After putting nearly all of its eggs in one virtual basket, Meta is now looking for ways to make the... | Continue reading
A series of NASA rockets will be launched into space from the Arnhem Space Centre in the Northern Territory. The first is ready for Sunday. | Continue reading
Energy provider ReAmped Energy is urging its customer base to switch providers, amid concerns that its power prices could almost double. | Continue reading
RMIT has suggested precincts within Melbourne’s CBD could pilot a new type of digital economic infrastructure, a 'Docklands DAO'. | Continue reading
Tesla has a problem, and it's one not too many people are talking about outside of Jalopnik: Its racism against Black employees. We've covered it extensively: the $US1 ($1) million settlement the company had to pay over racial slurs; the $US137 ($190) million discrimination settl … | Continue reading
Most of us have been using YouTube for years, and so you probably don’t think much about all of its... | Continue reading
If the future of automobiles is truly going to be electric — and at the moment that’s what it looks... | Continue reading
NFT bots have met their match in the form of t-shirt bots stealing their 'exclusive' works. Here's how it's all going down. | Continue reading
If you were born after Wi-Fi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the... | Continue reading
Public research labs in France are temporarily halting their work into prions, after at least two employees are believed to... | Continue reading
The Nissan Leaf e+ is finally hitting Australia. I got to spend a few hours with one and have some initial thoughts on the brand new EV. | Continue reading
Over the weekend, people who own Cricut’s crafting machines — which are printer-like devices that can precisely slice up documents — learned of an upcoming update that will limit how often they can use the machines they’ve paid for. The company, whose cheapest machine is around $ … | Continue reading
It used to be a joke, but it’s not so funny anymore. Google is threatening to block searches in Australia if the country implements a compulsory profit-sharing deal that would force tech giants like Google and Facebook to pay media companies for their content. But Australia’s Pri … | Continue reading
Don’t do it. Most people aren’t going to experiment with navigating to root Windows 10 folders, but just in case anyone might be digging around in the software guts of their PC, it’s best to stay away from inputting this file path into your browser: “.globalrootdevicecondrvkernel … | Continue reading
Sydney-based Levitas Capital has shut after a major investor pulled its funds in the wake of a cyberattack caused by a fake Zoom invite. | Continue reading
It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept – first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s – was mainly an inspiration for write … | Continue reading
Perhaps there is a world, in a distant galaxy, where I am being paid $S6,000 a word to write this introduction. In that world, I’d almost certainly feel compelled to make it as long as possible — to ruminate at length on the philosophical implications of the multiverse, perhaps e … | Continue reading
Knowing the differences between every NBN connection, and which you have, can be confusing. But don't worry, we're here to explain them all. | Continue reading
Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Incredibly, there are still millions of people using 19-year-old operating system. And a recent development — if it bears out — is another reason people need to make the switch to something newer. … | Continue reading
You know that clip of Steve Carell from The Office where he’s shouting “No, God! No, God, please no! No! No! Nooooooooo!” That’s how I feel about Amazon’s announcement that it’s adding a new service to Alexa for landlords. It’s called Alexa for Residential that, according to Amaz … | Continue reading
It started back in 1998 as an April Fool’s Day gag. Written up by Larry Masinter of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), error code 418 — “I’m a teapot” — was nothing more than a poke at the “many bad HTTP extensions that had been proposed”. Despite its existence... | Continue reading
This Flight Simulator glitch is the result of a typo from a bored 25 year-old architectural student in Melbourne, Australia. | Continue reading
A new text-based simulator promises to show what life is like in Cessnock, a regional Australian town, and it's not afraid to offend. | Continue reading
The Telstra network is down due to a malicious cyberattack targeting DNS servers. Here's what we know and a way you might be able to fix it. | Continue reading
It never came close to realising its creators’ aspirations of developing a cheap $60 laptop that could introduce kids from all over world—even those in developing nations—to the personal computer. But the OLPC XO-1, the first device released by the One Laptop Per Child organisati … | Continue reading
Comfortable, good-looking VR headsets might not be available in the near future, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be available at all. According to VentureBeat, Facebook is researching a holographic optics design that would slim down present-day VR headsets from their bulky, bric … | Continue reading
I get it. The Kindle and its ability to shop for and instantly buy books anywhere using wifi or Whispernet are incredibly convenient, and it’s what’s made Amazon’s hardware the obvious choice for consuming ebooks. But supporting awful companies like Amazon is getting harder and h … | Continue reading
New war, same as the old war. We’re so used to Star Wars’ cyclical saga at this point, we were just waiting for The High Republic to reveal some ancient evil or lingering secret Imperial force that could put its generation of Jedi at their peak to the test. Turns... | Continue reading
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to various AWS environments.... | Continue reading
A man has taken to Twitter after discovering telco giant, Optus, had used his driver's licence as an example for their sign-up verification form. | Continue reading
During the few days I spent in Seoul recently I noticed something interesting. Something I had never seen in any other country before. Many of the cars had something unconventional in common -- small blue sponges on the doors. I was intrigued, confused even. I had to find out wh … | Continue reading
I saw an article recently documenting how Tesloop, a Southern California car shuttle service that only operates Teslas, has some of the highest-mileage Teslas in the world, with many having 480,000 kilometres on the clock. The important part here, though, is that maintenance-wise … | Continue reading
Disney made a lot of promises for its streaming service—many of which, as far as its content is concerned, it kept. But the service itself, Disney+, so far is messy, unreliable, and riddled with bugs.... | Continue reading
Astronomers have uncovered a star leaving the galaxy at an extremely fast pace. They also found out why. Turns out, it was unceremoniously booted out by The Milky Way's supermassive black hole.... | Continue reading
Inspired by the way diving bell spiders and fire ants use their water-repelling legs and bodies to trap air in order to float on water, researchers from the University of Rochester have found a way to make solid metal structures float on water, potentially paving the way for unsi … | Continue reading
As video games give players more freedom to explore complex digital worlds, it becomes more challenging for a CG character to naturally move and interact with everything in it. So to prevent those awkward transitions between pre-programmed movements, researchers have turned to AI … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Jezebel reported on a questionable Ernst & Young training program in the U.S. In addition to promoting tired gender stereotypes regarding corporate leadership, the program described women's brains as pancakes that have trouble focusing, and men's as waffles tha … | Continue reading
With all the talk of 5G this year, it was just a matter of time before someone decided to pull the plug on 3G. And it looks like Telstra will be the first telco off the rank.... | Continue reading
From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines that corporations, governments and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our … | Continue reading
Last year, Facebook launched Portal, its first hardware device, to tepid reviews. Today, Facebook is proving it can’t take a hint and is announcing three new Portal products: the Portal Mini, Portal TV, and a redesigned Portal.... | Continue reading
Voting machines weren’t the only thing getting penetrated at DEF CON this year. | Continue reading
In Elon Musk’s mind-brain, the future is autonomous cars (Teslas) getting sucked into the earth and then fired through tunnels at speed in a clean, orderly new system for navigating cities. The reality has... not quite been that good. Now in Las Vegas, Musk’s tunnelling venture i … | Continue reading
You know what none of us needs more of in our homes? Amazon products. And yet that’s exactly what’s promised to prospective homebuyers should they decide to purchase through its new U.S.-based TurnKey service. The company will reportedly gift thousands of dollars in products and … | Continue reading
Because of its free and open-source nature, VLC is one of, if not the most popular cross-platform media player in the world. Unfortunately, a newfound and potentially very serious security flaw discovered in VLC means you might want to uninstall it until the folks at the VideoLAN … | Continue reading
Extremely serious Tesla CEO Elon Musk sure does love an Easter Egg. If you delve into the various sections settings of a Tesla you'll find a tonne of hidden goodies. Some add comfort, convenience and practicality to the luxury EV. Others make you wonder what kind of cooked unit … | Continue reading
Few people could walk into a brand new company and say “I have an idea for you, but the technology has to be invented for it.” Steven Spielberg, however, is one of those people.... | Continue reading
Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down into the upper mantle, bits of carbon, some likely hailing from long-dead life forms were melted and compressed into rigid lattices. … | Continue reading
We’re talking, of course, about the Hulk. | Continue reading