Europe’s JUICE mission is on an eight-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, travelling deep into the solar system to study Jupiter and its icy, potentially habitable moons. A ground-based telescope recently caught a sneaky glimpse of the probe as it barreled through space. On Monday, Airbus Space released rare footage of the JUICE spacecraft, captured by the Airbus Robotic Telescope (ART) based in Spain. The telescope managed to spot the spacecraft during the early part of its journey, when it was around 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Its destination, the Jupiter system, is mo ..read more

Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha are following up on their agreement to standardize EV motorcycle batteries with a mad science experiment to develop hydrogen-powered motorcycles. Technically, the big four Japanese bike makers are starting a research group dubbed the “Hydrogen Small mobility and Engine technology,” or HySE for short, as Ride Apart reports. The research association isn’t only concerned with eventually making hydrogen-powered motorcycles, per se. As the official release from the big four specifies, the HySE is going to study and develop the use of hydrogen to power engines that ..read more

Get ready for Pixar to raise the bar in animation once again, this time taking audiences into a world where earth, wind, fire, and water live like people do. io9 recently visited Pixar Studios in Emeryville, CA, to take a tour of the campus and meet with the filmmakers behind Elemental. The latest film helmed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur) presents a meet-cute between fire and water, portrayed by Ember (Leah Lewis) and Wade (Mamoudou Athie), whose worlds collide when they fall in love and embark on an adventure to uncover how the barriers that kept them apart might be hiding a danger to the ..read more

The labour market is expected to drastically change over the next five years, according to a new report that projects overall employment growth will decrease by roughly 14 million jobs. World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs 2023 report finds that ever-changing technological advancements, especially AI, will shake up the workforce in the year ahead. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the media industry is forecast to be the most highly affected with a churn of 32% of its labour force as technology and artificial intelligence advances. Other affected positions include government officials, transportation ..read more

Cars or really any vehicle on land are not the only thing that needs to go electric. If we’re going to do better by the planet, everything we use, from the skies to the oceans, needs to be clean and sustainable. Much like the auto industry, watercraft have been undergoing a change toward electric power. And some automakers found an opportunity to profit on their already developed electrification technology to help. The latest water attraction was just revealed at the 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France and might be the most fancy boat in a German package out there. It’s ..read more

Twitter has been updated to allow for two-hour videos up to a maximum file size of 8GB – the latest perk that Elon Musk has made exclusive to Twitter Blue subscribers. Normal Twitter users are limited to just 512MB video uploads, with a maximum video length of two minutes and 20 seconds. Speaking from experience, this has always seemed like enough for Twitter, given that the site is text-based. Unlike Instagram or TikTok, visual content has never been the main attraction of the bird app. You can, of course, post photos, videos and GIFs, but these are secondary to the site’s main form of conten ..read more

Disney+ is reportedly removing Willow, a show that the streaming service debuted just last year, in a content-reviewing move similar to that employed by Warner Brothers in 2022, as reported by Deadline. Willow was released in November 2022 on Disney+ as a follow-up series to the movie of the same name released in 1988. The property originally belonged to Lucasfilm, but was sold to Disney in its acquisition of the company when it took control of the Star Wars IP. The series starred the same lead actor, Warwick Davis, and an all-new story. Deadline reported in March that the series creator ..read more

The season of massive mid-year shopping events has truly arrived and it looks like eBay is currently gearing up for another Plus Weekend. If you’re unfamiliar with it, eBay Plus Weekend is an annual sale event where you can score exclusive discounts across a huge range of products. While Plus Weekend doesn’t officially start until May 25, eBay is currently running a pre-event sale that includes up to 20 per cent off a range of tech and gaming. Of course, with so many deals to choose from, it can be hard to cherry-pick the best ones. That’s why we’ve rounded up the best tech deals from eBa ..read more

Exetel’s fastest NBN is now one of the cheapest options for ultrafast internet in Australia, thanks to a price drop and a timely promotion. Exetel’s Lightspeed NBN500 plan can now be had at an introductory price of $99 per month for the first six months. After that, you’ll be bumped up to the higher $119 per month. That standard rate now sits $10 below where it used to, and since it’s a no-contract plan you are free to shop around and look for a better if you don’t feel like sticking around once the honeymoon is over. This internet plan also includes a free 1-month subscription to Exetel’s Hom ..read more

Jeep purists and fans, we’re going to have to sit you down for a moment. You might not be entirely prepared for this news. But it’s happening. The age of six cylinders pumping pure gasoline to power your off-roading stallion, is coming to an end. Jeep CEO Christian Meunier confirmed to UK’s Auto Express that the next generation Wrangler will be an off-roading EV. OK, it’s not that much of a surprise. Jeep has been playing with going electric for a while now and the Wrangler 4xe was part of that toe-dipping experiment. But aside from a number of concepts we’ve seen from the brand, Meunier ..read more