Sunday, June 7, 2015

Gizmodo Australia

MOBILE

How To Watch Apple's WWDC 2015 Keynote Live Stream

Apple is keen to get the news out from its Worldwide Developer Conference tomorrow morning, choosing to live stream the event direct from the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Here’s how to watch it.
GADGET AND SMART HOME REVIEWS

Parrot Bebop Drone And Skycontroller Review: Looks Aren't Everything

You’ve graduated from your cheap beginner drone, and you want to try something new. Something that can shoot beautiful video from the sky — but doesn’t cost $1,000+ like a camera-equipped DJI Phantom. You spot the $US500 Parrot Bebop Drone, and pull the trigger. It’s kind of fun, you think, between strings of obscenities.
ENTERTAINMENT

Now Your Pizza Hut Box Is (Kinda, Sorta) A Movie Projector

Pizza and movies are like milk and cookies — they just go together and that’s that. Still, I wouldn’t ever want to combine milk and cookies into a single product (cookie flavored milk? milk flavored cookies?) and likewise, physically merging pizza and movies seems ill-advised.
SCIENCE

The Way We Categorise Hurricanes Sucks, But Here's How We Can Fix It

Everybody wants a quick shorthand for a storm’s damage potential. But the index we hear used most often isn’t the best option.
GEEK OUT

Towers Proposed For Paris Would Be The World's Tallest Wooden Structures

At first glance, the warm, luminous development proposed for a Paris site doesn’t look much different than any other mixed-use project rising in other cities. But this village of high-rises is unique in that it would be made completely from wood — even the 35-story tower at the center.
MOBILE

Apple WWDC 2015 Live Blog: Follow All The News As It Happens

Apple’s annual developer conference is taking over San Francisco, and Gizmodo Australia’s Luke Hopewell is on the ground to bring you all the action as it happens. Set your Apple Watches: it’s happening.
SCIENCE

What's The Difference Between 'Party Cloudy' And 'Mostly Sunny'?

If you ever thought it was difficult to tell the difference between “partly cloudy” and “mostly sunny,” you’re not alone. Established by the National Weather Service (NWS) according to a loose set of rules, the criteria used to describe different elements of your forecast can be pretty vague.
ENTERTAINMENT

Netflix Has Over 76,897 Ways To Describe Movies

So it’s a lazy day and you just wanna Netflix a movie. But what kind of movie? A “visually striking Latin American comedy?” Maybe a “critically-acclaimed emotional underdog movie?” Suddenly, you’re locked in option paralysis, and as The Atlantic figured out, you’ve got a ridiculous 76,897 unique genres to blame.
CAMERAS

A GoPro's Oddly Soothing Fall From Orbit

Blasting out of Earth’s gravity well and into orbit seems like it’d be anything but a calming experience. The first few minutes of the descent back home, however, are downright soothing.
SCIENCE

A Stealth Energy Startup Just Made A 10x Improvement To Its Fusion Tech

Tri Alpha Energy does not have a website. Its office in California is unmarked. But this stealth company apparently has hundreds of millions in cash. And now it has something to show for it, reportsScience: The company claims it’s gotten ten times better at containing high-energy particles necessary for fusion energy.
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