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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.

Australia's COVID-19 vaccine certificate now load into digital wallets
Gear

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.

Google's Pixel 6 new chip and camera raise the bar for Android phones
Gear

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.

Nokia X20 review: an 'average' phone ready to take you to 2025
Computers

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.

Toshiba Canvio Gaming Portable Storage deletes your uninstall anxiety
Technology

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.

Dogecoin's co-creator really, really hates all things crypto these days
Culture

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.

How the iPad Pro brings play back to art
Technology

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?

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia
Technology

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.

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Big Ideas

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!'

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race
Technology

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.

Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute
Big Ideas

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.

LEGO is prototyping bricks made from recycled bottle plastics
Networks

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.

Telstra and TPG just defragged the airwaves to make your 4G faster
Security

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.

Google kicks app with 5.8M downloads for stealing Facebook logins
Technology

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?

The freedom to Sonos Roam: a review after two months usage
Media

Twitter launched the thing we've all been waiting for... some NFTs???

Yes, what we really needed Twitter to do was to make some NFT artworks – and not even make them tradeable for whoever gets them...

Twitter launched the thing we've all been waiting for... some NFTs???
Big Ideas

Pentagon report says UFOs can’t be explained – that really is a big deal

The big report has arrived, and with no clear explanations we don't have to say 'aliens' but we do have to take UFOs seriously.

Pentagon report says UFOs can’t be explained – that really is a big deal
Technology

Duolingo, the app that guilts you into studying languages, is about to IPO

The owl that keeps trying to remind you to work hard to achieve your goals is about to get an IPO cash injection.

Duolingo, the app that guilts you into studying languages, is about to IPO
Computers

HyperX Alloy Origins 60 keyboard review: tenkeyless gorgeousness

The HyperX Origins 60 keyboard brings a convenient small form factor in a beautiful package with surprisingly little compromise.

HyperX Alloy Origins 60 keyboard review: tenkeyless gorgeousness
Media

Instagram is ready to make your timeline an even messier hot mess

With a fresh test of Suggested Posts that will appear ahead of actual people you follow, welcome to more algorithm than ever before.

Instagram is ready to make your timeline an even messier hot mess
Technology

Is your phone really listening to you? It's so smart it doesn't have to.

Your phone is reading your mind, but it's because it's getting all the data it needs without access to your microphone.

Is your phone really listening to you? It's so smart it doesn't have to.