If you have a powerful gaming PC hidden away in one corner of your house, but want to knock out a quick game of Crysis or Dark Souls II on your laptop or home-theatre PC, you’re officially in luck. Valve has made its In-Home Streaming service available to any Steam customer. More » ...
In a rare gesture of transparency, the US Department of Homeland Security just announced that hackers recently targeted and compromised a public utility’s control system. It didn’t say exactly where, but it happened inside United States borders. And it doesn’t sound like it was even that hard. More » ...
Fantastic work by Brazilian animators Fernando Mendonça and Anderson Mahanski, recreating the Game of Thrones universe as if it were designed by Disney artists. Their interpretation is spot on. More » ...
We take GPS so much for granted on land that it’s easy to forget where GPS doesn’t work — like deep underwater, where only strange sea creatures and submarines roam. Enter the bizarre new world of quantum positioning, where supercooled atoms could be the future of navigation. More » ...
There are a few things in life you can eternally rely on: 1) your phone is never where you left it, 2) your train will be the only one crippled by “adverse weather” and 3) Apple will launch a new iPhone every year until humans master the art of telepathy. A few months after the launch of the iPhone 5S, it’s time now to start rummaging down the back of the rumour sofa to fish out all there is to know...
Being diagnosed with cancer is often compared to being kicked in the gut — by a Clydesdale. But if caught soon enough, many of the disease’s 200 iterations offer more than even survival rates, five years down the line. It’s by no means a clean bill of health, mind you, but there several forms of cancer that modern science has beaten back. More » ...
Toshiba isn’t the first company I usually think of when it comes to performance laptops. The Satellite series has consistently been a strong performer in terms of value for money, but you haven’t always been able to rely on them for outright computing grunt. But times are changing. The new Satellite P50t is a slickly designed, but super-powerful, 15-inch business and home notebook. More » ...
When Paul Smith got his hands on the design icon that is the Anglepoise Type75 desk lamp, the result was always going to be striking — and spattered with clashing colours, it certainly is. The special edition of the lamp uses Smith’s trademark discordant colour choices to pick out each element of the lamp’s mechanical workings in a different hue. More » ...
The Australian Federal Police is out to teach alleged hackers a lesson, and after a lengthy investigation, it has arrested what it claims are two members of Anonymous. More » ...
I thought I’d never say this about a Microsoft tablet, but after seeing the new Surface Pro 3 that was announced by Microsoft yesterday I’m just going to say it…”I want one!” I fly every week for work and one thing that you really notice after being on the road this much is the weight […] Related Posts: Dell Launches the Dell XPS 15z Laptop In Australia –…...
Who said there’s no market for getting people drunk while they play video games? Despite the fact that Mana Bar Melbourne has recently folded due to poor patronage , Australia is getting three new gaming bars in the next few months alone. More » ...
For decades, doctors have been unable to answer the most basic question about Kawasaki disease: what causes it — a virus, a chemical, a fungus? Whatever it is, it provokes mysterious swelling and rashes in infants. Doctors now think they have finally figured out what causes Kawasaki — thanks to an analysis of the wind. More » ...
In 1964, a pair of Bell Labs researchers pointed the world’s largest radio telescope to the skies and unwittingly stumbled upon one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century: cosmic background radiation. We talked with the legendary physicist behind that breakthrough to find out more — and with the president of Bell Labs to see what the future holds for one of our finest research institutions....
Do you have dodgy Wi-Fi in your house? If you’re living in a large apartment or multi-level house, chances are that you could do with a Wi-Fi range extender or at least some smarter router placement. Telstra can help you out with that — alongside the announcement of its fledgling nationwide Wi-Fi network, it has a new app that maps your house’s Wi-Fi network range. More » ...
This is Lyuba, the world’s most complete mammoth, in her most tender and comfortable resting place since she was separated from her mother some 42,000 years ago.* More » ...
The Oculus Rift is so close to making our Star Trek holodeck dreams a reality. The only catch is that since you’re tethered with cables, you’re not really free to physically walk around while wearing it. So far the solutions to this problem have been less than impressive, but the Infinadeck — a treadmill that lets you walk in any direction — might just be the perfect solution. More » ...
On Monday, we learnt that the NSA is recording every single phone call in the Bahamas and storing the data for a month. This news arrives just six weeks after we learned that the NSA was recording every single phone call, text and email in Iraq . In fact, the spy agency is engaged in similar efforts in five different countries around the world. So how many taxpayer dollars does that come out to? More »...
When you think of everything you really need for a weekend of camping, what comes to mind? Food? A change of clothing? A guitar? Wrong, wrong, wrong. All you really need is a comfy place to nap away the hours. So Nick Scroggs and Fred Bane created the HackedPack, a backpack featuring the most important camping accessory already built-in: a hammock. More » ...
In some ways, it’s an ominous pitch. By measuring the “magnetic fingerprint” of any building in the world, the Finnish company IndoorAtlas can conjure up a startlingly precise indoor map of any building. It’s technology that sci-fi has dreamt of for decades. But instead of surveillance, it’s being used for shopping. More » ...
Jonathan Lowe — a product design student from Staffordshire University in the UK — came up with Xitus, a clever gadget that helps you escape from a building on fire when the only way out is trough the window. Place it on the edge of the window, climb over and a controlled descent device will take you to the ground gently. More » ...