Bits: The Byteside Blog
Pokemon GO officially good for your brain – but is it still true in 2020?
Research shows how good Pokemon GO can be for mood and memory, but have pandemic lockdowns – and recent game changes – hurt the experience?
SpaceX Starlink satellite internet gets first pricing announcement
Starlink keen beans have been contacted about signing up fo the "Better Than Nothing" beta experience, with price and speed announced.
007, take the bloody streaming deal or risk losing it all
No Time To Die may have no time at all if it doesn't take a chance and go the streaming route before everyone has given up on it.
Dan Golding on his ARIA nomination for the Untitled Goose Game
We talk to Golding about converting a game soundtrack into a linear format, what the nomination means to him, and what he's working on next.
Spot the robodog visits Chernobyl, sure to gain new radioactive powers now
OK, sending robot dogs into dangerous areas is the entire point of robots. And here's some footage showing how it's done. For science.
Facebook helps boost NYU research project monitoring its ads – by suing it
Facebook goes after an NYU research plugin designed to give greater transparency to political adverts.
NASA confirms the Moon has more water than than we thought
From supporting human habitation to being converted into rocket fuel, here's why that Moon water is such an exciting discovery.
Facebook continues Oculus woes, account deletion wipes purchases
When your delightful virtual reality headset conflicts with your desire to stop being trapped in the big bad social network.
Samsung's new displays to eliminate screen door effect in VR
OLED screens with 10,000 pixels per inch? Samsung and Stanford University are ready to push that V so much closer to the R.
UNO taking a sustainable step forward with all paper edition
A new entirely paper edition of Uno is not only more sustainable, it's prettier too! So what was it made from before? We have the answer.
Attention, distraction and Quibi
It will go down in history as one of the great failures of the digital age. Almost $2 billion spent on a Hollywood-backed, highly-polished, mobile-only, episodic streaming video service that will be long forgotten with no sense of loss whatsoever. We talked about Quibi on the Byteside podcast a lot
Australian-made hydrogen energy storage tech ready to launch
A UNSW research sping-off is ready to sell you hydrogen-based battery with larger and longer lasting energy storage than ever before.
Your excitable history lesson on Netflix's Blood of Zeus
Our resident historian goes deep on what Greek myths the new Netflix anime looks like it will be digging into.
SSC Tuatara blitzes Bugatti, sets new speed record over 500km/h
It wasn't that long ago 400km/h was the barrier, and now the SSC Tuatara has smashed through 500. Amazing.
Billie Eilish upcoming livestream gig plays with an XR experience
An interesting experiment in digital concert livestreaming also feels like a fun, accessible way to catch some live music.
These classic-but-electric roadsters are retro dreamtastic
We would very much like one of these ultra classy looking electric roadsters to be the future of all electric cars.
We found the perfect way to play Genshin Impact
If you're looking for the best way to optimise your time playing Genshin Impact, we've found it.
Uncovered: how does Valve decide what to show you on Steam's front page?
Valve has offered up a video primer on how on Earth those games get recommended to you on the Steam front door.
New Photoshop AI features make it easier than ever to pretend you know what you're doing
Neural filters, sky replacement technology and ridiculous edge detection takes how good / creepy Photoshop can be to yet another level.
The great coffee conundrum
Is there a way to enjoy convienient coffee ethically? Probably not. Am I a monster for enjoying coffee pods? It's complicated. But yes.
