A six-year-old boy has died in a house fire early Monday morning after a fire tore through the family home in the Brisbane suburb of Clayfield. Emergency services arrived at the burning house just before 4am where three members of the family managed to escape the blazing property. The boy’s mother, father and sibling exited…
Cryptocurrencies are growing in popularity throughout the world and with this, experts say too is the Crypto ATM market. Vantage Market Research analysed the current crypto ATM market, valuing it at about USD $74.2 million in 2021. However, their findings predict the global market could be worth in excess of USD $1185.4 million by 2028…
A superyacht owned by a Russian billionaire arrived in Fiji on Thursday with authorities quick to question how the vessel got there despite the owner being hit with several sanctions. Police questioned the Amadea’s captain on how the boat was able to get to Fiji’s Lautoka port without customs clearance. Authorities believe the yacht is…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter however his offer hasn’t been met with open arms by the people at the social media platform. The billionaire has offered up an additional AUD $58 billion to purchase Twitter after recently spending just over $3 billion to amass 9.2 per cent of shares and become…
A partnership between Axiom Space and Space X has seen the first US private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) a success. Axiom Space utilised the Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch three men and an accompanying astronaut to the ISS with each man paying over AUD $70 million for the record-breaking experience.…
In a world where companies are looking for environmentally friendly alternatives, Airbus has taken an unlikely approach to powering one of their old A380s. At the end of March, Airbus successfully powered two trial flights using cooking oil. Both flights were test-run in France with the first one lasting three hours and fuelled by a…
Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks have been returned to Cambridge University after they were stolen in 2000. These journals played an important role in the English naturalist discovering the theory of evolution according to Cambridge University Librarian Dr Jessica Gardner who detailed how staff came across the historical items. “We don’t know a lot, but…
Engineers at Stanford University have taken solar panels to the next level by creating a solar cell that can still produce electricity despite operating during the night. These new panels work on a thermoelectric generator which coverts temperature differences into electrical energy. Protocol simplified the meaning by saying that the generators capture energy that radiates…
Virgil Griffith was sentenced to more than five years in prison and fined USD $100,000 for advising more than 100 people in North Korea on using cryptocurrencies to evade US sanctions. The former Ethereum developer was arrested in November 2019 for giving a presentation at a crypto conference in Pyongyang earlier in April that same…
A bilateral funding agreement has been reached between the Commonwealth and Victorian government, with $247.9 million to be invested for the improvement of mental health and suicide prevention support and services in Victoria over the next five years. A particular focus is on additional services for the “missing middle”, people too unwell for the general…