A global romp that compliments the films, only let down by some janky moments and odd enemy AI. It’s a shootout of true Indiana Jones proportions. Playing as the intrepid archaeologist, I’m hiding out in Giza on a small wooden platform secured to the side of the Sphinx, surrounded by Nazis. The few that are… Read more »
Welcome to Startup 360, this week with guest hosts AJ Koch and Claire Bull who put the microscope on medtech. While the action this week was in Melbourne for Digital Health Fest, we went under the hood of the medtech rollercoaster with two guests right at the coal face. From a funding point of view, you… Read more »
Founding cohost Kayla Medica is stepping away from the show because of work commitments and Simon Thomsen is devastated. But edge-of-millennial Kayla’s not sure if she’s heard Mental As Anything’s song, If you leave me, can I come too? (to be fair it was a hit in 1981 and the clip is from the Spotify… Read more »
We all have our morning rituals. Mine often involves waking up, taking a look at my phone and scanning the news. There’s only a few sites that I can be bothered to visit while my eyes adjust to the light. They are mostly Australian news websites, but one overseas site makes the cut. It’s not… Read more »
The Queensland government is holding a Parliamentary Inquiry into personal e-mobility devices (PMD), such as e-scooters and e-bikes, in a bid to improve safety and address community concerns about their use. The reviews comes after 8 users died last year in Queensland and the number of injuries PMD riders, passengers, and pedestrians jumped 112% between… Read more »
The first room you’ll see in Blue Prince. And you’ll see it a lot. I pull the lever and the piano music starts to swell. The stone shutter covering the door to the coveted Room 46 starts to open. Finally, I’ve cracked the game. I’ve spent about 50 hours plotting rooms and solving light maths… Read more »
In the pre-industrial era, people often lived and worked in the same building. This removed the need to travel to work. The separation of home and work occurred much later, during the Industrial Revolution. Factories and offices were grouped in designated areas and residential zoning was invented. Even then, people typically spent about 60 to… Read more »
Plagiarism accusations against Brooke Bellamy, first brought to light by Nagi Maehashi on her website RecipeTin Eats, continue to emerge. This week, it was reported that Bellamy has been dropped as an ambassador for the Academy for Enterprising Girls’ program for young girls in business. And a second cookbook author has come forward. High-profile US baker,… Read more »
Happy democracy sausage weekend! As Australians head to schools and halls on Saturday (although around 20% of the population has already voted) to cast their verdict on the last three years of the Albanese government, Startup 360 cohosts Simon Thomsen and Kayla Medica took a look at the policies and election promises for the tech… Read more »
This article is part of a quarterly series I’m launching The Greatest In Gaming, where I poll writers across Substack and the broader community on a unique aspect of gaming that’s special to them. You can find the last piece on gaming’s greatest love stories here. While you might not hear video game music on… Read more »
Around the world, more and more electric vehicles are hitting the road. Last year, more than 17 million battery-electric and hybrid vehicles were sold. Early forecasts suggest this year’s figure might reach 20 million. Nearly 20% of all cars sold today are electric. But as more motorists go electric, it creates a new challenge –… Read more »
Credit to the Chinese – they were the first to experiment with blending Australia’s most famous wine (and one of its most expensive), Penfolds Grange, decades ago, serving the red wine with cola. (There’s even a bar in Adelaide where you can try it – and we love this 3-star review of the 1965, selling… Read more »
Elon Musk says he will “significantly” reduce his work advising the United States government in May to allocate “far more” of his time to Tesla, following the company’s 71% drop in quarterly profits. “The large slug of work” establishing the so-called US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for US President Donald Trump had been mostly… Read more »
Greens Senator Nick McKim wants to end would-be Prime Minister Peter Dutton… in Fortnite. The veteran Tasmanian senator — whose career has spanned over two decades in federal politics — is perhaps the only politician who has taken to a gaming platform to pitch himself and his party to voters ahead of the May 3… Read more »
The brightly garbed Ronin isn’t happy. A few inches to the left with my stray kunai throw and he would have been dead. But I missed, and now he’s on the warpath. Along with his crew, he’s chasing me through a wheat field. I’m using the reeds for cover as I pick them off one… Read more »
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