The astronauts, who may depart as soon as February 2026, will not land on the Moon though. Their flight sounds like it will be similar to Apollo 8 in 1968, which yielded this incredible photo, taken by William Anders. The Artemis program will potentially pave the way for a longer term human presence on the […]

Taras Buria, writing for Neowin: Windows 10 support is ending in only two weeks, and with a new month here, Statcounter has new data about the Windows market and how different versions perform. This month, the data is rather odd: Statcounter reports that Windows 10 dropped to a seven-year low, while Windows 7 is...

British actor Patricia Routledge died at the age of ninety-six last week. I came to know Routledge through her role as Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet, it would seem), in the BBC produced TV sitcom Keeping up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995. I think the show screened in Australia a little after that...

If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time so you can put something right, then One More Shot, trailer, the debut feature of Melbourne based Australian filmmaker Nicholas Clifford, staring Australian actor Emily Browning, might be for you. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and Minnie (Browning) discovers a bottle of...

de Kretser, who’s novel Theory & Practice (which I’m currently reading), and Morton’s book, Mean Streak, about the previous Australian government’s controversial Robobot debt recovery scheme, are respective winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories. Others recipients, who were announced last Monday, 29...

Windows 10 (W10) users, in Europe and the United States, have been offered a one-year reprieve by Microsoft, manufacturer of the ten-year old operating system (OS), before product support was slated to cease on 14 October 2025. Previously, anyone wishing to continue using W10 had been told they’d need to pay a...

The people at Kurzgesagt are pretty clued-up. They must learn a lot, about everything really, in their line of work. As a result of this ceaseless learning, they might have found a way, for whatever lifeforms are still present, to evade the eventual heat-death of the universe. Although still conjecture, this is how...

When I turned comments back on here a few months ago, after an absence of many years, I was amazed at how quickly spam comments began appearing. Good news travels fast it seems. A new outlet has appeared for us to post our drivel — quick — get over there. But because every comment made […]

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, writing for The Guardian: I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever. Regulation and global governance are technically feasible, but reliant on political willpower....

A binary stellar system consisting of a Wolf–Rayet (WR) star, and a larger main sequence star, known as V Sagittae, are predicted to erupt in a massive explosion, possibly before the end of the century*. Presently the WR body is furiously feeding on the substance of its nearby companion. The stars orbit each other...

On Friday 27 September 2013, I posted a link to a short film I saw that day. The story still holds up twelve years on. Directed by Rod Blackhurst, Time Alone is about a young woman, Ann, portrayed by Rose Hemingway, who spends a weekend camping alone in a wilderness area. The horror of what […]

David Uzondu, writing for Neowin: Microsoft is reportedly discussing with select US publishers a pilot program for its so-called Publisher Content Marketplace, a system that pays publishers for their content when it gets used by AI products, starting with its own Copilot assistant. It’s a step in the right...