The right time for a new era
When is the right time to do ‘the new thing’? Whatever that may be? I’m a big fan of using the New Year as a launching pad for new ideas, new goals, new efforts. It’s arbitrary, but our brains still really like latching onto milestones as starting or
Spams, scams and monolithic weirdness
This week we cover all our bases, with technology, games and weird digital culture debates all popping up in the final show for 2020.
Why I (still) love World of Warcraft
What changes about how you feel about a game when it shifts from being something you play for the gameplay? Is that when it's truly a hobby?
Xbox Series X competition: we have a winner!
The winner of our Xbox Series X competition has been drawn! Lights. Drumroll. Envelope. And the winner is...
Fighting the Unlightenment
By every measure, the future demands creativity. It demands a return to the raw pursuit of ideas. And supporting nerds in their pursuit of amazing innovations is fundamental to the problems we face.
Subscribing just to avoid the ads
The latest Byteside podcast features COVIDSafe spying audits, YouTube trying to win the music biz, and Shay on his Warcraft love.
Fleeting fingers and free photo farewells
Tweety fleets, Apple's M1 gets tested, NSW gets digital vouchers, and we've got a great recommendation for the speed cube lovers.
Faith in numbers
Criticism, skepticism, negativity. When the numbers start talking it's OK to start to get excited about what's really happening.
The Byteside Xbox Series X giveaway! Seriously!
We've got an Xbox Series X to giveaway to our fab Byteside readers. All the entry details are waiting right here so get on it!
Free as in anti-competitive
There's big questions in what it means for Google to offer free cloud photo storage and then take it away when the free service spoiled the market for paid competitors for so long.
Enforced temptation control?
Do school kids need some help resisting the temptation of the smartphone? Do the rest of us? Plus Apple, QR codes, Netflix Direct and more.
Hearthstone: Madness at the Darkmoon Faire roundtable
Highlights from a roundtable on the latest Hearthstone expansion, featuring Game Director Ben Lee and Game Designer John McIntyre.
Apple 'M1' Macs announced, claiming 3x to 5x faster than Intel
Today we see new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini models with Apple's new M1 chip. And they're bonkers fast.
Xbox Series X: the launch review
The best Xbox you've seen. A new benchmark. Stunningly familiar. But if you didn't get a pre-order? It's going to be fine to wait until 2021.
Deepfaking Trump with Harry Shearer
We speak to virtual production studio Mod's Michela Ledwidge about the tech that brought Harry Shearer's Donald Trump satire to freakish life.
Overanalysing the Xbox box
This is the extended, over hyped, over dramatic, over detailed Xbox Series X unboxing you have been waiting for.
The last Xbox
The demand for higher resolutions and faster refresh rates and more data throughput is cresting, creating the chance for smaller and smarter hardware in future, or even the potential for future mobile devices to bear the load instead of needing big boxes under our TVs.
We owned a bit of Quibi too?
This week we realise we're talking about two troubled apps the Australian government owned in whole or in part: COVIDSafe and Quibi.
Attention, distraction and Quibi
It will go down in history as one of the great failures of the digital age. Almost $2 billion spent on a Hollywood-backed, highly-polished, mobile-only, episodic streaming video service that will be long forgotten with no sense of loss whatsoever. We talked about Quibi on the Byteside podcast a lot
Prideful sharing
It’s been a crazy week and I’m genuinely sorry to say that I don’t have a column this week. I love writing these and your feedback is always thoughtful and insightful and helps me to keep building on the ideas I try to express here. It’s
