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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Gizmodo Australia


The New X-Files Is Broadcasting Now, But We Won't See It In Australia For A Week 

The X-Files is back. (Again.) It’s being broadcast right now on FOX in the US, but there’s no way for you to (legally) watch it now, or even in the next couple of hours, whether that’s on the internet or on a TV. In Australia, you’ll have to wait until Sunday night to watch the debut episode of a TV series we’ve already been waiting nearly fourteen years to see.

Look How Much Snow Fell On The US Northeast This Weekend 

Image Cache: The US East Coast just got walloped by a record-breaking winter storm. But sometimes, words simply can’t do justice to the magnitude of a meteorological event. You need images taken from 400km up.

This Robot Can Solve A Rubik's Cube In One Second 

Given a long plane ride and enough booze, I can just about solve a Rubik’s cube. The most talented humans can manage it in about five seconds; for a homemade robot, it takes 1.019 seconds.

Say Hello To Sony Interactive Entertainment 

Today, Sony announced that it is bringing together Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment in a new entity. It’s called Sony Interactive Entertainment.

This Site Lets You Search The Worldwide Netflix Library 

Netflix might have declared its plan to crack down on unblockers and VPNs to avoid users country-hopping, but there’s still ways to view the different Netflix libraries from other regions. If you’re after one movie in particular, this global Netflix search engine will tell you where to take up virtual residence.

7 Autonomous Vehicle Ideas That Need To Happen Now 

President Obama reently announced plans to earmark a whopping $US4 billion for autonomous vehicle research. These funds will be dispersed to pilot programs all over the US during the next decade — but where and how the money is spent will determine just how big a step forward Obama’s plan really is.

How We Could Build A City On Mars 

If we want to someday live on Mars, spaceships won’t be enough. We would need a Martian city — and this is how we might build one.

The Future Is Just Two Years Away Forever Until You're Dead 

Did you see the Hyperloop news out of Davos? You could be zipping around in a real-life Hyperloop by 2018! It’s 2016 now, so that makes it… just two years away! Where have we heard that before?

The Largest Solar System Ever Has Been Discovered 

Astronomers studying a lonely planet drifting through space have found its mum; a star a trillion kilometres away. The planet, known as 2MASS J2126−8140, has an orbit around its host star that takes nearly a million Earth years and is more than 140 times wider than Pluto’s. This makes it easily the largest solar system ever found.

MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC Mini-ITX Skylake Motherboard: Australian Review 

If you’ve held off on building a new PC for a couple of years, then the computing world has well and truly passed you by. Things have changed. No longer is gaming the exclusive domain of big, Extended ATX PC cases with equally massive motherboards and two or three graphics cards in SLI. In 2016, your gaming PC genuinely can be the same one that sits in the corner of your living room. I’ve been looking for a good, small motherboard for a top of the line Core i7 Skylake CPU for a little while, and I think I’ve decided on MSI’s tiny Z170I Gaming Pro AC.

Confessions Of JB Hi-Fi Reviewers 

The humble JB Hi-Fi review. You’ve seen them in-stores, you’ve seen them go viral on social media. Sometimes they’re straight down the line, others are satirical or flat out hilarious. Every once in a while they absolutely hit the nail on the head. 
We spoke to numerous JB Hi-Fi ‘reviewers’. The men and women making you laugh to figure out the rules, regulations and weird little secrets behind the infamous JB Hi-Fi review.
These are the confessions of JB Hi-Fi reviewers.
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