The National Broadband Network promised that we'd have a searchable rollout map, a way we can check when we can connect, available by the end of 2016.
With a little over a week to spare, it's actually up and running - unless you're in a Hybrid Fibre Co-Axial area.
Only two more months remain until The Lego Batman Movie is in the US (add an extra 48 days to that for Aussie audiences), and if it's half as good as The Lego Movie, it will end up being one of the best Batman movies yet.
A Christmas Story? Christmas Vacation? Scrooged? All memorable holiday films, but none of them can hold a candle, or a Zippo lighter, to the greatest Christmas movie of all time: Die Hard. Which means that by default, this handmade ornament featuring John McClane crawling through a heating duct is also the best possible way to decorate your tree.
There's an infinite number of ways the internet has improved our lives, but at the top of the list is the fact we all have easy access to videos of things getting crushed by a hydraulic press. And what better way is there to celebrate the holidays than by crushing a mountain of glitter and a CO2 cartridge? Can you think of a faster way to deck the halls?
We have lots to say about the new movie Passengers, and with good reason. It's an incredibly weird movie, especially considering what you might expect from the trailers. But from a purely science fiction design standpoint, it's undeniably beautiful, and the director told us one of its little secrets.
Director Denis Villeneuve is one step closer to getting his dream. He's in early talks to direct Dune.
One of Soylent's biggest ingredient suppliers — TerraVia — has thrown down the gauntlet and cut ties with the meal replacement company, effective immediately. It's part of possibly the strangest PR feud of the year, and probably the first major controversy in history involving algae.
In the US, Uber has now rolled out several features it announced back in November. Instead of helping the app's reputation for creepery, however, Uber somehow managed to make it worse. Travis, you jokester!
Given how badly things are going here on planet Earth, it's encouraging to see entrepreneurs working tirelessly to get us off this rock. From reusable rockets to Martian manifestos to asteroid mining, 2016 was a near like no other in the commercial space race. Here are the highlights.
After successfully launching a GoPro through the air using a bow and arrow, YouTube's Sam and Niko have taken that experiment to new heights, and new speeds, by instead blasting the tiny action camera out of a compressed air cannon.
By some metrics, Mark Zuckerberg had an excellent year. Facebook, his supreme breadwinner, made enough money to keep a small country afloat. The platform's user base kept growing. It became a top destination for news, and its influence over every aspect of our lives further metastasized. He even gave the Pope a model drone!
Netflix's Travellers features a team of people who send their consciousness through time and into other people's bodies — and they're using that ability to prevent the dwindling down of humanity into nearly nothing.
Australia’s craft beer game may be pretty strong right now, but the rise of boutique spirits have taken barflies and bar managers alike by storm.
Virtual reality finally arrived. Self-driving cars started wandering streets and past red lights. SpaceX aborted a rocket launch four times within a week. Samsung started strong with the Galaxy S7 and finished with the Note7 nuking itself into orbit while you slept.
We had new graphics cards, and most of them were pretty damn good. Consoles broke the mould by releasing new hardware mid-cycle and becoming more like PCs than ever before. And, unsurprisingly, we found out once again that Einstein really knew his shit.
It's been a big year for tech. Let's break down this year's biggest moments.
Earlier this month, a new study came out suggesting that it's possible to predict whether a toddler will become a criminal. Based on neurological exams, scientists correlated the brain health of people at age three with whether they went on to commit any crimes as adults. And for those with poor brain health, 80 per cent of the time, it turned out that they did.
Life is weird. Between the mysteries that baffle scientists, strange disappearances and even stranger reappearances, there are some things that we just can't explain. It turns out a lot of those things happened in 2016, and no, we're not talking about Trump being elected president.
The company overseeing the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout has signed a number of deals for the implementation of fibre to around 525,000 premises in Sydney and Melbourne. Most of them will be served by fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC). Here are the details.
If you're erasing sensitive files from a computer, you probably want them gone forever and far beyond the reach of data recovery tools. Unfortunately, that's not what happens all of the time. Here are some simple steps you can take to make sure your files are deleted permanently.
