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Tech’s ‘improvements’ are making my life worse (and wetter)

The future is here, and it’s full of damp laundry and unsolicited AI.

  • Richard Glover

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It was a clever marketing ruse that made us think we needed to reach 10,000 steps a day.

Your step count is boring me to tears (and probably everyone else too)

Did you know the idea of walking 10,000 steps a day isn’t rooted in modern science at all?

  • Mali Waugh
Dictionary sites are overflowing with limbo words hoping to join the official lexicon.

Words keep coming and they don’t stop coming

Dictionary sites are overflowing with limbo words hoping to join the official lexicon.

  • David Astle
Yungblud: the 27-year-old, real name Dominic Harrison, has been a magnet for curiosity and controversy.

A pop-rock lightning rod returns, as polarising as ever

Yungblud’s new album is a Tarantino-esque pastiche of ’80s metal, ‘90s Britpop and ’00s emo. It works … sometimes.

  • Tom W. Clarke
Haim’s fourth album was made following lead singer/songwriter Danielle’s breakup from the band’s longtime producer Ariel Rechtstaid.

Thirty-something and newly single? Haim know exactly how you feel

On new album I Quit, the sister-trio embrace single life and sound positively dizzy about it.

  • Barry Divola
Billy Zane

‘He was like my little brother’: Billy Zane on Heath Ledger, Leonardo DiCaprio, and 40 years in Hollywood

The famous actor from all your favourite movies returns to Australia for the Supanova pop culture expo.

  • Robert Moran
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Ten new fiction and non-fiction books to add to your reading list

Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.

  • Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Legendary Hollywood executive Barry Diller in his suite at The Carlyle hotel in New York.

Billionaire Barry Diller - married to Diane von Fürstenberg - comes out in new memoir

The former CEO of Paramount Pictures reveals how he hid his sexuality, while also sharing his business acumen and revealing juicy Hollywood anecdotes.

  • Nathan Smith
Philosopher and author Slavoj Žižek.

Rock-star philosopher celebrates the joy of pessimism

Despite what he says is the upending of the neoliberal capitalist order, Slavoj Žižek is determined to avoid disappointment.

  • JP O'Malley
Poet and author Robbie Coburn.

A haunting tribute to the bonds between humans and animals

Poet Robbie Coburn’s verse novel explores the potential power of the relationship between horses and humans to transform a troubled life.

  • Candida Baker

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