Streaming giant Netflix will not be participating in this years Cannes Film Festival according to Variety due to regulations surrounding the screening of films. A close source of Netflix revealed to Variety that due to specific rules set by the Cannes Film Festival that they will not be participating this year. Regulations specify that in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gained parliamentary approval to move Russian troops into rebel-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Putin has backed the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk and has said that the presence of Russian military in the breakaway provinces are for “peacekeeping functions”. In a speech, Putin said that he…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a triple galaxy merger with the phenomenon taking place in the constellation of Cancer some 682 million light years away. According to the NASA press release the merger has now been called IC 2431 with the image displaying a rare astronomical sight of galaxies in the process of merging…
Meta has announced that Facebook Reels will now be available in over 150 countries worldwide for IOS and Android after launching in the US late last year. Facebook Reels follows similar short video features on other apps such as Instagram and Tik Tok. These short videos can be up to 60 seconds long while also…
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at a faster rate than originally thought with majority of the melting below the surface. The research stated that the melting is caused by meltwater that falls from the surface and into the cracks of the ice sheet, which then…
Australian scientists have discovered the fossil of a 93-million-year-old crocodile in Central Queensland that has the remains of a baby dinosaur in its stomach. Originally discovered in 2010 by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum along with the University of New England (UNE), the remains have only recently been scanned with advanced nuclear and synchrotron…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps harassing him amid ongoing investigations after being charged with false and misleading statements in 2018. The controversy started in 2018 when Musk tweeted that he had funding secured to allow Tesla to go private at $420 a share according to Yahoo…
Swiss scientists have created a spinal cord implant that has allowed three fully paralysed men to be able to walk again with the technology hailed as revolutionary. The spinal cord implant works by stimulating muscles to make movements through a specially designed walking frame that is controlled by the patient. The system was developed by…
New Zealand Fern’s defender Meikayla Moore scored three own goals leading the Kiwi women’s football team to lose 5-0 against the US in the SheBelieves Cup in California. In total Moore scored three own goals with two in the first six minutes and a third goal in the 35th minute. All goals were scored off…
Batteries | Photo Credit: John Cameron on Unsplash With potentially 150 million loose or removable batteries being stored in homes across Australia, B-cycle, with backing from Federal, State and Territory Governments, has been launched as a battery recycling scheme with the aim of curbing the number of used batteries being sent to landfill as waste.…