Former NSW second-in-command John Barilaro has been locked in a court battle with comedian Jordan Shanks and tech giant Google over defamatory YouTube videos. Source: Wikimedia Commons Former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has received $715,000 in landmark defamation damages against tech giant Google over two YouTube videos that the company refused to take down.…
Türkiye is pronounced as Tur-key-YAY according to the UN. Source: Freepik The Republic of Turkey sent an official letter to the United Nations, requesting that they now be referred to as Türkiye moving forward. It comes as Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan started the process back in December as a way to “increase the brand…
Source: Visit Iceland There’s no horsing around when it comes to work but Visit Iceland has launched a campaign that gets a bunch of local horses to type out a response to those pesky work emails. Going on a holiday, you expect to be left alone and given plenty of time to enjoy yourself but…
Missguided will continue to deliver on remaining orders. Source: Missguided, Facebook. The company has appointed several administrators after it failed to secure a rescue buyer, with suppliers calling for the business to pay up. It’s been reported that the fashion corporation owes suppliers millions of dollars with Teneo Financial Advisory brought in to sell the…
The “sub-orbital” accelerator in New Mexico stands at 50.4 metres tall. Source: Spinlaunch. The revolutionary approach is called SpinLaunch and is hailed as “the world’s first kinetic space launch system”. Known as the suborbital accelerator, the mechanism stands taller than the statue of liberty at 50.4 metres to be the “largest span vacuum chamber ever…
The motion was voted for in favour by the South Australian parliament. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The state parliament has voted in favour of a motion that has now declared SA in a state of climate emergency with calls for action to be taken. The motion comes after a community initiative, led by climate change activists…
Remains of the two people who’s DNA was analysed. Source: Pompeii. The eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD buried the town of Pompeii and with that created an ancient time capsule but this latest feat has discovered new details on the people of the ill-fated metropolis. Over 1900 years ago the city was destroyed…
Woolworths are keeping the environment in mind, with Western Australia the first to follow the eco-future by removing all plastic bags from their stores. Source: Woolworths Supermarket retailing giant Woolworths has announced a permanent removal of their 15-cent plastic shopping bags, gradually phasing them out over the next year. Doing so will reportedly remove over…
Screenshots from a 3D animation of the Cotoca Site. Source: H.Prumers/DAI. Utilizing mapping technology, archaeologists were able to discover a lost city that’s been hidden under the Amazon for centuries. Researchers believe the two sites called Cotoca and Landivar, measuring in at 147 and 315 ha, belong to the Casarabe culture which existed around 500…
California’s Berkeley High School had a 16-year-old student arrested after it was discovered the boy intended to recruit a team to shoot up the school. Source: Berkeley High School Law enforcement arrested a 16-year-old boy in Berkeley, California on Monday after learning he was recruiting a “team” of students to shoot up a high school.…