Technology
Airspeeder EXA Series: will this be the Grand Prix of flying car racing?
South Australia played host to flight tests for a new electric flying race car that aims to become an elite race sport by next year.
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Culture
Xena 20 years on: how the warrior princess changed television
20 years on, we revisit this great show and how it was loved by ancient history buffs to sci-fi fans and the LGBTQ community.
Business
Brave launches Brave Search beta for no tracking alternative to Google
The privacy-focused browser Brave is adding a new zero tracking alternative to Google to its line up of user-first software services.
Games
Hideo Kojima’s latest secret project? Inside the Blue Box Conspiracy
Is Blue Box real? Is Hasan Kahraman? Or is Abandoned a cleverly disguised launch of the Kojima project everyone has been wishing for?
Digital capitulation
Friday, June 18, 2021 We’re on holiday next week so we’ll be back with more Byteside Daily on June 29. Big outage another CDN error: Yesterday afternoon, a major outage occurred that impacted a wide range of Australian institutions, including major banks and their mobile apps, Virgin Australia
Amazon hates social media too
Thursday, June 17, 2021 “No cops, please, it’s COVID”: This week, the Western Australian government has introduced legislation to limit the use of COVID check-in app data after the WA Police Force accessed the information in two investigations of serious crimes, which is allowed under the existing rules. To
Games
Making games about memory and longing
Transforming a letter to a friend who passed away into a videogame? We profile Cécile Richard on their AGDA winning game and what drives their love for indie development.
Crop waste: the new jet fuel
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 Power to enforce cybersecurity: The Australian Signals Directorate, our national spy agency, wants to see laws introduced to compel organisations to cooperate in the event of a hack or ransomware attack, after a recent incident saw a company refuse assistance and ultimately become reinfected within months
"A shameful chapter"
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 It’s virtual E3 season, with dozens of major games announcements over the weekend. Here’s just a few of that caught our eye. Starfield won’t PlayStation: Bethesda’s Starfield had its first game footage, though still incredibly vague apart from the obvious “you’ll
Computers
What does the end of HyperX mean for Kingston? Righteous Fury
Kingston Technology sold HyperX to HP, but it still owns the memory lines – so it needed a new name. Turns out the name isn't all that new...
Games
I built a tiny gaming PC and I'm never going back
It's a tough market for PC parts, but one intrepid gamer built an SFF PC and found it to be exactly the task he was looking for.
Media
Microsoft wants you to know you might never buy another Xbox again
In a pre-E3, pre-main Xbox press conference video, Nadella and Spencer delved into the future of Xbox not needing an Xbox at all.