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Have you ever been out jogging in cold weather, (ha ha ha, no) watching your moist, hot exhales condense into clouds of alabaster steam and thought to yourself, hey, why can’t we run aeroplanes on this shit? Well, good news! A bunch of scientists must be listening to your brainwaves…
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Earlier this morning U.S. President Donald Trump addressed those who stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. This video has now been removed by YouTube and Facebook and restricted by Twitter due to inclusion of false information regarding the 2020 presidential election. On Thursday morning, Trump supporters mobbed the Capitol,…
Whatever the future holds for the DC Extended Universe, it is unlikely to feature Ray Fisher’s version of Cyborg.
An iOS beta clue seems to point to a forthcoming walking workout feature from Apple.
Pixar is responsible for some of the greatest animated films of our time…and then some of them were milked into franchises. For a time, it seemed like the studio cared more about repeating past successes than creating new ones. But it looks like Pixar’s latest studio head is ready to…
It feels like it’s been forever since we had something new from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so thank god Wanda Maximoff and the Vision are about to show up and serve us some premium ham.
Researchers at UCLA have created a model to distinguish conspiracy theories from actual conspiracies which will possibly allow robots to differentiate between things like Pizzagate and Bridgegate in the future.
Some 33 million people in the U.S., or 1 in 7 Americans, have disabilities related to mobility, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Considered something of a silent health epidemic, the degree to which older and middle-aged Americans struggle with difficulties walking or climbing is immense.
Hisense has announced its 2021 ULED 8K range of televisions and they boast an impressive lineup of features.
The Trump administration is trampling on the Arctic on its way out. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management will auction off the drilling rights for plots on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain on its eastern North Slope, an area currently untouched by developers. The move will encourage…
Intel announced today that it will make its RealSense 3D cameras available for customers hoping to utilise the tech for faster facial recognition in the form of RealSense ID. The move comes months after competitor Amazon shied away from its own facial recognition program, which has been accused of perpetuating…
As a child of the 80s, I didn’t have an Atari, an NES, or even a Sega Master System. My first console was actually our family’s first computer: the Commodore 64. It was a passable gaming system, but more importantly, it was a device that taught me that technology was…
The best meteor showers are a spectacular sight but, unfortunately, 2021 starts with a whimper. Moonlight this January will wash out the first of the big three — the Quadrantids. After that, the year just gets better and better, with the Perseids (another of the big three along with the…
For many of us, coffee is essential. It allows us to function in the morning and gives a much needed boost during the day. But in new research, we revealed the effect that our favourite caffeine hit has on the planet. Weight for weight, coffee produced by the least sustainable…
A threat to fly a plane into the US Capitol building made through an air traffic control system on Tuesday doesn’t appear to be credible, but the FBI is still planning to investigate how the aviation frequency was hacked.
After temporarily pausing its nationwide ban on political advertisements to allow campaign messages about the Georgia senate runoffs, Facebook abruptly reversed course on Tuesday, announcing in a blog post that the ban would resume following the election’s conclusion on Wednesday.
And it’s a branch that, as far as Snyder’s concerned, he’s too busy to explore right now.
Twitter’s track record of eyebrow-raising product decisions continues, as this week, Twitter engineering executive Michael Montano announced the company would be acquiring the 4-year-old “social podcasting” app Breaker in an attempt to flesh out its Clubhouse-esque Spaces product.
When it comes to the rules of the internet, you can always count on two things to be true: crowdsourced projects will fly off the rails, and YouTube commenters are the worst. Despite these foundational principles, YouTuber Sean Hodgins has thrown caution to the wind and hacked together a little…
Space is full of surprises, like this apparent star — which, given the tumultuous circumstances of its formation, shouldn’t really exist.
Hasbro is hoping to supplant billiards, air hockey, and even beer pong as the most popular tabletop drunken pastime by combining foosball with basketball to create a new frankensport called foosketball.
To kick off 2021, Dell just announced what it claims is the world’s first 40-inch curved 5K2K display, and judging by its specs, it might be the ideal high-end display for working from home (maybe make your office pay for it though).
This week, the UK’s Royal Mint announced five new commemorative coins honouring figures like the Queen(!) and Sir Walter Scott. It would’ve been a standard beginning of the new year for the mint, but this year’s edition of collectibles has proven to be controversial as the coin honouring H.G. Wells…
Does this diagram show the secret plans of Bill Gates and his minions to inject 5G chips into the bloodstreams of unsuspecting people who get the covid-19 vaccine? Not quite. But it can sure scoop the hell out of those mids.
Kathryn Hahn’s character of Agnes in WandaVision is garnering a fair bit of attention at the moment. Fans have a theory about her identity.
Slack’s worldwide outage was hardly noticed here in Australia, but we can still experience it through the memes.
After weeks of rumours, Samsung has finally announced its next Galaxy Unpacked Event scheduled for January 14, and it couldn’t have come at a better time because recently a number of new leaks have spilled the beans on what we’re expecting to see at Samsung’s next big product showcase.
Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a preemptive effort to foster a climate hospitable to human life. To the “anti-contamination” school of celestial thought, this was heresy; to the most others, this was an obscure theoretical squabble…
The Mandalorian may be over for now, but the next chapter in Star Wars begins this week. Star Wars: The High Republic finally debuts tomorrow with the release of several books and comics set generations before the Skywalker Saga. You’ve been hearing about it for a while, and it’s finally…
British actress Barbara Shelley, known for starring in several Hammer Horror classics as well as a key role in 1984 Doctor Who storyline Planet of Fire, has passed away at the age of 88.
Warning: This article deals with the topic of suicide and may be triggering for some. If you or someone you love is in need of support, please contact Lifeline: 13 11 14 A judge in the UK ruled on Monday that Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange should not be extradited to…
Adobe Flash, the multimedia software platform that powered so many pre-YouTube animated videos like Homestar Runner, is officially ancient technology. As of December 31, 2020, Adobe stopped supporting the software, and now Microsoft is telling every Windows 10 user it’s time to ditch it if they haven’t already.
Thanks to global warming, climate disasters are set to impact pretty much every corner of the world, but of course, some places are getting hit first and worst. A new federal report shows which parts of the U.S. are most in danger.
