Technology
Slow down for 'new phone' day
When upgrading to a new phone, it's worth taking the moment to think about everything you do with it.
SteelSeries Rival 5 review: nine buttons are great – if you can reach them
Extra buttons are great for so many games, but we're not quite sure who has hands that can use them all effectively.
Answering the call
Phones have fallen victim to becoming an open platform with no barriers to entry and a simple system for computational calling to make it a breeze for scammers.
Australia's COVID-19 vaccine certificate now load into digital wallets
Apple Wallet and Google Pay support is now available for Australian COVID-19 vaccination certificates through the latest Medicare app update.
Google's Pixel 6 new chip and camera raise the bar for Android phones
A cheeky reveal shows a new 'camera bar' with optical zoom and a new Google Tensor SoC that together make the Pixel 6 a big step forward.
Nokia X20 review: an 'average' phone ready to take you to 2025
The Nokia X20 feels slightly less than ideal, but nothing is a dealbreaker – it just wants to be a reliable phone for years to come.
Toshiba Canvio Gaming Portable Storage deletes your uninstall anxiety
These new drives are designed to run HDD storage optimised for game console needs at an impressively affordable price.
How 'The Million Dollar Homepage' has aged, and what it means for digital history
Researchers look back on the seminal marketing website and check the active links – and debate how to improve digital archives in future.
Dogecoin's co-creator really, really hates all things crypto these days
"Built primarily to amplify wealth [through] tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity." Ouch.
Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds
Seven minutes of behind the scenes as the Forza Horizon sound crew capture a bunch of cars hooning up and down an old track.
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch
The most phallic rocket yet is scheduled for launch. Here's when and how to watch. Whatever you think of Bezos, Wally Funk is the real deal!
How the iPad Pro brings play back to art
After a few months using the iPad Pro for art, it’s clear to see why so many pros choose the device and its software.
Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia
Sit in a waterlogged Bentley 60 metres deep in a mega pool in Dubai? Is this a theme park or social commentary?
A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Digital artists getting paid thanks to NFTs is great. Movies and companies creating NFTs to score some free promotional value suck.
Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race
Billionaires posturing over commercial spaceflight is the ultimate cockfight, but with Virgin below 100km up everyone gets to say 'First!'
Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute
New research shows elite free divers incredible control puts them in the same oxygen management league as dolphins, seals and whales.
LEGO is prototyping bricks made from recycled bottle plastics
The company is investing $400M into sustainability projects, including turning recycled PET plastics into LEGO. And research is going well.
Telstra and TPG just defragged the airwaves to make your 4G faster
Without being forced to, Telstra and TPG just restacked their wireless spectrum allocations to make things smoother for users in many cities.
Google kicks app with 5.8M downloads for stealing Facebook logins
Photo editors, horoscopes, and fitness apps amongst the genres found to be intercepting Facebook login data across nine apps.
The freedom to Sonos Roam: a review after two months usage
After using the Sonos Roam for two months, is it still good? And how does it compare to the more expensive Sonos Move?
