Verry Elleegant clinched the win in yesterday’s Melbourne Cup, beating out favourite Incentivise. The win marks the mare’s greatest victory in her career. Incentivise was the favourite to clinch the win in the game’s lead-up, coming off a 9-win streak and the shortest-priced favourite since Phar Lap back in 1930. Incentivise was beaten out by…
All eyes are on the crypto market today as Commonwealth Bank (CBA) becomes the first bank in Australia to offer cryptocurrency services. Meanwhile, the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency Ethereum is reaching an all-time high. CBA will partner with New York-based crypto exchange Gemini Trust LLC to offer trading services through its banking app. The bank, which…
Oxford Languages recently released their annual report announcing that ‘vax’ is their Word of the Year for 2021. According to Oxford, the word was used 72 times more frequently in September this year than at the same time in 2020. Oxford releases their Word of the Year in the last couple months of each year…
Elon Musk has made headlines after telling the United Nations he would sell Tesla stock “right now” if they can prove $6 billion will solve world hunger. Musk targeted the UN World Food Program (WFP) after Executive Director David Beasley called on billionaires such as Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to “step up now,…
The cryptocurrency developed in the wake of Netflix’s Squid Game mania has plummeted massively in value after surging as high as 75,000 percent only days ago. SQUID is a token inspired by the hit Netflix survival drama show Squid Game. The play-to-earn coin launched last week with major success, skyrocketing in value as countless buyers…
The G20 summit was held over this past weekend in Rome, Italy. The two-day summit saw the leaders of the world’s largest economies meet to discuss climate targets ahead of the COP26 conference in Scotland. For the first time in two years, the “Group of 20” world leaders tackled issues ranging from global economic growth…
Relations between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and French President Emmanuel Macron have ostensibly not yet recovered from tensions following a broken deal in September. The relationship between the two nations suffered a setback when the Prime Minister backed out of their established submarine deal on short notice. Australia bailed on a $37 billion submarine contract…
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company’s name has been changed to ‘Meta’. The change was announced at the company’s virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR respectively) conference Facebook Connect. While the social media site will maintain its name, Meta will become the catch-all moniker for the overarching corporation. Zuckerberg hopes…
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has stretched their investigation into former premier Gladys Berejiklian and former MP Daryl Maguire into a third week. A series of tapped phone calls between the two played during last week’s hearings shed light on how a series of grants were pushed through despite bureaucratic dissent. In a 2018…
Surgeons in New York City recently successfully completed a kidney transplant between a pig and a human, they announced at a news conference. The surgery, completed at NYU Langone Health, is a major step forward in finding an alternative, non-human organ supply for those in need. The procedure is known as xenotransplantation. On 25 September…