The list of US figures whose Twitter accounts were hijacked by scammers on Wednesday US time reads like a Who’s Who of the tech and celebrity worlds: Tesla boss Elon Musk, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former president Barack Obama, current Democratic nominee Joe Biden, celebrities Kanye…
Online retailer Kogan has been found guilty of creating fake discounts that are in breach of Australian Consumer Law. Kogan fake tax time discounts The Federal Court has found that Kogan ran a misleading promotion between June 27 — June 30 2018. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) first…
The Chevy Sonic is dead. So is the Toyota Yaris. So is the Ford Fiesta. The Chevy Spark, Kia Rio, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Versa, and Mini Hardtop are all still sold here, and the Honda Fit is too, but maybe not for long. For my money, though, I’m increasingly in…
A handful of Peacock’s titles have or are shortly set to vanish from the brand new streaming service. Here’s why that’s happening so soon after its launch.
NASA hopes to launch the much-anticipated James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana on October 31, 2021, the agency announced today. Ongoing technical challenges and the covid-19 pandemic were cited as reasons for the latest delay to the project.
Just to get this out of the way: Yes, it is bizarre that a device called BlazePod has nothing to do with vaping weed. What else could it possibly be? Officially, BlazePod is a modular fitness gadget that supposedly helps you train your agility, strength, balance, and focus. Unofficially, it…
“Disney speed-dialling Grant Morrison, presumably.
For the past two weeks, US officials have been grilling TikTok and other China-based tech giants over potential concerns surrounding the data security of Americans who use these apps, not to mention the national security implications of these apps’ alleged allegiance to the Chinese government. Now, it’s looking like the…
TikTok is facing a widespread crackdown due to security concerns, which has left Facebook an opening to take down the rival social network. The company will use Instagram to do it, just like it did with Instagram Stories to keep Snapchat at bay. Instagram launched a new TikTok-esque feature, Reels, in India…
Undoubtedly, Richard Linklater is one of our most underrated filmmakers. For the past 30 years, he’s been quietly making masterpiece after masterpiece, and while only a few of those venture into sci-fi (mainly Waking Life and), his next film sounds like it’s doing that and so much more.
Microsoft has been testing its xCloud will leave beta and become available to the public in September as an addition to Xbox’s $US15 ($21) a month Game Pass Ultimate.
Even in the best-case scenario for the 2020 election, in which America flushes Donald Trump out of office and we can feel like we’ve showered for the first time since 2015, the toilet plume of this presidency will likely hang over us for years to come. After numerous reports on…
Are you a frontline worker dealing with new stresses or irresponsible management? Is working (or not working) from home starting to take a psychological toll? How are you coping with reopening? Submit a story using this Google form or send me an email with the subject line “My Covid Story” and…
The U.S. is now firmly in the middle of a second peak of the covid-19 pandemic, if still nestled inside its first wave. But given the rapid spread of the coronavirus during a time of the year when many similar diseases tend to lay low, it’s worth exploring: Why isn’t…
Saleen is really, um, confusing. They’re one of those companies that somehow keeps hanging on, despite always seeming to be on the brink and a company who’s biggest recent news was about allegedly bringing back their 20-year-old supercar. But Saleen is more than that. Saleen is also about some gloriously…
Trigger warning: if you’re not a fan of flying, the following video explains how nearly once every three days, a large commercial jet crashes, a tenth of which resulted in fatalities over the last decade. While that’s considered a safe statistic, it means airlines need a protocol for when it…
When you experience something with your senses, it evokes complex patterns of activity in your brain. One important goal in neuroscience is to decipher how these neural patterns drive the sensory experience. For example, can the smell of chocolate be represented by a single brain cell, groups of cells firing…
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On Thursday high profiles accounts such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Apple began tweeting a bitcoin scam. Twitter has since stopped verified accounts from tweeting in the midst of this large-scale hack. Verified accounts can’t tweet Twitter is yet to confirm exactly who has been impacted by the the…
Friends, I wish I had something more profound to say. But I’ve been having a really good time rewatching Kathryn Janeway get her Ellen Ripley on in a viral pandemic.
Foxtel’s new streaming Service, Binge, is running a competition that awards winners the opportunity to write free reviews for News Corp publications. This comes after the closure of 14 mastheads and the loss of hundreds of jobs across News Corp over the past few months. This post was originally published…
This may look like the president possibly violating ethics rules by posing with several Goya products in a blurry Instagram photo to spite a loosely organised boycott over the company’s pro-Trump CEO. But watch out there, Mr. Trump: One of those delicious Goya foodstuffs is filled with bees.
Back in February, when we all still thought movies might be coming out, we were dazzled by our first look at David Lowery’s The Green Knight, which cast Dev Patel in a dark Arthurian fantasy. We have no idea when we’ll get to see the film ” but the studio’s…
Hong Kong has been a leader in the fight against the novel coronavirus, with just 1,589 cases and eight deaths, despite sharing a border with mainland China, the location of the first covid-19 outbreak back in December of 2019. And while some of Hong Kong’s success can be credited to…
Scientists have found evidence that climate change was behind the relentless heat wave that stuck over Siberia this year.
Microsoft just can’t catch a break with all its updates that seem to cause more problems. The company rolled out a Windows 10 update yesterday which fixed a major DNS security flaw (and a few other things), but in the process might have removed Notepad, Paint, or WordPad for some…
For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human poop, as an important new analysis shows.
Phone charging speeds have gotten pretty good over the last few years, but today, Oppo may have revealed what might be the fastest smartphone power brick in the world.
Talk about an untested vaccine. In the debut trailer for the third and final season of Netflix’s The Rain, the man who controls the most deadly virus in history plans to infect the rest of the world so they can all be like him. But is succumbing to the disease…
Grieving is an experience almost everyone will go through at some point in their life. And is something we often have no control over. It isn’t just humans either. There is plenty of evidence, albeit anecdotal, that other mammals, particularly primates, stay close to their dead relatives or babies –…
You may remember when US President Donald Trump suggested exposing coronavirus patients to UV (ultraviolet) light – or “just very powerful light” – to help treat them. The use of UV light is not, in any way, a viable treatment for people infected with SARS-CoV-2. However, due to its powerful…
If you’re in the market to buy an ereader in North America, Amazon’s Kindle and Rakuten’s Kobo are really the only two options if you want access to a well-stocked ebook store. Today the latter revealed its alternative to the current cheapest Kindle model with the new $149.95 Kobo Nia,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is nearing the threshold to have stock options worth around $US2.4 ($3) billion available to him, the second of 12 tranches of options worth potentially tens of billions. It’s a big, possibly scandalous amount of money for a CEO! It will also be very difficult for…
The Simpsons introduced many of us to St Swithin’s Day, and it’s actually real. Falling on July 15 it’s all about weather folklore.
