A small hospital in the Sunshine Coast hinterland is leading a new era in rehabilitation in south-west Queensland by using a suite of gaming and virtual-reality machines to treat patients.Key points:Eden Private Hospital uses four high-tech robotic machines to...
Jon Peterson is the author of Playing at the World, widely seen as the definitive history of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as coauthor of the visual history Dungeons & Dragons: Art and Arcana and the D&D cookbook Heroes’...
The consensus is that 2020 has been “the worst.” But there is reason to look back at this year and find the unexpected silver linings of quarantine, particularly when it comes to how we connect with other people. None...
AFP via Getty Images It seemed little more than a dream back in the summer, but finally, the vaccines are here. And while we all wonder when our turn to be vaccinated will...
Though awards season is already upon us, it certainly doesn’t feel that way. Like so many other things in 2020, Hollywood is in the midst of a sea change. Even if you wanted to, it might be hard to...
In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes” was posting nonconsensual fake porn videos using an AI algorithm to swap celebrities’ faces...
For many, tomorrow's COVID Christmas will be a time of muddling through video calls and figuring out ways to see friends and family who are stuck elsewhere.Countries where many Australians have family are in lockdown, while several Australian states...
Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook, might finally be ready to produce its own line of cars. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Apple car, if there is one, could be on the road by 2024....
This spring, while the US government was spinning its wheels on an official covid-19 response, countries around the world were rolling out national contact tracing apps. Beginning with Singapore in mid-March, more than 40 countries have launched digital exposure...
There were more searches for terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” in 2020 than in years past. | John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Neither the media nor fact-checkers controlled the online conversation surrounding “misinformation” this...


















