Quite often in today’s world, we’re so focused on editing, sharing, and posting our photos, we often forget to enjoy the simple things like just grabbing a camera, hitting the streets, and seeing what you run into. But with the new X-Pro3, Fujifilm is looking to blend the best things…
Proposed laws paving the way for a facial recognition database in Australia have been abandoned after a parliamentary report found they required stronger protections for the privacy of citizens.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed with the Circuit Court of Broward County, Florida earlier this month alleges the motorised retractable door handles on the Tesla Model S prevented the rescue of the driver as smoke and flames filled the cabin.
It’s 6 p.m. on a Sunday night in San Francisco, and I’m surrounded by people screaming animal noises.
Staff at Google are wary that the company may be building “an internal surveillance tool” with the purpose of crushing employee dissent, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
A lot of people attend motor shows to see the latest and greatest in luxury sports cars. However, if you don’t care about torque or top speeds, there’s the Toyota i-ROAD – an insanely cute three-wheeled smartcar that’s only slightly bigger than a motorcycle. We took one out for a…
At IFA this year Sonos unveiled its very first bluetooth speaker – the Sonos Move. As the name suggests, its portable. And while that’s true in theory, we had a little trouble justifying ever taking this out of the house.
2019 has been the year of the delayed foldables. After a few false starts and showing it off on the down low at IFA, Huawei is finally releasing its bendy Mate X. But you won’t be able to get it in Australia yet.
Scarlett Johansson says Black Widow is truly gone in the post-Endgame Marvel world. Jason Momoa teases a somehow bigger Aquaman 2. Joel Edgerton would be up to return to the Lars Homestead for the Obi-Wan show. Plus, new Frozen II pictures, new footage from Terminator: Dark Fate, and a look…
For the 36,000 people living in and around Paradise, California, the Camp Fire is a definitive moment that cleaved life into a before period and an after one.
The New York Attorney General’s office has been pursuing Exxon for years for everything from climate denial to fraud. The oil company that made billions while funding climate denial has tried to avoid ending up in court. But despite its best efforts, Exxon went on trial in a New York…
After a decade of improvements in air pollution, the U.S. is backsliding. And that means more people are dying prematurely, according to new research. The paper authors don’t point to a specific reason why the increase happened, but the numbers are clear that it occurred under the presidency of Donald…
For years, the Islamic State has used popular social media platforms networks Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and YouTube to recruit across the world — so of course, TikTok, one of the fastest-growing platforms, has been used to push ISIS propaganda.
Forty-seven U.S. state attorneys general have now joined a sweeping investigation into Facebook’s business practices aimed at determining whether the company has engaged in anti-competitive behaviour, ignored privacy laws, or violated any other laws, according to the New York Attorney General’s office.
It’s rare that we have enough foresight to determine which moments in time will prove to be historical turning points for societal change. But when the kingdom of Saudi Arabia allowed women to begin driving in June of 2018, just about everyone could tell that it would be a moment…
Everything about Rick and Morty’s fourth season has been an event, from its limbo, to its mere existence, to its renewal — and that’s even before we get to actually see the damn thing. So why not treat episode titles with the same haughty status as Netflix does for its…
Fans aren’t the only ones raving about the new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The actors involved in the film are doing so too, and we’ve compiled all their reactions.
The Lambert Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Richmond has trained rats to drive miniature motorised cars to reach food. They taught rats how to drive.
As 2019 creeps ever closer to its merciful end, there’s plenty we’re glad to be leaving in the rearview mirror. Much of the last decade — particularly the tail end of it — has felt like a haunted carnival funhouse in which each new room serves up a surreal and…
Some of Microsoft’s new Surface range is available for Australians from today if you’re in the market for a sleek, little companion.
It’ll require a few more years — and thousands of more satellites — before SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation achieves full functionality, but that didn’t stop Elon Musk from participating in an early test of the system, which apparently worked.
After a month of blistering criticism over Facebook’s decision to help more politicians lie in online advertisements, the company has conveniently announced an update on its efforts to shield American voters from the misinformation chronically afflicting its platform.
WeWork just may live to order another keg of complimentary kombucha.
When you think “rally car,” you’re probably not thinking “Toyota Tacoma.” But you, my friend, would be missing out on the very wonderful world of absolutely sending it behind the wheel of a pickup for one hell of a great time.
A New England artist is communicating local impacts of climate change using science, location, and a little bit of hope. Thomas Starr has placed plaques throughout Essex, Massachusetts and Durham, New Hampshire as part of his new project “Remembrance of Climate Futures” to show the changes that’ll roll through these…
NASA has worked hard to prevent microbes from hitching rides on our spacecraft and spreading around the solar system, but the agency’s tactics are now woefully out of date. A new report outlines the changes needed to modernise NASA’s planetary protection policies and prevent our germs from contaminating scientifically important…
The first trailer for Bloodshot has arrived, and Vin Diesel (looking very Vin Diesel) is on a mission to avenge his lost love, aided only by his desire for payback… and one billion nanobots.
To the delight of brooding geeks everywhere, HBO has a new TV series based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ iconic graphic novel Watchmen, and going off the first episode alone, it looks to be complex and engaging and very well done. I’m not going to spoil anything for anyone,…
By its very nature, the meta horror-comedy Zombieland: Double Tap has its fair share of surprises. The biggest, though, comes during the credits. That is… if you haven’t seen the red band trailer.
Scientists have created a new gene-editing technique that overcomes some of the biggest drawbacks of the popular gene-editing tool CRISPR.
Actor Joseph Mawle is going from one epic fantasy franchise to the other.
The world of HBO’s Watchmen sequel is a bizarre one that is both contemporary and, technologically speaking, trapped a few decades in the past. So in that regard, it makes sense that the fantastic soundtrack for the show, by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (of Nine Inch Nails fame, of…
And if that craziness doesn’t make you want to check out this damn show again, I don’t know what will.
