Telco reseller Superfone has been handed $300,000 in fines for cold-calling vulnerable customers & locking them into new contracts.
Australia makes great TV shows and movies. Here’s a few of our local favourites, and where to watch them.
I wouldn’t call what’s happening a meltdown exactly, maybe more of a collective moment of clarity. Right now on Reddit’s r/teslamotors forum there’s an intense and very serious conversation about the now $US10,000 ($13,211) level 2 driver assist package that Tesla calls “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) — specifically, whether the features…
With films like Kill List, High-Rise, and Free Fire, Ben Wheatley has shown an ability to tell stories that are complex, intense, and demand your full attention to truly appreciate them. His latest film, In the Earth, fits in that mould too, except it draws its scares from a whole…
The magic put on display in Elle Callahan’s Witch Hunt — which premiered at the 2021 South by Southwest Film Festival — is somewhat ill-defined. But the movie’s tale of powerful women being persecuted and brutalized for their natural-born gifts is more than recognisable, at least if you’ve been paying…
A new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring.
After decades of Diamond Comics serving as the exclusive distributor of Marvel’s comics to the direct market, the House of Ideas is moving on to greener, slightly less monopolistic pastures in a move that might signal a larger industry shift.
Fans of The Last Starfighter have long dreamed what a sequel to that movie would be. Today, they find out.
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter is already raising questions. Namely, what the heck is that thing on Jack Dorsey’s kitchen counter?
Companies like Apple and Google have struggled to get new products out the door because of the pandemic, so it makes sense that smaller ones would be in the same boat. And while we still don’t know when the long-teased Playdate handheld will be available for preorder, Panic has a…
Just this week we saw OnePlus team up with legendary camera maker Hasselblad to seriously upgrade the photo quality of its latest devices, and now OnePlus’ sister company, Vivo, is doing something similar with Zeiss for its new X60 Pro+.
It’s been a long, long time since the Gargoyles animated series went off the air (1997, if you really want to feel old), but there’s been a bevy of fans who never stopped wishing for the return of Goliath, Brooklyn, and the others. Well, the animated series isn’t getting a…
From the moment Acer announced its redesigned Predator Triton 300 SE at CES, I was hooked on the new look. That stereotypical black-and-red (or sometimes blue, to spice it up) “gaming look” can be aggressive, and it’s also totally obnoxious and uninspired these days. There are a lot of older…
H&M has been purged from maps and internet listings in China after the clothing retailer criticised the use of forced labour in Xinjiang province, the area in northwestern China where Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, have been systematically oppressed by the Chinese government.
Container ships are having a rough time right now. In addition to extreme weather and power outages, ships sailing across the Pacific to the U.S. have lost 2,980 containers in only a few months. That’s more containers lost in just two months than the region usually loses in a whole year.
Have you finally reached a breaking point because your computer’s load times move at a snail’s pace? It’s time to ditch those arduous wait times and give your PC an upgrade. And the best way to do that is by grabbing a reliable solid-state drive. We’ve put together a handy…
Tesla’s user experience team seems to really have it in for the traditional way cars are put into gear. Or, really, it’s not even technically putting the car into “gear” anymore, as much as just selecting a direction of travel, forward or reverse. The traditional ways of automatic transmission shifting…
If you’re a Kickstarter fiend, you might be waiting a good long while for your latest board game.
Given the state of the current GPU market and, well, the PC hardware market as a whole, it would be an interesting business decision for any company to start selling components. But this is 2021, and all logic be damned; GameStop is going to start selling graphic cards in the…
Watch out, firearm lovers. The subtly-named guns.com, a place where Americans can go to pick out whatever stylish boomstick they like and have it shipped straight to their doorstep, seems to have a pretty awful data breach on its hands.
For DC’s Black Adam, the good doctor is in, apparently.
A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.
Clubhouse is prodigious. At just over a year old, the exclusive, invite-only app still doesn’t have a proper website or even an app on more than a single operating system. What it lacks in usability, though, the app store chart-topper makes up in celebrity cache, millions of users, and access…
Scientists on-site at Iceland’s erupting volcano near the capitol city of Reykjavik cooked up some hot dogs on Sunday. What were these scientists studying with such a wacky experiment? The lava dogs weren’t part of their experiments, sadly enough. The scientists were just hungry.
The MyPillow weirdo’s new censorship-free social media network is here and… it’s a website named Frank. Like, it’s actually just named Frank.
In a mind-bending development, a team of researchers in China have managed to treat brain tumours in mice by delivering drugs to the tissues using microscopic robots. The robots jumped from the mice’s bloodstreams into their brains by being coated in E. coli, which tricked the rodents’ immune systems into…
In 2019, a New Jersey high school made national news when it put on a stage production of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien. The production even got the attention of Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver. It was a huge deal because everyone had the exact same thought: “How the hell…
New research presents evidence that activities such as deforestation, building palm oil plantations, and even converting grassy areas into new forests are associated with outbreaks of disease, particularly those transmitted by mosquitoes and other vector animals.
There’s a trope in the climate denial world that rising carbon dioxide levels are good, actually, because it’s helping plants grow. Putting aside that saying that ignores all the deleterious effects on life on Earth, there’s also another issue with the tired talking point.
Back in October, Slack announced it would be intro’ing a product that would allow any paid user — at any organisation — to directly message each other across the platform. On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DM’s for anyone currently paying for their…
The governor of Montana killed a grey wolf in violation of state hunting laws, according to documents obtained by the Mountain West News Bureau. Dude just got into office in January, and now he’s got a warning from state wildlife officials. Incredible start to a new term!
When Apple revealed the iPhone 12 lineup, the company pitched its new MagSafe feature as a way to fix one of the many flaws of wireless charging. What I instead saw with MagSafe was a solution to another smartphone problem I’ve had for years: attaching the phone to a tripod. Moment…
I think one of my favourite states of mind is something I call appreciative bafflement: A state of confusion so deep and profound that you’re genuinely impressed and appreciate the efforts taken to make such confusing, deeply fucked decisions. The Lancia Gamma, especially the fastback Berlina version, is a car…
