Refresh Good morning, Australia! If you’re a bargain hunter, you’re in luck. The EOFY sales have barely finished, but we’re already prepping for Amazon Prime Day 2025. The sale officially starts on July 8, but Amazon has already kicked off some…
The Download: Tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person tasked with monitoring someone who’s under the influence of a psychedelic—and sharing their experiences online. It’s a potent blend of two…
The Amazon Echo Spot drops to a record-low price for Prime Day
It’s still one week until Prime Day 2025 officially kicks off, but the sales are already here. There’s deals on some of our favorite products, like the TP-Link Deco AXE5400 WI-Fi mesh router system and the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K…
Astronomers discover a galaxy frozen in time for billions of years: ‘Fossil galaxies are like the dinosaurs of the universe’
Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that is a “cosmic fossil” which has remained “frozen in time” for billions of years. Just as dinosaur fossils here on Earth are used to probe the evolution of life, this cosmic fossil in the…
How to use a keyboard or numpad as a macropad in macOS
The Stream Deck is great for running macros on your Mac, but there are ways to do it significantly cheaper. Sometimes, all it takes is a spare keyboard or a secondary numpad. In the pursuit of productivity, users can turn…
Skipped EOFY? I’ve found 6 early Prime Day deals that drop expensive tech to under AU$100
We’ve made it through the first month of winter, but with July comes a new financial year – and the conclusion of EOFY sales. Well, in theory. There’s still more than 90 top deals available in our live EOFY deal coverage,…