually, it was 35TB…
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab…
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An Aussie Broadband user has managed to download a staggering 34TB of data in a month. This is the highest recorded usage on the NBN network. And since we first published, we found them. The big reveal came during a Reddit AMA with Aussie Broadband managing director, Phil Britt. A…
During a study in mid-2019, a team of Facebook employees found that proposed rules for Instagram’s automated account removal system disproportionately flagged and banned Black users. When the team approached CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his upper echelon of cronies with this alarming information, they were purportedly ignored and told to…
A New Map Gives Clues About What Dark Matter Is, But Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic Expansion Rate
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, it fills the whole universe, and it pushes galaxies away from each other. This is making our cosmos expand at an accelerated rate. But what is it? One…
I mean… what else are you gonna do when there’s a musician out there who loves your franchise so much his stage name is literally Thundercat?
After the release of the questionable V50 ThinQ last year, some wondered if LG would stay in the phone game in Australia. Especially after it didn’t bring its follow up device here. But rather than abandon all hope, the Korean manufacturer has engaged in a hard reset on its approach…
If you’re going to try to convince collectors, who’ve already dropped hundreds of dollars on various model kits, to spend another $2,800 on just a single tiny model, this is the way to do it. At just five-inches tall, this RX-78-2 Gundam justifies its obscene price tag by swapping plastic…
You don’t have to be a monsters, undead creatures, and otherworldly forces have some of the biggest hearts out there ” along with the most rub-able tummies.
Two children from opposite ends of reality are about to collide, and all the worlds will change with them. The first trailer has arrived for season two of BBC and HBO’s Will Parry (Amir Wilson) joining forces while stranded in a strange new world. But it looks like their story…
Remember it’s not just kids-centric series set in the Trek universe, and now we know what it’s called, and when we’ll be seeing it. Well, when-ish.
Always in motion, the future is, especially in the era of covid-19. And as a result Disney just made some major release date shuffles. Mulan, which was and Star Wars movies have been delayed one year.
Nowhere is safe from light pollution, not even space. On Wednesday, astrophotographer Daniel López Comet NEOWISE the day before at Teide National Park on the Canary Islands. However, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites ruined the image, painting streaks across the otherwise largely pristine sky.
Back in May, when classrooms felt like ancient relics, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he and Bill Gates shall “reimagine” American school with online learning, and the city would create “what education should look like in the future.” We shuddered at the thought of eternal Zoom calls, but…
Good news for people who hate big phones: Yesterday, Apple released the third developer beta of iOS 14, and hidden in the code of the Display Zoom feature is a hint that the iPhone 12 lineup will include a 5.4-inch iPhone.
Lego continues its big push towards positioning its sets as the perfect way for adults to pass the time during the ongoing coronabirus pandemic. But like its other recent releases targeted at adult fans of the building toy, Lego’s new playable Grand Piano comes with a steep price tag that’s…
NASA is set to launch its next rover to Mars on July 31, in what is certain to be an exciting new phase in humanity’s exploration of the Red Planet. Here’s what you’ll want to know about the Perseverance rover and why it’s our best bet yet for finding evidence…
People pace the bus stop at Queensboro Plaza on a Saturday before New York City’s covid-19 shelter-in-place order. They are waiting for the Q100 bus, which serves as the only modes of public transportation with a direct route to Rikers Island, the location of New York City’s largest jail complex….
