John Biggs
Facebook on Wednesday announced a crackdown on a range of extremist communities on its social networks, including the increasingly mainstream QAnon and not a moment too soon.
If you haven’t already heard, California is on fire. Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for the disaster unfurling. The U.S. state is in the middle of a dramatic heat wave, which is fuelling more than 30 wildfires burning across the state. The situation appears to…
There are two Pinocchio projects in play right now — the live-action Disney film directed by Robert Zemeckis and probably starring Tom Hanks, and the stop-motion animated version that Guillermo del Toro’s been making for Netflix. The latter just added a ton of star power with its full cast announcement…
Zoom is one of those programs that none of us are particularly fond of, but that we’re all kind of stuck with — especially if you’re one of the students or teachers that’s going to be stuck in remote-learning hell this coming semester. Now it looks like the platform’s about…
I’ve been searching for years for an Android smartwatch that I could confidently recommend as being as good as, if not better than, the Apple Watch. Well, the search is over. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is that smartwatch.
Since the Apple Watch Series 4, wearable makers have been scrambling to add electrocardiogram functions to their smartwatches. Now, leaked renders from WinFuture suggest that Fitbit is ready to introduce its own ECG-capable smartwatch, along with an updated Inspire 2 tracker and… unsurprisingly, a Versa 3.
When we first met the Empire in Star Wars’ original trilogy, their fascist roots in the real world iconography of forces like the Nazis were immediately apparent: not just in their stark uniforms and the dehumanising armour of the Stormtroopers, but in the whiteness of their officers. But when we…
You could make the case that stemming misinformation on social media is about as feasible as beheading a hydra, even the people running said platforms were inclined towards monster-slaying (which many decidedly aren’t). A convincing conspiracy video can become national news within a matter of hours in the midst of…
On Friday and Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Californians had their power cut for a spurt in the evening. And more of this could be in store in the coming days as record breaking heat beats down on the state and wildfires burn out of control.
For a company that started out making add-on lenses for smartphones, Moment has quickly grown into a purveyor of a wide range of camera and home office gear. But with Moment’s new line of Travelwear, Moment is taking a big step by going up against some of the biggest names…
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is requesting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) block even more offshore gambling sites that are in breach of Australian laws. In 2020 there have been several rounds of gambling site blocks by ACMA. The most recent request was made just this week as will impact…
This week, Mercedes-Benz opened its order books in the United Kingdom for its new eSprinter line of vans. It’s the same best-selling Sprinter van with enough batteries to haul you and your stuff a humble 154 km of range on a full charge. Here’s why Mercedes thinks that’s enough.
A few weeks ago, the YouTuber who goes by Warped Perception published a video showing what goes on inside a car tyre while driving. That same channel now has a new video that also shows the innards of a tyre, but instead of motoring down the road, the car is…
Electric vehicle sales in Australia tripled in 2019 despite the lack of incentives from the government. But we still have a long way to go. A new report, released by industry body Electric Vehicle Council (EVC), details the rise in electric vehicle (EV) sales from 2,216 to 6,718, while petrol…
Google Maps is getting a colourful new update in the coming weeks, adding terrain and street-level granularity to its UI that, after 15 years, was in desperate need of a makeover.
I feel like I’ve been doing too much Instagram scrolling, so thought I might share some of my findings with you. That way I can write the time off as “work” and feel productive! But you actually will like some of these, I’m sure of it.
In 2017 Hayley Williams wrote an article about Australia’s most intriguing unexplained phenomena. From strange boulder clusters to vanishing ships, the list covered off some of the more wild parts of the Australian environment and its history, but there are plenty more mysteries that we haven’t yet covered. Here are…
Mulan isn’t the only one who will bring honour to us all. Disney has released a new behind-the-scenes look at its live-action adaptation of Mulan. It shows how star Liu Yifei brought her acting and martial arts talents to the project, and how Donnie Yen was so quick with a…
Oracle has expressed interest in buying TikTok from Chinese-based tech company Bytedance, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to ban the popular video app, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The Trump regime is allegedly concerned about the privacy of Americans on TikTok and ways that the…
Back in 2005, before the iPhone, Apple purportedly helped a U.S. Department of Energy contractor modify a 5th-generation iPod to secretly record and store data. The exact reason why remains a mystery, but an ex-Apple engineer involved in the project thinks it could have been a surreptitious Geiger counter.
Democratic presidential ticket Joe Biden and Kamala Harris both came out against fossil fuel subsidies during their respective White House primary bids. But the party they now lead removed language doing the same at the last minute from its national platform.
In this new clip from Bill & Ted Face the Music, the mysterious Kelly (Kristen Schaal) arrives seeking the dude duo’s help in a time-travel vessel that is decidedly not a phone booth. Who is she, exactly? Watch and see.
It’s official. Starting this October, a Facebook account will be mandatory for all future Oculus headsets. While there’ll be a grace period for anyone with a separate Oculus account, Facebook will end support for those on January 1, 2023.
“Guess,” says my boyfriend, as he now does every morning, before turning on the coffee kettle. “Fifteen,” I reply without looking up from my laptop. “You owe me ten bucks,” he beams. “Way over fifty.” He means fruit flies, of course.
In case your smartphone tracking your travels, web browsing, dating history, job changes, diet changes, shopping habits, and general content consumption wasn’t enough for you, there’s good news. Soon, the little snitch in all of our pockets might be able to tell us when we’re plastered just by measuring a…
Early this month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the “Clean Network” plan, a trade war offensive aiming to cut Chinese tech companies off from United States consumers. Before a numb and beleaguered public could wrap its head around such a plan, Trump dispatched a pair of chaotic executive…
After 16 weeks in an industrial compost heap, we unearthed blue and white balloons and found them totally unscathed. The knots we spent hours painstakingly tying by hand more than four months ago were still attached, and sparkly blue balloons still glinted in the sun. These balloons originally came from…
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Wrangler calls it the find of a lifetime. We’ll just have to decide if this Cummins-powered monster will require a life-time of wages to buy.
Earlier this year NBN Co announced new NBN 250 and NBN 1000 speed tiers. Since then a few telcos have began offering these plans, and now Kogan is one of them. Not only that, it has the cheapest NBN 1000 plan in Australia. Kogan NBN 1000 plans If you’re keen…
The world is hoping a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine will soon become available. So far, more than 160 candidate vaccines are in development. Some 31 of these have entered human clinical trials. One of them is Russia’s “Sputnik V”, which was granted approval by the country’s health ministry last…
Now that Galaxy Unpacked has finally been and gone, we thought we’d get a breather from Samsung leaks for a bit. But no! For this is Hell Year, and in Hell Year all things are terrible (except cats). The usual “people familiar with the matter” have been talking about what…
Apple is expanding support for its independent repair provider program to include its Mac computers. That means more options for consumers, but it’s important to remember Apple’s independent repair support is still very much on Apple’s conditions.
Presumably this time he didn’t have to roll around in the mud on Netflix’s behalf.
