Having trouble making calls on your Telstra mobile or landline right now? Has your internet just died? A fire at a Telstra exchange in northern Sydney could be responsible.

Good news: Unlike the first movie, Marvel and Hasbro are not missing on having a dancing baby Groot toy out and on shelves to coincide with the launch of the next Guardians of the Galaxy. Bad news: Said toy looks like it literally just caught up with all current events news from, say, the past three months.

At a tech conference last September, former NYPD commissioner Bill Simmons said that outfitting the department's entire patrol unit (roughly 24,000 officers) with body cameras would be almost impossibly expensive, costing up to "hundreds of millions of dollars". But on Tuesday, the City of New York announced just that: Every NYPD officer will have body cameras by the end of 2019. So what changed?

If you have hundreds of thousands of dollars and are extremely creepy, you can now buy a one-of-a-kind piece of history: Adolf Hitler's personal telephone.

Video: To some in the US, February 2 is a time to trust the wisdom of a shadow-spotting rodent who makes vague predictions about the severity of winter. To others, it's an annual excuse to watch Bill Murray's Groundhog Day, again. But if you're short on time this year, Neil Fennell has made a shorter half-hour version of the film where each repeating day plays out at the same time.

With actual news headlines looking more and more dystopian, there's no better time to take a literary journey to an imaginary galaxy, parallel universe or fantastic realm. February may be the shortest month, but it's stuffed with books that are perfect for the job.

Video: Take a deep breath before you watch this collection of every Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography. There are so many wonderful shots and beautiful movies from 1927 to today that you might get lost in them and forget how to live.

Leland Melvin is a star in every sense of the word. The retired astronaut, NFL draftee and literal dog whisperer has a resume most of us could only dream of. Now, he can add "bringer of internet joy in these dark and troubled times" to that very long list of accolades.

Video: Grimy street fights, sweet-arse rides, frickin' heads being ripped off fools and a bunch of crap that looks like it won't bother with making sense. This is the stuff, and it's called Chuck Hank and The San Diego Twins. Here's the first trailer. So buckle up.