Australia seals West Indies series with dominant second ODI win
Australia has claimed an unbeatable 2-0 lead in their ODI series against the West Indies with a 91-run victory in the second match at Warner Park in St Kitts.
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The Cable Emperor Has No Clothes: Why Audiophiles Keep Buying Expensive Nothing
Blind testing consistently shows listeners cannot distinguish between budget cables and pricey alternatives. Yet audiophiles continue spending thousands, driven by psychology rather than physics.
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When titans align: The text trail behind Musk and Zuckerberg's 2025 détente
Newly unsealed court filings show Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk coordinating on government efficiency efforts in February 2025, marking a striking reversal of their long-standing feud.
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AI's Dirty Secret: Experts Don't Always Work Best
Asking AI to act like an expert software developer might seem like a smart move, but new research from USC shows it backfires. The study found that expert personas consistently damaged code quality and accuracy.
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Microsoft finally slams the kernel door on ancient Windows driver vulnerability
Microsoft is removing trust for ageing kernel drivers signed through a deprecated early-2000s program, forcing a reckoning for vendors with legacy hardware and raising hard questions about managing technical debt.
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When a Digital Watch Outthought the Omega Speedmaster
Seiko has resurrected the Rotocall, the octagonal-bezeled digital watch that astronauts chose over NASA's official kit. Its return reveals something unexpected: sometimes the smartest design is the one nobody remembers.
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The Show Coasts: Sony's Baseball Sim Excels Where It Matters, Stumbles Everywhere Else
MLB The Show 26 delivers the sport's most authentic digital experience, but critics increasingly question whether the annual refresh formula is sustainable when everything beyond the gameplay feels recycled.
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HBO's £4 Billion Gamble: What Potter's Record Budget Says About Streaming's New Reality
HBO has admitted the Harry Potter series represents a financial commitment unlike anything it normally makes. What that confession reveals about streaming's present and future.
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Huawei's AI Chip Challenge: Performance Claims Meet Market Reality
Huawei claims its new Atlas 350 AI accelerator delivers nearly 3 times the performance of Nvidia's H20. But industry scepticism and unverified benchmarks raise questions about real-world capability.
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Screamer's First Patch Takes the Teeth Out of Its Rage-Quitting Moments
Screamer's debut update nerfs the game's punishing AI in Tournament mode, addressing the biggest complaint from reviewers who loved the anime racer's style but struggled with unfair difficulty spikes.
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After Prime Video's Cancellation, Wheel of Time Seeks New Life Through Animation
Less than a year after Amazon cancelled its costly live-action adaptation, The Wheel of Time is back with plans for an animated series, films, and video games in a bold shift toward multi-platform storytelling.
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Lost photographs reveal Armstrong's composure in the moment that made him the Moon walker
Sixty years after the Gemini 8 emergency nearly cost Neil Armstrong his life, recovered photographs show the astronaut's composed demeanour upon landing. His steady response to the crisis played a pivotal role in NASA's decision to make him commander of Apollo 11.
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Beyond the Pokies: How RSLs Are Chasing New Customers with Live Music and Family Events
RSL clubs across Victoria are moving away from their traditional reliance on poker machine revenue, launching new community initiatives including live music, beer gardens, and family entertainment to attract younger patrons and rebuild their reputation.
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Nvidia's DLSS 5 Shows Us What AI Will Do to Games
Nvidia's new DLSS 5 upscaling technology sparked widespread revulsion when revealed at GTC 2026. Yet the backlash reveals something deeper than graphics preferences: a fundamental anxiety about art, control, and what we lose when machines decide how games should look.
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The Collectors Who Became Crusaders for Australian Art
Actor Steve Martin and collector John Wilkerson have amassed major collections of Indigenous Australian art and spent years sharing their passion with the world.
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Three Tech Stories Reveal the Same Problem: Hype Meets Reality
This week's major tech announcements from Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta reveal a pattern: ambitious promises crash against the messy facts of business, regulation, and consumer behaviour.
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Tesla's $25 billion bet on chip independence raises hard questions about execution
Tesla plans to build its own semiconductor fabrication plant, a $25 billion wager that signals real frustration with global supply chains, but decades of industry expertise cannot be purchased at any price.
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TikTok Stars Meet Television: Will They Actually Sit Still That Long?
Tubi and TikTok are partnering to turn TikTok personalities into television stars. The question is whether audiences addicted to 60-second videos will actually watch episode-length content from creators who built their fame in the opposite format.
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UK's AI chatbot proves smarter but hits a fundamental tech wall
The UK government's AI chatbot has doubled its accuracy in recent trials but now faces a harder challenge: making it fast enough for users who don't want to wait 11 seconds for answers.
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Michaela Coel Takes on Bloodsport: A Curious Match at A24
A24 has tasked Michaela Coel with reinventing Bloodsport, the campy 1988 martial arts classic. It's a bold pivot for the acclaimed writer-director.
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