Google's latest Chromecast dongle comes in at twice the cost of its predecessor. But for that price, it supports 4K video, and high dynamic range video. Using your phone as a remote control, it can wirelessly stream the best quality video possible from Netflix, YouTube, Stan and a host of other Google Cast apps. Is its $99 price worthwhile over the existing $59 Chromecast, though?
Video: Even if there is too much CGI in movies these days (and there is), let's be thankful that the CGI we're bombarded with looks good. Or, at least, it looks so much better than the utter crap computers spat out back in the '90s. God, that era of CGI was awful. Diane Bullock edited together this clip of CGI footage to show how bleak things were back then. Do you remember how bad the aeroplane crash scene from Air Force One was? Or how silly Kurt Russell looked in the surfing scene in Escape From LA? It was hilarious.
A fatal accident three months ago has left a water park in Kansas City with no choice but to dismantle its star attraction. The 17-storey tall Verrückt water slide has been inactive since the accident in August. "Verrückt will be decommissioned — closed permanently and the slide removed from the tower," a statement to the Kansas City Star from the park read.
Video: I mean, that is how you celebrate birthdays, right?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is fine. It's a very pretty movie with a few really good performances (specifically Dan Fogler and Colin Farrell). Unfortunately, the plot requires almost everyone involved to be unforgivably stupid or else the whole story would fall apart. And the stupidest person by far is the hero, Newt Scamander.
Video: That’s it. I’m leaving the country. Planet Earth II isn't available in either the US or Australia yet, I can't in my right mind live here knowing that there are other people in this world enjoying the soul lifting freedom that comes with seeing all this beyond gorgeous footage of our world and every creature in it. Just watch this clip from the latest episode, "Jungle", showing glow in the dark fungi sprouting up in a time lapse. It's unreal.
US regulators want to limit what you can do with your smartphone while you're behind the wheel. Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published its first safety guidelines regarding driver distraction, targeting portable and aftermarket devices (AKA smartphones) or other gear that you connect to your car.
The Madison Square Garden Company just disclosed that someone had access to its payment processing system for almost a year. That means all data included on the magnetic stripe of thousands of credit cards — like credit card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates and internal verification codes — could have been stolen.
Aspartame — the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke — is probably not good for you. If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion. A new study published by a team of investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism found a possible reason aspartame doesn't help you lose weight — oh sorry, haven't you heard? Like most things in society, diet soft drink is probably a giant scam.
NBC shared its first promo for its Wizard of Oz-inspired fantasy series Emerald City, and it has all of the elements you'd expect (a tornado, witches) with some major updates added in. The Dorothy character is an adult, crashes into Oz via cop car and appears to spark up a romance with... uh, is that the Scarecrow?
We strive to make robots in our own likeness because, as far as we can tell, humans are best adapted to deal with our world. And thanks to researchers at MIT, who've found a way to use cheap, nylon plastic as an artificial muscle, we're now one step closer to creating artificial humans — and opulent fantasy theme parks.
The Flash has a big problem this season — and it's not the evil speedster Savitar, or the machinations of Doctor Alchemy. It's Barry Allen himself. In the latest episode, the show finally started addressing it, but too much damage may have already been done.
Apple has embraced the mono-port. With the new MacBook Pro, the Cupertino company has scrapped the myriad of ports on the previous generation of Pros and fully embraced USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 (the two use the same port type). Combined, USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 are an extraordinary interface that's super fast.
As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, species can adapt to changing environmental conditions through the trial-and-error process of natural selection. A discouraging new study shows that climate change is happening too fast for evolution to keep up, placing countless plant and animal species at risk.
November 25 is the biggest shopping day on the US calendar. For 24 hours, American shoppers are treated to an annual bargains extravaganza known as Black Friday to ring out Thanksgiving. Retailers routinely slash their prices to kick start the Christmas shopping season resulting in hundreds of incredible deals.
The good news is that many of these bargains are available in Australia, alongside noteworthy deals from local retailers looking to capitalise on the Black Friday hype. To save you the trouble of fruitlessly hunting through US sites that may or may not ship to Australia, we've assembled the very best deals you can get Down Under - complete with links.
Ever wonder if your dog recalls those times you were were a really shitty owner? The latest science shows they most certainly do.
If we ever get proof of past life on Mars, it will come in the form of biosignatures, fingerprints that could only have been left by living organisms. We're a long way from finding that smoking gun evidence, but an analysis of silica minerals discovered by NASA's Spirit rover pushes us one step closer. Because of their similarity to silica deposits shaped by microbial life on Earth, these intriguing Martian minerals are now being called a "potential biosignature".
If you don't already have a PS4, and you don't want to shell out $559 for a PS4 Pro, then you may as well get yourself a PS4 Slim. The redesigned PlayStation 4 is usually $439 for a 500GB variant, but this weekend you'll find it for a fair bit less.
