Electronic Sports is set to be on trial at the Commonwealth Games 2022 with the online event to be held at the International Convention Centre in Glasgow. The pilot Esports games will see the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and the Global Esports Federation (GEF) trial various areas of the event including analysing the success of…
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has advised that people will no longer be identified as ‘fully vaccinated’ but now ‘up-to-date’ once they receive a booster shot. The Department of Health has stated that individuals over the age of 16 must have a booster shot within six months of their second vaccination in…
Luxury auction house Sotheby’s is selling a single lot of 104 CryptoPunks which have been estimated to sell from $27-41 million AUD at the end of the month. The collections of NFTs were originally created in 2017 by Larva Labs and offer a unique opportunity for buyers as they were acquired together with a single…
Anna Leporskaya’s ‘Three Figures’ has been vandalised by a “bored” security guard at the Yeltsin Centre who decided to draw eyes on the faceless figures worth $1.4 million. The painting was created in the 1930s and was on loan to the art gallery where a 60-year-old security guard who worked for a private company decided…
The main suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks trial has claimed that while he was a part of the terrorist attack and a member of ISIS he did not kill anyone. Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving member of a group of six ISIS members that raided the Bataclan hall in which 90 people were…
Swedish car maker Volvo has announced an investment of $1.5 billion AUD for its Torslanda manufacturing plant in order to help produce fully electric cars. Volvo has previously stated that they would be a fully electric car company by the year 2030 with the company also investing $4.5 billion AUD into a new plant with…
Israeli scientists have found that routine prenatal ultrasounds in the second trimester can indicate whether a foetus is likely to develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the future. Researchers from the Azrieli National Centre for Autism and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered that anomalies in the heart, kidneys, and head in 30…
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced that they are launching a new centre called the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from satellite pollution. Currently there are thousands of satellites in space with 2,000 belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX StarLink and according to the Daily Mail there are plans…
Researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a pacemaker that re-establishes a natural heart beat in patients with cardiovascular diseases. According to the study, current pacemakers pace a heart metronomically which is at a steady and constant pace. The new pacemaker will sync with the patients breathing pattern so that the…
A New York couple has been arrested over an alleged plot to launder $5 billion AUD worth of Bitcoin that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. 34-year-old Ilya Lichtenstein and 31-year-old Heather Morgan were arrested in Manhattan by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday with officials stating that the Bitcoin worth has…