Obviously Clive Palmer, the eccentric Australian billionaire, hasn't learnt anything from the film; he is determined to create a cloned dinosaur for an actual, in-the-flesh, Jurassic Park. That's not going to end well. Read More >>

The new version of Android, Jelly Bean, was to be officially rolled by a carrier for the first time this week in Australia. Sadly, Vodafone couldn't see it through, because the new OS failed to meet regulations related to emergency calls. Read More >>

The citizens of the desert town of Broken Hill were surprised when they woke up to this surreal scene: giant Lego trees and flowers—66 times bigger than the actual pieces—had grown everywhere overnight. Read More >>

Now you can play with mountains of Lego, all day while at work, and you don't even have to tidy up afterwards. Lego have partnered up with Google Chrome to create a Lego sandbox virtual world in a web browser, where you can build to your heart's content. Read More >>

Australia is well known for its sharks; if you're surfing off the coast there's always a chance you'll bump into one of the depth's scariest predators. But about 100 of them going gangbusters devouring a whale up on the beach -- you don't see that everyday. Read More >>

Our current level of technological prowess is severely hindering efforts to explore the solar system. Nine months to get to Mars—who's got that kind of time? If a new breed of ion thruster currently under development at the Australian National University is successful, we'll get to the Red Planet in a third of the time. Read More >>

The Aussie competition watchdog is seeking to impose a fine of $2.25m on Apple over its awkward "4G" claims, which saw Apple fans buying the "4G" tablet despite the fact it couldn't connect to the Australian data network. Read More >>

Some people who use Facebook are dumb. Like a 17-year-old Australian girl who posted a picture of a massive pile of cash to her Facebook account and was then shocked when, just hours later, her house was broken into and the money demanded from her. Read More >>

RIM’s obviously getting pretty desperate for attention; it’s 'fessed up to masterminding that bizzare anti-Apple “Wake up!” stunt confirming the rumours we heard about yesterday. Apparently its all part of a viral marketing campaign to try and put BlackBerry OS 10 on the map. Read More >>

That very odd "Wake up!" marketing stunt that was oh so conveniently filmed was believed to be paid for by Samsung, which is going all-out to label iPhone users as sheep in the run up to its big Galaxy S III announcement. However, the Apple user wake up call may have been RIM's idea of a joke instead. Read More >>

This has to be one of the weirdest of those annoying personal injury claims I’ve ever heard. Having been hit on the head by a light fitting that came away from the wall while mid-session with a male friend in a motel room, an Australian woman has managed to win compensation from her employer. Apparently, because she was away from home for work she can claim, even though the act wasn’t exactly work related. Read More >>

The saga of what is and what isn’t 4G is still raging, and Apple’s doing its best to claim that 3G is actually 4G, but I’m just not buying it. No, I don’t care how fast your 3G network is, it’s just not 4G. And calling your iPad 4G when it can’t connect to a 4G network is just plain wrong. Read More >>

A team of three Melbourne-based artists win the award for Most Materialistic Consumers of Consumer Goods Ever, after working with a French fragrance lab to develop––I kid you not––Eau de MacBook Pro. Read More >>

Welp, we're about done with the ol' plasma set. Figure it's time to take 'er off to the dump. Or maybe we could sell it? Naw, let's destroy it with arcing electricity bolts for fifteen minutes straight. Read More >>

Ah, crisps. Who doesn't love them? If only — and I'm being nitpicky here — if only they could, I don't know, turn your tongue some ungodly colour for no reason. Right? Oh, wait, PepsiCo's Twisties to the rescue! Read More >>